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 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.

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.

Baseball is the life.

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.

Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.

Character is never built in a classroom

The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee A clover anytime to him Is aristocracy.

We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the Reality and interested in telling about it.

I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.

After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow.

How soft indeed the song of butterflies eating.

Bare your struggles very close to your heart and have them be a part of you that you’re proud of instead of something that you’re ashamed of.

Madness strips you of memory and leaves you scrabbling around on the floor of your brain for the snatches and snippets of what happened, what was said, and when.