These messages that we are sending our kids and the kind of lives people lead today so superficial it seems, just a lot of phony stuff. What does it mean when you really stop and think about it's kind of stupid.

The game of baseball is a game of failure because it's so difficult to play. A 300 hitter, a superstar fails seven out of ten times at the plate. So what does that tell you about the game and its difficulty?

There is nobody that wants to win more than George Steinbrenner.

Every life lesson is on that baseball field.

Baseball as I have said before to many... many parents it's not about wins and losses. It's about the life lessons that are learned on that baseball field. The perseverance, the hard work that it takes, dealing with failure.

I had set the standard for my style of relief pitching so high that when I came back to the rest of the pack, everybody said I was done.

I'd like to be remembered for the way I went about doing my job.