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.

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.

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.

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.

Let the blossoms of love beautify your heart.

. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don't want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to think!""Good Heavens!" said Pippin. "At breakfast?

Neither machines, nor the commodities made by them, rise in real value, but all commodities made by machines fall, and fall in proportion to their durability.

No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities.

Success is overrated.

When you compare yourself to others, you miss the miracle of who you are.

I'll talk to myself out loud a lot.

Children don't just get milk from breastfeeding, they get our energy too.

We must love men, ere to us they will seem worthy of our love.