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.

Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils

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.

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.

I've had heroes in my life - Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth.

I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'