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.

When we lost I couldn't sleep at night. When we win I can't sleep at night. But when you win, you wake up feeling better

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.

You get to the big leagues, and you think, 'Can I do this stuff?' Then you take the first pitch down the middle for Strike 1, and you think, 'I could have hit that.'

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.

Kids are much more intuitive these days. Not that I'm crazy about what's on TV, but they know so much these days.