I walk into the clubhouse today and it's like walking into the Mayo Clinic. We have four doctors, three therapists and five trainers. Back when I broke in, we had one trainer who carried a bottle of rubbing alcohol, and by the 7th inning he'd already drunk it.

When you say you're a padre, people ask when did you become a parent. When you say you're a cardinal, they tell you to work hard because the next step is pope. But when you say you're a Dodger, everybody knows you're in the Major Leagues.

All last year we tried to teach him (Fernando Valenzuela) English, and the only word he learned was million.

It's still the best game in town because you don't have to be big to play, and everybody plays. Even your grandmother probably played baseball.

A second-guesser is one who doesn't know anything about the first guess, and he's one who needs 2 guesses to get one right.

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.”

Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.