You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.

Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.

Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance.

Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa.

I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried.

Winning means everything...You show me a good loser and I'll show a loser.

I will never have a heart attack. I give them.

Second place is really the first loser.

He's the leader on this team, I know when Baltimore let us have him, they thought they were giving us a problem. I'll take problems like that anytime.

But why shouldn't I speak out? Don't you speak out in this country?

My best and worst boss was the same man - my father. He never - and I mean never - took 'I can't' for an answer. He taught me the value system that, to this day, I have continued to practice.

There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.

By the power of the Tri-Force, I command you to "-------

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.

I drink a ton of water. And I never go to bed too full.

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.

You will understand why when you look back, the answers are rarely given in the middle of the lesson.

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.