Success Quote by George Steinbrenner

For a man who spent decades acting like certainty was a moral virtue, "I haven't always made the right decisions" lands as a deliberately modest confession with a steel trap inside it. George Steinbrenner wasn’t known for public self-doubt; he was known for firing managers like it was a competitive sport and treating the Yankees as both inheritance and instrument. So the line works less as repentance than as brand maintenance: an admission calibrated to sound human without surrendering authority.

The phrasing is the tell. "Haven't always" implies a high baseline of correctness; the failures are occasional, almost statistical noise. "Right decisions" keeps the focus on judgment, not character. It sidesteps the messy particulars (the chaos years, the suspension over Dave Winfield, the revolving door in the dugout) and reframes them as the inevitable friction of a high-stakes operator. In other words: I’m accountable, but I’m still the guy you want at the wheel.

Context matters because Steinbrenner’s legacy is a paradox the quote quietly manages. He was both the avatar of impatient, headline-chasing ownership and the architect of the most valuable, most mythologized franchise in American sports. By offering a thin slice of humility, he invites the public to see the volatility as passion, the overreach as competitiveness, the misfires as the cost of caring too much. It’s a corporate apology in pinstripes: vague enough to protect the empire, specific enough to suggest growth, timed to preserve the larger story that his way, for all its wreckage, still "worked."