It was the class and dignity which he led his life that made him part of all of us. I will forever treasure the close friendship we shared over the years.
He says all the right things, like it's Jeter's team. I want to correct him on that - it's my team.
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.
Ruth was probably the greatest athlete to perform in any sport. Never has there been anybody like him.
We plan absentee ownership as far as running the Yankees is concerned.
I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so.
I won't be active in the day-to-day operations of the ball club at all.
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.
I'm pretty excited, this is a big, big one.
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.
Why would you want to stay manager and be second-guessed by me when you can come up into the front-office and be one of the second-guessers?
I haven't always made the right decisions.
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.
What happens is that all your life you operated businesses in such a way that you could one day afford to buy a baseball team. And then you buy the team and forget all the business practices that enabled you to buy it.
Let's not talk punishment.
We are the New York Yankees
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.
In the end, I'll put my good acts up against those of anybody in this country. Anybody.
I'll stick to building ships.
If you haven't got a hernia yet, you ain't pulling your share.
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'?
Once in a while, I played second base; once in a while, outfield. But those were just pickup games and softball leagues. So when I bought the Yankees, I tried to stay one pace ahead of the players.
