Are you kidding me? I wouldn't root for the Yankees if they were playing Poland.

Why wouldn't I root for the Mets? ... I want them to win the same way I want the Yankees to win. I want them to play each other [in the World Series], just like the old days when we played the Dodgers every year. Anyone who lives around here should want that.

I learned that some of our inexperienced players were playing at one speed below what some of their players were playing at, ... Probably about a half dozen of them.

That may have been true in the '50s. But if I'm playing against the Yankees and they say, 'You can take one guy off their team so he can't play against you,' well, then, it's going to be Mariano Rivera who won't play.

You want to give the audience the feeling this is the only game the Yankees and Red Sox are playing this year, ... that this is the only game that matters.

I was fine with Quincy. I just think that (signing Price) is a little bit better recourse.