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Vote:   | Anything Sinatra does. |
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Vote: | As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased. |
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Vote: | Bill Gallo is a friend of mine; I like him very much. He whacks me-I love 'General Steingrabber.' I take it with a sense of humor. I think it's fun, it's funny. He can be tough, but he's fair, and I consider him a friend. |
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Vote: | But why shouldn't I speak out? Don't you speak out in this country? |
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Vote: | Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance. |
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Vote: | Drabek I did have something to do with. Definitely a mistake. He's the Cy Young winner. But who knew that five years ago? |
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Vote: | First of all, remember that Bowie Kuhn was the commissioner who fined me many of those times. Holier-than-thou, sanctimonious Bowie Kuhn - the epitome of integrity! Bowie Kuhn was looking for reasons to get me. |
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Vote: | He said he'd been with NBC Sports, and that he was with the Winfield Foundation. |
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Vote: | He was the type of man who never worked for you. He was your father. I never went in and said, 'Dad, do this' or 'Do that.' I'd go in and say, 'Dad, what do you think about this? What can we do?' I really needed him. |
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Vote: | I don't believe I gave Lou enough of a chance, OK? He was going to be a good manager, he is a good manager with Cincinnati, and he's a great person. But I think he learned from his experience with me, too. And I think he would tell you that. |
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Vote: | I don't know much about Jose Canseco. I've heard the accusations that he used steroids, but I can't comment on that. He's awesome, though. |
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Vote: | I don't say I'm Saint George. And I don't think that's the image I have. I'm a strong-image boss. The problem is, the press generally wanted to create only that image of me; they nail you on the first strike and you're out. They don't look at the good stuff. |
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Vote: | I don't think I ever could exceed my father's successes. He was a completely satisfied man, he knew what he wanted to accomplish and he accomplished it. I did do a lot, though, to try to please him. |
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Vote: | I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'? |
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Vote: | I don't want to rehash that. I liked Yogi very much, always did like him, will always like him. |
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Vote: | I had coached baseball in the Air Force, but I was principally a football coach and track man. I did play sand-lot baseball but never varsity. |
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Vote: | I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried. |
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Vote: | I haven't always made the right decisions. |
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Vote: | I hope that my father would have been proud of me, but you never know. I don't look back and think about how he would judge me. He was very happy when I bought the Yankees, and he very much enjoyed being a part of it. |
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Vote: | I like Davey Johnson as a manager. He did great things for the Mets; he manages with his own style. |
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Vote: | I like Tchaikovsky as much as the next guy, but in this area I think people would rather hear pops concerts, and good ones. |
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Vote: | I never called a manager in the dugout to dictate who should play or to say that he'd made a mistake. |
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Vote: | I never should have let Reggie Jackson go; letting him get away was a bad deal. Someday, I'll speak about how that happened, but I don't want to right now. It was nothing between Reggie and me or Reggie and the ball club. It was an outside situation that occurred. |
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Vote: | I still go to the office every day. I can't say that I have actually slowed down very much. I'm actually in the best shape that I have been in for a very long time. |
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Vote: | I think about the next season right away. |
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Vote: | I think that a hands-on approach is very important. You have to know your ballplayers, and who has the ability and the intense hunger and drive to win. |
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Vote: | I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so. |
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Vote: | I went out and bought a ship called La Belle and told all the creditors, 'You'll have to wait, but if you do, you're not going to get just five cents or ten cents on the dollar, you're going to get a hundred cents on the dollar.' And I took La Belle's earnings and did pay off every one of those debts. |
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Vote: | I'm a businessman! Any time a guy tells me that something I'm putting three hundred thousand dollars a year into is possibly being ripped off-and I'd always had those suspicions, anyway-I want to know. And I defy any businessman to tell you that isn't good practice. It's perfectly legal. |
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Vote: | I'm really 95 percent Mr. Rogers, and only 5 percent Oscar the Grouch.' |
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Vote: | I'm so respectful that President Reagan gave me a pardon. I had applied several times, and finally he did it. President Carter didn't see fit to, but President Reagan did. |
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Vote: | I'm tired of 'informed sources'; I'm tired of 'sources close to the Yankees.' |
