When I was a player and hit into a double play, I felt as if I was letting everyone down.

It's my job that if somebody wants to have a discussion about something, I'm certainly sensitive to that, and I'm willing to do it.

One win­ter, when I was 12, my older brother Frank (20) said to my father, 'We want you out of the house. We don't want any­thing other than the house we live in. We don't want any­thing from you. Just leave.' And he left.

Whatever sport you're looking at, it's usually the team that makes the least mistakes that has the most success.

After you manage the Yankees for 12 years, it's really tough to envision going somewhere else. But then the Dodgers called.

Sometimes they say the world rotates a little different for lefthanders.

Not that managing in the American League is easy, but this is certainly different. I'll have to have somebody poke me in the rear end when I have a pitcher that's going to hit.