Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.

...in my book success and winning are not always the same thing. To me, success is playing - or working - to the best of your ability.

The second you think you've arrived, someone passes you. You have to always be in pursuit.

Even though I was never a Yankee fan until I put on the uniform, when you think about the deep history of this organization, you always knew what the Yankees represented.

The fact that somebody is reducing your salary is just telling me they're not satisfied with what you're doing.

Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.

Getting fired is what happens to a manager sooner or later.