I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.

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

As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because you either loved them or you hated them.

We can learn from past failures and mistakes, but we shouldn't get stuck there. We can keep future goals in mind, but we shouldn't get stuck there, either. The only way to reach our potential is to focus on what we must do now - this moment, this day - to perform effectively and win.

A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished.

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

The game itself is an autonomous game, but everybody is a part of it. No contribution is too small.