I believe anybody who is not afraid to fail is a winner.
— Joe Torre
Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result.
The Dodgers to me are the Yankees of the National League.
I think there's more of opportunity to win games in the National League than the American League because there are more decisions to make.
When you take a job, you don't just accept the pats on the back. You have to accept the kicks in the pants.
One thing you have to realize is that cancer is not something you necessarily cure, but you want to just take care of yourself and extend your life as long as you can.
There's nothing that can replace the feeling of winning.
I think that winning creates chemistry, as opposed to other way around. I've been on a lot of friendly teams that couldn't win, trust me.
I won't be managing the Mets. I am closing the door on managing the Mets and probably everybody else.
Umpires sometimes have a quick trigger.
'Million Dollar Arm' touches on many of the Safe At Home Foundation's core values, such as children, teamwork and family.
If you do the best you can, you never have to look back.
I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.
I never concerned myself with other people's decisions.
You can't win the Kentucky Derby unless you're on a thoroughbred.
Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me.
Kids are much more intuitive these days. Not that I'm crazy about what's on TV, but they know so much these days.
As a member of a competitive team, you want to make sure you have yourself ready to play. You don't control anything but what you do.
I think that I have a sensitivity toward people, and that is a strength.
Spring Training is a fun time for me.
When I was 16 years old, my brother Frank said, 'You'd better become a catcher, because you're too big and fat to do anything else.' Well, I took his advice. It was a quick way to get to the big leagues, and I've never regretted it.
My relationship with George Steinbrenner was great. He was the boss, and I accepted that.
You know, Mike Milken, the money that he has raised for cancer research has been remarkable.
In regards to steroids, I think we're all to blame, all of baseball. I never realized how far-reaching this problem has been.
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.
If I intimidate people, that's not my intention.
We've beat up our umpires. They're now allowed to be human.
You hear the word 'cancer,' it scares you. You think of death.
I've been very, very fortunate. I never had to work for a living.
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.
You could have the bases loaded, and you bring up the best pinch-hitter in the world to pinch hit, he hits into a double play, and then all of a sudden: 'How could you do that?'
Whatever sport you're looking at, it's usually the team that makes the least mistakes that has the most success.
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.
My father wasn't the best role model to me.
There will be a time when everyone on the team is going to contribute to winning a pennant.
It's nice to have writers write nice things about you and guys on radio and TV say nice things about you, but the guy who's in the locker next to you is the one you play the game for.
If a club is winning, you never pay attention to a guy who's 0-for-10. If a club is losing, all of a sudden you'll find that he's the main reason why you're losing, which is absurd for me.
I knew what the Dodgers uniform represented as a kid growing up in Brooklyn.
I felt there was a lot of love in my house. And my mom was, you know, the basis of all that.
Chicago is a pretty good town.
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.
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.
I'm not very complicated.
I just don't like to dwell on stuff.
The fact that somebody is reducing your salary is just telling me they're not satisfied with what you're doing.
Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.
Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.
I don't have a great deal of stress job-wise in my life, and that feels good.
When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad's car in the driveway, I would go to a friend's house. I connected my dad being there with fear.
I can understand the fact you don't want the ball slipping out of a pitcher's hand because someone can get hurt.
