Baseball is the life.

I have been blessed to win a number of awards and be involved in numerous historical baseball moments over my 20-year career with the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres.

You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential.

You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful.

The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.

Lasorda's standard reply when some new kid would ask directions to the whirlpool was to tell him to stick his foot in the toilet and flush it.

I did commit adultery, if adultery is having a relationship in a marriage with another woman. I learned from that.

I had a prostatectomy in the fall and fortunately it was encapsulated and I didn't have to go through chemotherapy.

I always thought of my career as a body of work and not just about numbers.

With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.

To be perfectly honest, it isn't fair that people have used my personality, and the sacrifices I make because I want to, as an indication that I want to be in a political office.

The first place where self-esteem begins its journey is within us.

Do not be afraid of what should be afraid of you

What is eternal is the cloud drifting slowly out of sight.

So such is life that it writes itself, trying to right itself, but there's nothing wrong with it.

Blues is not a dream, blues is truth.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

Power is the ability to translate, that is, to shift from one level of attention to another.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

If I ever complain to an agent about anything, he always has a pained look on his face, like, "How can you be so ungrateful? Why, Mick, I just named my yacht after you!"

True in the game, as long as blood is blue in my veins I pour my Heineken brew to my deceased crew on memory lane