George Steinbrenner Quotes

The reason I'm a Yankee is that George Steinbrenner out hustled everybody else.

I became a major league manager in several cities and was discharged. We call it discharged because there was no question I had to leave.

I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets?

After you manage the Yankees for 12 years, it's really tough to envision going somewhere else. But then the Dodgers called.

The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.

Captain Huston and myself have spent over $200,000 in strengthening the Yankees since we purchased the club. We paid $37,500 for Frank Baker; we paid $25,000 for Lee Magee, and we have got rid of a young fortune on other players who couldn't deliver the goods. And we have had some of the most frightful luck I ever heard of.

I have the greatest job in the world. Only one person can have it. You have shortstops on other teams - I'm not knocking other teams - but there's only one shortstop on the Yankees.

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

I managed Dal Maxvill, and he's now our general manager. I managed Bob Gibson. He's a broadcaster. Tim McCarver. Bill White. Nellie Briles. He used to be a broadcaster. I tried to count them up one time.

I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.

I would like to own the Red Sox.

Ever since I got drafted by the Yankees, I've been working on my swing.

As a player you always feel the pressure and as a team you are always trying to make sure the opposition are under it.

I'd rather play for the Yankees. You get more money.

It will revolutionize baseball. It will open a new area of alibis for the players.

It is hard to ignore that is reality. But, at the same time, it still comes down to sound baseball decisions, farm systems and then execution on the field by the players. There are a lot of components to that (other) than just saying it is the highest salary.

We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds.

Enos Cabell started out here with the Astros, and before that he was with the Orioles.

Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play.

He pitches better when he's mad, so I try to make him that way.

I played Little League and in high school. I played more over the years whenever there was a pick-up game... usually softball.

The more you know about your opponents, the more you learn how to beat them. Where the holes open to run through, blocking schemes, even down to player tendencies and what hand they like to carry the ball with.

Managers are never 100 percent in control. You're at the mercy of the players. When you're a player, you're driving. I'm the navigator. I hardly ever think about driving anymore, unless there's two out in the bottom of the ninth.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.

I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game, I had control of the ball. As a coach you sort of put the ball in other player's hands and let them make decisions for you. But I still get a kick out of winning basketball games and that's what I'm in this for.