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.

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

When I was a teenager and my brother Frank was in the World Series in '57 and '58 against the Yankees, Braves winning in '57 and the Yankees in '58, little did I know the next time these two teams would meet in the World Series, I would be managing the Yankees.

Baseball is a game of life. It's not perfect, but it feels like it is.

I have no problem with cheating. Whatever you can get away with.

It just feels good to beat the world champs to be the world champs.

I'm a very private person, and I don't want to share stuff with anyone.