I started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then to the big leagues. I never reached the level that I thought I would reach as a player. But that's the way it goes. So then I started from the bottom as a manager, and I worked my way up to managing the Dodgers for 20 years.

The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.

Grownups have to say 'please,' too.

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

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.

I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter or anybody else's wife.

Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.