George Steinbrenner forever changed baseball and hopefully someday we will see him honored in baseball's Hall of Fame as one of the great figures in the history of sports.
My relationship with George Steinbrenner was great. He was the boss, and I accepted that.
If I were sitting down with George Steinbrenner (to discuss a salary) and based on what Dave Winfield got for his statistics, I'd have to say, 'George, you and I are about to become partners.'
The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.
There is nobody that wants to win more than George Steinbrenner.
You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe.
I'm not going to tell you I know George W. Bush intimately. I'm not going to tell you we're best friends. I'll tell you I met him on a number of occasions. You know what? George W. Bush is a very nice guy. Very funny guy. His wife is a very nice woman; I thought she was a great first lady. George [W.] Bush was the worst president in the history of the United States of America... The issue is not Bernie Sanders. The issue is the Koch brothers. The issue is who owns America.
The reason I'm a Yankee is that George Steinbrenner out hustled everybody else.
I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.
I had the good fortune to call George Steinbrenner both partner and friend.
I never minded George Steinbrenner spending obscene amounts of money to put the best product on the field.
People don't own teams to lose money. If you ask any owner whether they would rather make $20 million and come in last place or lose $20 million and win a World Series, there's only one guy who honestly would take that championship: George Steinbrenner. Nobody else.
In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees.
For years, I advised George Steinbrenner to get out of town because he dishonored my hometown with his bullying and bombast.
I squirm when I see athletes praying before a game. Don't they realize that if God took sports seriously he never would have created George Steinbrenner.
I met the real George Steinbrenner on only one occasion when he actually came and played himself on an episode of 'Seinfeld.' He seemed to really enjoy himself. I did not get to know him, but the fact that he allowed himself and his beloved team to be satirized on our show is an indication to me of his true character.