Top 23 Quotes by George Steinbrenner

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

I think about the next season right away.

As I've always said, the way New Yorkers back us we have to produce for them.

You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.

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

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'?

I'm really 95 percent Mr. Rogers, and only 5 percent Oscar the Grouch.'

I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be.

But why shouldn't I speak out? Don't you speak out in this country?

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.