As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because you either loved them or you hated them.

Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result.

Baseball is a game of life. It's not perfect, but it feels like it is.

The second you think you've arrived, someone passes you. You have to always be in pursuit.

Don't be afraid to fail, encourage your talent, and use your heart. And never be unprepared

A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished.

When we lost I couldn't sleep at night. When we win I can't sleep at night. But when you win, you wake up feeling better

Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.

Watching other teams in the World Series is like watching somebody else eat a Hot Fudge Sundae.

I have no problem with cheating. Whatever you can get away with.

If you do the best you can, you never have to look back.

My burden is my purpose. Without it, I wouldn't be.

I ain't running for office. I ain't running for nothing.

i hate not knowing what i did." _Eric

Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.

Love needs no protection; it is its own protection.

Setbacks and losses are both inevitable and essential if you're going to improve and become a good, even great, competitor. The art is in avoiding catastrophic losses in the key battles.

When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.

In America, there are some artists who are more of an image than music; if your star status goes down there, you're finished.

The first great work (a task performed by few) Is that yourself may to yourself be true.