Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.
We've got to decide, how much replay do we want? Because if you start doing it from the first inning to the ninth inning, you may have to time the game with a calendar.
Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an anxiety.
You can't win the Kentucky Derby unless you're on a thoroughbred.
I felt there was a lot of love in my house. And my mom was, you know, the basis of all that.
You have to fix something when it first appears.
Respect is the word I want. You have to earn it. You give, and you get it in return, that's how I see it.
Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.
Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.
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.
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.
Kids are much more intuitive these days. Not that I'm crazy about what's on TV, but they know so much these days.
Golf is the only game I know where you call a foul on yourself.
It's huge. You win the first game of the series, you want to win the series.
Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.
It's something you hope doesn't happen. When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.
Even though I was never a Yankee fan until I put on the uniform, when you think about the deep history of this organization, you always knew what the Yankees represented.
It's not easy to just say you don't want to do something any more.
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 became the manager of the New York Yankees, it was an opportunity to realize my lifelong dream of winning the World Series. We were fortunate enough to succeed in our first season in 1996, and in the years that followed, we wrote some great new chapters in Yankee history.
