I was always a little hesitant to accuse people of loading a bat to hit a ball farther. I was always very hesitant to approach people because I never had any evidence that I had firsthand knowledge of.

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.

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.

Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.

With negotiations, you never know what's going to happen.

Spring Training is a fun time for me.

The fact that somebody is reducing your salary is just telling me they're not satisfied with what you're doing.

At 7-1, your pitching has obviously controlled that other team. At 16-10, I'm not sure when it's safe.

I feel very fortunate to have broken in with the Milwaukee Braves organization.

It just feels good to beat the world champs to be the world champs.

I met Tiger Woods, and I looked in his eyes - and I saw Derek Jeter. They don't have to tell people they're good. They just prove it by the way they love the competition.

I can understand the fact you don't want the ball slipping out of a pitcher's hand because someone can get hurt.

That's the sign of a good relationship, when you can pick up a phone and it doesn't matter when the last time you spoke was.

When you're in a slump, you do something different, just to try it. I remember one time I was in a slump, and I borrowed one of Henry Aaron's bats and hit two homers. I used my own bats the next night. I just needed a change.

Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me.

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.

You can't win the Kentucky Derby unless you're on a thoroughbred.

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

It's huge. You win the first game of the series, you want to win the series.

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.

It's not easy to just say you don't want to do something any more.

I have great confidence in Rick Caruso's unique qualifications and his ability to lead a successful bid for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

I don't think there's any player that's more talented than Alex Rodriguez. He cares very deeply about doing well. Baseball is his life. He puts a lot of pressure on himself.

My wife accuses me - and she's probably right - that I'm sometimes oversensitive.

It's my job that if somebody wants to have a discussion about something, I'm certainly sensitive to that, and I'm willing to do it.

Home-plate collisions are something you cannot ignore.

People are proud of their players.

There's only one New York.

Sometimes they say the world rotates a little different for lefthanders.

It's nice to be in first place. But just because you're not on a winner doesn't mean you're a loser.

When you've been in the game as long as I have, you know the managers you've played for, the good ones and the bad ones. Even the good ones get fired.

Getting fired is what happens to a manager sooner or later.

We all have different ways to do things.

I'm a very private person, and I don't want to share stuff with anyone.

TV is not accurate.

Scott Boras, I've known for a long time. We were both in the Cardinals organization. I'm a lot older than Scott. He's a very tough man, very tough agent.

I've enjoyed my time in the American League, the fans of Southern California and other friendships.

Whatever sport you're looking at, it's usually the team that makes the least mistakes that has the most success.

I don't have a great deal of stress job-wise in my life, and that feels good.

I never concerned myself with other people's decisions.

To wind up in Cooperstown is surreal for me. To go into the Hall of Fame is one thing. When you think of all the other Yankees that are in here, it's pretty special. This is just a shrine. To visit it, much less be inducted, it's still sort of unbelievable to me.

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

If you do the best you can, you never have to look back.

You hear the word 'cancer,' it scares you. You think of death.

Umpires sometimes have a quick trigger.

I'm not very complicated.

If I intimidate people, that's not my intention.

I won't be managing the Mets. I am closing the door on managing the Mets and probably everybody else.

Chicago is a pretty good town.

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