"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."
"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."
"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."
"You're always in the storm's eye, so to speak, when you're with the Yankees."
"That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest."
"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."
"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."
"I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell."
"My wife accuses me - and she's probably right - that I'm sometimes oversensitive."
"After you manage the Yankees for 12 years, it's really tough to envision going somewhere else. But then the Dodgers called."
"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."
"There is no worse emotion than fear."
"Home-plate collisions are something you cannot ignore."
"As a supporter of the Prostate Cancer Foundation and their Home Run Challenge program, I am extremely grateful for the valuable partnerships and relationships built with Major League Baseball and our affiliates."
"Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever."
"People are proud of their players."
"By rule, the decision to reverse a call by use of instant replay is at the sole discretion of the crew chief."
"Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes."
"First of all, you want umpires to call what they see. In the case of fair or foul, the smartest thing is to call the ball fair. Because if it's called foul and ruled fair, where do we put the runners?"
"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."
"I have no problem with cheating. Whatever you can get away with."
"Golf is the only game I know where you call a foul on yourself."
"As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because... you either loved them or you hated them."
"It's not easy to just say you don't want to do something any more."
