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George Steinbrenner
Age: 80 †
Born: 1930
Born: July 4
Died: 2010
Died: July 13
Athletics Competitor
Businessman
Businessperson
Entrepreneur
Investor
Rocky River
Ohio
George Michael Steinbrenner III
Fats
Toad
Toads
Yankees

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I won't be active in the day-to-day operations of the ball club at all.
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I'll stick to building ships.
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I'm pretty excited, this is a big, big one.
George Steinbrenner
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But why shouldn't I speak out? Don't you speak out in this country?
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He's the leader on this team, I know when Baltimore let us have him, they thought they were giving us a problem. I'll take problems like that anytime.
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I'm not a win at all costs guy. Winning isn't everything. It's second to breathing.
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Let's not talk punishment.
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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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David Cone is in a class by himself with three or four other players.
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I will never have a heart attack. I give them.
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I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be.
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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.
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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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Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa.
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I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so.
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We are the New York Yankees
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I used to be very hands-on, but lately I've been more hands-off and I plan to become more hands-on and less hands-off and hope that hands-on will become better than hands-off, the way hands-on used to be.
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I guess heaven needed a shortstop.
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Second place is really the first loser.
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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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