David Cone is in a class by himself with three or four other players.

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.

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

To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

Our Faith will never be true unless it is united to that of St. Peter and the Pontiff, his successors.

To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table.

That gut-wrenching feeling of defeat I can still feel today. Losing and God are the two things that I fear. I fear no man

I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.

White is an attitude.

We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.

It's what's available to the poor communities. They do buy healthy stuff, you know, but the lettuce is usually iceberg lettuce and to get any taste, they have to use all that ranch dressing.