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Vote: | I'm very happy. Satisfied, let's say. |
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Vote: | If I was in Utopia? I don't know. I might for a while, until one of my sons was ready. It's time, though, for the young man to come on. The old man's tired. |
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Vote: | In sports, you've got to be truthful, you've got to face your performance. And the truth is, Reggie always delivered in the World Series. Mr. October. Dave didn't. That doesn't mean Dave is a bad guy. He just didn't deliver. |
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Vote: | In the end, I'll put my good acts up against those of anybody in this country. Anybody. |
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Vote: | Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge. |
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Vote: | It sells newspapers when Steinbrenner fires Billy but not when Steinbrenner keeps Billy on his payroll for life, brings him back each time, tries to help him get himself going. I know that sometimes I make mistakes; I'm dead wrong. But then I go back and try to make it right. |
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Vote: | It's too bad about Yogi. I like Yogi very much. Nice person. Fine person. |
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Vote: | Let me ask you something Do you think Dave Winfield was liked by his teammates? You're nuts, if that's what you think. |
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Vote: | Let me tell you what they don't know I didn't even stay. When they started the 'Steinbrenner sucks,' I said, 'Come on, let's go, let's get out of here.' I got in the car, went back into town and went to dinner. See how wrong they are? I didn't convene the coaches that night. |
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Vote: | Let's not talk punishment. |
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Vote: | Look, I'm not saying that I'm a calm, peaceful guy. I'm not Marian the Librarian. I'm a hard-driving guy, and sometimes I get upset. |
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Vote: | Lots of people go to ball games to see players like Jackson. Those guys are more apt to put asses in the seats-fannies in the seats-than the newcomers. |
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Vote: | Lou Piniella and I were, perhaps, too close. He was too much like a son. Look at the way he continually says, 'I had to show George I could manage, I had to show the boss.' That makes me feel good. It's like a left-handed compliment, a show of respect. 'I want to prove to the guy that I can do it.' Like you would with your dad. |
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Vote: | My goal is not to run the team again. All I want to do is see the truth come out. |
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Vote: | Nobody has won as many games as we have in the past seventeen years. |
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Vote: | Of course, another question is why women's tennis and golf don't allow men in the locker room. They don't allow anybody in the locker room, because they don't want to be faced with that problem. I'd like to be the first male reporter who tries to get into the women's-tennis locker room. |
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Vote: | Of course, expansion does water down your talent a little bit. |
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Vote: | Oh, I loved my father. He was a tough boss, a tough guy, a tough businessman. He was a difficult perfectionist, in a way, who always sought excellence. And he so often achieved it that it put added pressure on the kids. Of course, being the only son, a lot of that pressure fell on me. He was very demanding and he left an indelible mark on me. |
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Vote: | Once in a while, I played second base; once in a while, outfield. But those were just pickup games and softball leagues. So when I bought the Yankees, I tried to stay one pace ahead of the players. |
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Vote: | Our batting coach, Charley Lau, had been telling me that Reggie was done, and the only thing I said-and I have sworn affidavits-was, 'How can you tell me a guy's done, then he comes back in and buries us?' But no tirade at all. |
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Vote: | People keep coming up to me and asking, 'How does it feel to be banned for life?' Banned for life. I wasn't banned for life. There was never a word of suspension, probation or ban in that agreement. It was never meant to be part of it. |
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Vote: | Plus five division championships, four American League pennants, two World Series victories and the best won-lost percentage in baseball in the Eighties. |
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Vote: | So this is the reason I don't care when people write that I was picking on Dave. I wasn't picking on Dave the ballplayer, I was picking on Dave and his agent and a foundation where funds were, in my opinion, totally, seriously misused. |
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Vote: | Some people are now asking me the same thing about the Dodgers' signing Darryl Strawberry. Let me say this The Dodgers are a smart organization; I think they know what they're doing with Strawberry. It was probably a good move for them, though I'm sorry to see New York lose Darryl. |
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Vote: | Some people say that I feel bad over what happened with Dick and that I may have played a part in it. Maybe yes, but I really cared for him and I care for her. She's lovely people. And it was a tragic loss for baseball. He was a courageous, good guy. OK, that's Howser. |
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Vote: | Sportswriters have to create sensationalism to sell their damn books. You can't sell a book unless you stretch a point. If it doesn't make Steinbrenner out to be a big ogre - if it makes him a nice guy - they don't want that, because it doesn't sell. |
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Vote: | That's why we created that special day for catchers. We wanted him to come back, but he didn't. I can't change that. He knows how I feel. I've sent numerous emissaries to him. |
