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

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.

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.

L'aube exalteé ainsi qu'un peuple de colombes, et j'ai vu quelquefois ce que l'homme a cru voir!(And dawn, exalted like a host of doves - and then I've seen what men believe they've seen!)

When in crises situation, never mourn along with the crises, rather speak to the crises saying, "Crises what opportunities are you hiding for me.

Let your soul bloom like a flower with the beauty and fragrance of divine love.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

Al Qaeda has declared war on the Somali pirates. That is awesome! Evil against evil. Like Alien versus Predator or Cheney versus his lawyer.

and nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old

For then I knew my soul - every soul - has always held Him.

Our whole educational and cultural system is not designed to provide those intellectual tools, so people are often lost and the internet often becomes kind of a cult generator.

I've got a lot of stamina and I enjoy people, so having lots of people around doesn't freak me out.