George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
running yankees ownership
We plan absentee ownership as far as running the Yankees is concerned.
father yankees fans
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.
baseball horse odds
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.
new-york yankees new-york-yankees
We are the New York Yankees
winning breathing next
Breathing first, winning next.
hands way used
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.
baseball team practice
What happens is that all your life you operated businesses in such a way that you could one day afford to buy a baseball team. And then you buy the team and forget all the business practices that enabled you to buy it.
football mean winning
Winning means everything...You show me a good loser and I'll show a loser.
winning breathing guy
I'm not a win at all costs guy. Winning isn't everything. It's second to breathing
men names guy
The name Derek Jeter is made for stardom. He's got an infectious smile, and he's so handsome and well-behaved. He's just a fine young man who does everything right. He's like Jack Armstrong and Frank Merriwell, guys I grew up rooting for. Some guys come along who just measure up.
country speaks-out speak
But why shouldn't I speak out? Don't you speak out in this country?
yankees ships sticks
I'll stick to building ships.
team yankees want
He says all the right things, like it's Jeter's team. I want to correct him on that - it's my team.
yankees clubs balls
I won't be active in the day-to-day operations of the ball club at all.