Quotes About Leadership

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

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?

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

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.

I will take a draft to the Yankees or to the Mets. A draft for president is not conceivable.

You're always in the storm's eye, so to speak, when you're with the Yankees.

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

Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.

At the end of the day, what people will give credit for is how Octobers turn out. That's how it works for Yankees managers.

By the time I was twelve, I had started my own theater company and was doing plays in the backyard and the front yard and all over the neighborhood, so, you know, I was definitely a lifer even back when I was 10.

Heaving up a blind pass to maybe pick up 10 yards, rather than throwing the ball away - I can't do that.

I think you can't have swagger when you're giving up 30 points or four- or five-hundred yards.

I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.

If you go 90 yards in a hundred-yard race, you come last. Usain Bolt slows down for the last half a yard, but for 99 yards, he is that far ahead that he can. In our business, you can't be far enough ahead. It is such a competitive marketplace.

I want to lead the league in yards, touchdowns, basically about everything a receiver can do.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals.

I have my own office, and I'm there during the evenings and weekends. But during the week, I'm sitting in the middle of my studio, talking with everybody, deciding together every detail, every pallette, every yarn, every colour.

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

Learn computer science. It's extraordinarily helpful. I like recommending learning economics as well so they think in terms of business, they have rational frameworks for looking at the world, but yeah, computer science is an amazing way to get into, even if you want to be CEO, having a tech background is helpful.

Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.

So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that he can say, 'oh yeah - that's a great point.' And you never know; often you can help far more than you think you can, because there's so much more that he's juggling than an actor.

One of the reasons I wear No. 2 is because of him. Yeah, he was ultimate team guy. He was a winner. And just a good guy for a kid to look up to. And I always pretended to be Jeter.

Yeah, I think that his great creation was not any one product but a company in which creativity was connected to great engineering. And that will survive at least while the current people who trained under Steve are there.