Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
When you - when you become the manager of a major league team, particularly the Dodgers, to me, that's a privilege and an honor. No matter where you go or what you do, you represent that position that you have. And you represent that organization that gave you the opportunity to be doing what you're doing.
The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.
I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it.
Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.
I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter... or anybody else's wife.
Chan Ho had a great career and was the exemplification of class, dignity and character.
Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
When I was interviewed after I got hired to replace Walter Alston, a future Hall of Famer, I was asked: 'Don't you feel pressure on you?' I said: 'Want to know something? I'm worried about the guy who's going to have to replace me.'
One time I was doing a speech to a group of kids, and just before I get there, I see this little kid crying. I found out they just lost a game, and he was the losing pitcher. I went over there, put my arm around him, and said, 'What are you crying for? When major league players lose, they don't cry.'
There are three kinds of people in this world: people who make it happen, people who watch what happens, and people who wonder what happened.
'Pressure' is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.
No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are, you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.
I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.
Baseball is played by all countries now, and softball, too.
You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you've got to shut the doors down.
Sometimes you've just got to let an umpire know that you're not satisfied with his decision. That they've missed the play in your opinion. Not that it's going to do you any good, but you've got to let them know.
