He Said, She Said

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George Steinbrenner via Howard Rubenstein

“George Steinbrenner is traveling back to his home in Tampa and will have no statement at this time.”

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Hank Steinbrenner

"Well, (Torre's) record speaks for itself," Hank said. "But nothing lasts forever; you don't know one way or another. But no decision has been made, period. It really hasn't."

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Don Mattingly

“Let me put it this way, and it’s really pretty simple for me. He deserves to be treated with respect. No matter what happens, no matter what the decision is, Joe Torre needs to be treated with respect.

“Anything less than that, to me, would be unacceptable. He deserves that. You don’t hear him talk bad about the organization; you don’t hear him talk bad about any members of it. You don’t hear nothing negative from Joe in those terms. He’s handled himself with class. He needs to be treated with respect. … He has demanded it in a sense by the way he’s treated everyone and the job that he did.”

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Brian Cashman on A-Rod opting out

"That would be my position," Cashman said. "If he becomes a free agent, it becomes a different financial ballgame for us and it would make less sense for us to try to sign him. That would be my recommendation."

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Scott Boras

"Alex wants to be in one uniform for a long, long time, if not to the end of his career," his agent, Scott Boras, told the AP. "I think Alex could play very reasonably until he's 45. So you're talking about a situation where we want this guy to be identified with one franchise and one uniform for a very, very long time."

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Larry Bowa

“Joe treats everybody with respect, whether you’re a batboy, a coach or a trainer,” said Larry Bowa, the third-base coach. “He does everything the right way. What he has to go through, after all that he’s done, it doesn’t seem right. But we’ve all been in baseball for a long time. That’s the process.”

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Doug Mientkiewicz on Donnie Baseball

“He’s got a great baseball mind,” first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz said. “He and Joe were both great players. Sometimes you lose how hard this game really is, but Joe and Donnie didn’t lose that. Usually, the longer it is since you played, the better player you were and the easier the game was to you. But with those guys, they never make you feel like they’re talking down to you.”

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Jose Molina on his own future

Catcher Jose Molina, eligible for free agency, said he would like to return, even if it means continuing as a backup.

"I love it here," said Molina, who hit .318 in 29 games for the Yankees after being acquired from the Los Angeles Angels in July.

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