Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together.
I think I'd like to be an owner of a Major League Baseball team.
To put on the pinstripe - it's extraordinary. Just being able to play one game with the Yankees is quite an honor.
I like the normal things of life: I like the Mets, and the Celtics, and the N.Y. Rangers. I like to watch C-Span; I love Costco.
I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time when I became identified with the Yankees, I was a strong National League rooter.
I can't remember a major league game where I could make eye contact with my dad. I kept wondering if he was going to yell at me for hanging a pitch or something.
More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
When there were just eight teams in each of the big leagues, I was always told, 'It's hard to come up, but it's just hard to stay in the big leagues.' That's because there's always somebody. The Cardinals had so many minor league clubs and had so many good ballplayers.
Just about every Latin American country has sent players to the big leagues, from the Dominican Republic to Costa Rica.
I knew I'd never make it back to the major leagues as a player. Lee MacPhail came to me and asked if I wanted to manage the Yankees' Fort Lauderdale club. I thought about it for a day or two and decided to take the job. That was the turning point. I knew it was what I wanted to do.
The Oakland A's, I loved all my teammates there. I loved all the coaches. They gave me the opportunity to play in the big leagues. And for that, I thank them. I mean it was a dream come true for me.
Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that's why they never hit any home runs. It's a safety issue.
When I first came in the league, I thought Jack Clark and Steve Garvey were big. Then all of sudden it seemed like everyone was that big.
I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.
Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.
When I played Little League, I looked up to the big leaguers, too, and collected their baseball cards.
The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two... the Yanks have four.
Baseball is what I always wanted to do with my life.
Major League Baseball is doing everything to make the game as clean as possible.
I'd like to get to the last game of the World Series at Wrigley Field and hit three homers. That was what I always wanted to do.
At the end of the day, I'm a huge baseball fan. I love the game.
I talk to people of different ages, and a guy who's 38 who says, 'I could've played Major League Baseball, but I had this knee injury...' Yeah, probably not. It's a big thing with men and sports, where they think they could have touched that thing.
There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.
To achieve success wasn't to get into the major leagues or have the best season in the world. The best success is to live your life the way God wants you to.
Baseball came before a lotta things in my life.