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Vote: | The spirit of the agreement was that it wasn't supposed to be a ban. But within ten minutes of the time we signed it, Fay Vincent said, 'It is a permanent suspension.' That's a lie! The man lied! |
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Vote: | There are things that have never come out on Watergate that someday will come out. |
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Vote: | There was a period when Bob Lemon lost his son-a tragic jeep accident, I believe. He had two sons, and they were so close. I didn't see fit to put Lem through that rat-race. I could see that it was affecting him in spring training. We all saw it. He wasn't the same Lemon because of that. |
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Vote: | They sat at a table in Montreal with me, and a top official - whom I won't name - said, 'You're making a mistake, because he'll always blame management and the front office. That's what he did here in Chicago.' He didn't leave his managing job in Philly under the best of terms, either. |
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Vote: | This S.I. article was devastating, yet all the commissioner has said is that it was irrelevant and that the magazine was being used. Now, Sports Illustrated is not one of George Steinbrener's friends - they've taken good chunks out of me - but they've brought up an awful lot of charges that the commissioner is going to have to answer. |
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Vote: | To make himself look all powerful, like he had stamped me down and humiliated me. I wanted to announce the agreement jointly with him at the press conference, but he didn't want to do that. He wanted a different twist. Of course, the agreement also says that I'm not supposed to talk about these things. |
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Vote: | Tommy Lasorda; I'll tell you another great manager. Great manager. Great for the game. That's the important thing about Lasorda He's tremendous for the game-a living ambassador. He lives, eats, drinks and sleeps baseball. And he sells baseball, too. |
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Vote: | We chose to go within our own organization, though I think Davey would certainly have to be high on anybody's candidate list. |
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Vote: | We plan absentee ownership as far as running the Yankees is concerned. |
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Vote: | Well, things started to pop up that led me to believe that it wasn't being operated for the purpose that it was supposed to be to benefit kids in New York. We had reason to believe that the money was being spent in ways that were ludicrous by any standards of a charitable foundation. |
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Vote: | Well, you can't always talk to the press. One of the things you people in the media do is take things out of context. The press loves to do that. To me, that's a violation of trust. I'll say a sentence and they'll pick four words and make it sound like they want it to sound. It happens over and over again. |
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Vote: | What happened? My lawyers have that information. On their advice, I have never talked about it, and I don't intend to. Things were done, settlements were made, and that's all there is to it. I'm not going to talk about it. |
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Vote: | What strikes me about the Sports Illustrated article is how they insist they stand by their story. As if they're inviting someone to come out and challenge them. Pretty soon, somebody's got to say, 'Commissioner, did you or did you not know all of this? And, if so, why didn't you do something about it?' |
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Vote: | When I bought the Yankees, my father had a real sense of pride. Hell, he was all over the place in the Seventies when the Yankees started winning. And certainly, when we won that first championship in '77-that was one of the high points of his life. He told me that. |
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Vote: | When I was younger, I was a bit impatient and I made a few moves and decisions that in retrospect I shouldn't have made. But I have tried to go back and rectify those moves and mistakes. |
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Vote: | When you do something good for somebody and more than two people know about it, you didn't do it for the right reason. Last summer, for example, I gave ten thousand dollars that was needed to keep a playground running. At the time, I told them absolutely no publicity. But I've been taking so much lambasting lately that I don't care who knows now. |
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Vote: | When you're talking on the phone, you don't say every single word. I don't know what that conversation was. I said, 'I'll listen to what you've got to say.' |
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Vote: | Why do you think Darryl Strawberry left New York? Come on! The media drove him out. He's one of the great ballplayers playing the game today and he left New York because he was fed up. And I don't blame him. |
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Vote: | You commit a crime when you make an illegal contribution. I was one of many. I won't even dwell on it. It was an old law, an antiquated law. I got some very poor advice. And that's all I'm going to say. |
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Vote: | You know, I'm sixty years old. I'm getting up there. I want to start to enjoy my life a little. I wasn't going to stay on as general partner forever; seventeen and a half years is a long time battling the media and everything else. Of course, I'm not saying that I wouldn't like to be exonerated and see this whole thing resolved. |
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Vote: | You've got media that don't like George Steinbrener, but why aren't they looking into some of these things? Reporters like Murray Chass of the Times, who say they're so holy and cover all the news that's fit to print-why don't the Murray Chasses out there make Fay Vincent answer some of those questions raised by Sports Illustrated? |