The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

You have got to love what you're doing. No matter what it is. Whatever you undertake in life, if you don't love it, and you don't enjoy it, you are making a big mistake. You have got to love what you are doing. You have to appreciate what you are getting, and you have to do it to the best of your ability.

Say 'Dodgers' and people know you're talking about baseball. Say 'Braves' and they ask, 'What reservation?' Say 'Reds' and they think of communism. Say 'Padres' and they look around for a priest.

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away.

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.

The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

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