I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.

Don't go to the grave with life unused.

That boy don't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don't know the meaning of a lot of words.

Discipline to me is sacrifice; it's willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.

The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.

Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.

If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.

When I go after something, I go after it hard. It has always been that way. I don't know. It's in my blood.

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.

Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel.

I'm not too proud to change. I like to win too much.

To shift your life in a desired direction, you must powerfully shift your subconscious.

A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.

Resolve to pay any price or make any sacrifice to get into the top ten percent of your field. That payoff is incredible!

There's enough adverbs in the world for you to start creating new ones.

I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance.

Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.

A distribution is just if it arises from another just distribution by legitimate means.

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.