When you take a job, you don't just accept the pats on the back. You have to accept the kicks in the pants.

...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.

Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result.

My 12 years in New York were very, very special, the fans were very special, and it's something I will take with me wherever I go and into retirement.

You could have the bases loaded, and you bring up the best pinch-hitter in the world to pinch hit, he hits into a double play, and then all of a sudden: 'How could you do that?'

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.

I've been very, very fortunate. I never had to work for a living.