George Steinbrenner forever changed baseball and hopefully someday we will see him honored in baseball's Hall of Fame as one of the great figures in the history of sports.
For years, I advised George Steinbrenner to get out of town because he dishonored my hometown with his bullying and bombast.
I squirm when I see athletes praying before a game. Don't they realize that if God took sports seriously he never would have created George Steinbrenner.
I had the good fortune to call George Steinbrenner both partner and friend.
The reason I'm a Yankee is that George Steinbrenner out hustled everybody else.
I never minded George Steinbrenner spending obscene amounts of money to put the best product on the field.
If I were playing today I'd do what Joe DiMaggio said. I'd go knock on the door at Yankee Stadium and when George Steinbrenner answered I'd say, 'Howdy, pardner.'
Baseball will miss Steinbrenner. He did a lot of great things-and some not so great-but it's a sad day for baseball, no doubt about it. He was a winner, and he made the Yankees a winner.
There is nobody that wants to win more than George Steinbrenner.
I met the real George Steinbrenner on only one occasion when he actually came and played himself on an episode of 'Seinfeld.' He seemed to really enjoy himself. I did not get to know him, but the fact that he allowed himself and his beloved team to be satirized on our show is an indication to me of his true character.
He's (George Steinbrenner) the one who gave me a chance to get to the World Series. This is where I wanted to be all along. We had a couple of nice offers from other teams, but I tied my agents' hands. I told them I wanted to be a Yankee.
I was a Yankee fan until 1981. That was the year the Yankees were two up on the Dodgers and lost four straight. And George Steinbrenner apologized to the city.
You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe.
The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.
In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees.
If I were sitting down with George Steinbrenner (to discuss a salary) and based on what Dave Winfield got for his statistics, I'd have to say, 'George, you and I are about to become partners.'
If you make a certain type of statement, you can make a pretty good prediction of how George Steinbrenner will react.
I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.
