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

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

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes there is no time to wait for the sea to calm down! If you have to reach your target, let your voyage start and let the storm be your path!

Bittersweet: it's what life tastes like. And if you can handle the bitter, the sweet will come later. ~ Klyde, in Piranhas Like S'mores.

I am a big popcorn fanatic. I love popcorn. In fact one year for my birthday, my husband bought me one of those big popcorn machines like they have in movie theaters.

We would like to have a great future, so we need to think about the urban philosophy, the urban problems, and the construction of the city. That's the new politics, maybe.

A glittering disco ball spins from the ceiling, but the music is something I've never heard, discordant and haunting and insistent, the kind of music that demands you dance.

If you raise taxes during a recession, you head to depression.

The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16.

No. But I understand her. Life makes people what they are.

The cool part about New York is that you can do that. You can talk to all the people you admire.

Being too early is indistinguishable from being wrong.