I guess heaven needed a shortstop.

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?

Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared.

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

Being cool, having a 'cool' energy is just not attractive to me.

But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

If you want to avoid Alzheimer's disease, sleep 8 hours a night.

The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign.

My friends and family and team know who I am, and they have my back. So I don't let someone who doesn't know me affect me.

In contemplative prayer we seek to become the person we are called to be, not by thinking of God, but by being with God. Simply to be with God is to be drawn into being the person God calls us to be

Religious people are atheists about all other gods, atheists only take it one god further.