Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa.

I'm really 95 percent Mr. Rogers, and only 5 percent Oscar the Grouch.'

I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried.

In the end, I'll put my good acts up against those of anybody in this country. Anybody.

Let's not talk punishment.

But why shouldn't I speak out? Don't you speak out in this country?

I haven't always made the right decisions.

We plan absentee ownership as far as running the Yankees is concerned.

As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased.

Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa.

I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so.

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be.

As I've always said, the way New Yorkers back us we have to produce for them.

I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'?

Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.

People keep coming up to me and asking, 'How does it feel to be banned for life?' Banned for life. I wasn't banned for life. There was never a word of suspension, probation or ban in that agreement. It was never meant to be part of it.

I think about the next season right away.

Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance.

Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge.

I will never have a heart attack. I give them.

I am tough. Sometimes I'm unreasonable. I have to catch myself every once in a while.

Ruth was probably the greatest athlete to perform in any sport. Never has there been anybody like him.

You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.

Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.

I believe in metaphysics. I don't believe in God because I think that is a human simplification of the things we can't explain. But I believe in a greater universe.

There were a couple of years where I was skating and acting at the same time.

I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.

After a storm comes a calm.

In the Fall of 1774 & Winter of 1775, I was one of upwards of thirty, chiefly mechanics, who formed ourselves into a committee for the purpose of watching the movements of the British soldiers, and gaining every intelligence of the movements of the Tories.

Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.

If you have urgent current expenses to cover, then future priorities like college and retirement fall off your radar because they are simply less pressing. Scarcity of attention prevents us from seeing what's really important. The psychology of scarcity engrosses us in only our present needs.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

When your identity is found in Christ, your identity never changes. You are always a child of God.

The reason there is no noblesse oblige about Dubya is because he doesn't admit to himself or anyone else that he owes his entire life to being named George W. Bush. He didn't just get a head start by being his father's son - it remained the single most salient fact about him for most of his life.

Worship is the communitys cult in its purest most inward most subjective form a cult in which objectivity is as it were consumed and digested while the objective content now stripped of its objectivity has become a possession of mind and feeling.

Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.

The chief characteristic of 'The Tribune' under Greeley was an aggressive and even ostentatious purity. 'Immoral and degrading police reports,' and any notices of the existence of the theater, whether in news or advertising, were at first scrupulously excluded.

You're as strong as the actors you're working with, your partners.

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.

There will always be a certain element of extremists on either side, left or right, who no mainstream news outlet is going to satisfy.

I think I'm probably a monster-of-the-week guy, and that comes back down to my old favorite show, which as a kid was always 'Scooby-Doo.'

Korea is an open society and we will make sure that there is no restriction on foreign investment in Korea.

You can look at that by comparing Medicare's growth rates to the private insurance world, to the other Federal programs that we run, by looking at the billions of dollars, not millions but billions of dollars, we waste every year.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

I like sundresses with cowboy boots, little shorts with big wedge heels and a big piece of turquoise. I also love classic, Old Hollywood romantic styles. I'm 'country girl meets city girl' circa 1930.

Shamanic healing is a journey. It involves stepping out of our habitual roles, our conventional scripts, and improvising a dancing path.

If you want to be right-sized in body, you've got to get rid of the supersize way of life.