Once you realize how good you really are, you never settle for playing less than your best.

People think I hate Billy Martin. I don't. I hate some of the things he did. And I will say I don't understand him. Billy Martin is not an intellectual, but there is a cunningness to him that is something to behold.

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium.

I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.

I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money.

I'm the straw that stirs the drink.