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About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager

Tommy (Lasorda) will eat anything, as long as you pay for it.

American baseball player, manager & executive

One night we play like King Kong, the next night like Fay Wray.

American baseball player & manager

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

(1934 – 2010) American baseball manager

The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager

We've got to learn to stay out of triple plays.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

The Mets have gotten their leadoff hitter on base only once in this inning.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

I walk into the clubhouse and it's like walking into the Mayo Clinic; we have four doctors, three therapists and five trainers. Back when I broke in, we had one trainer who carried a bottle of rubbing alcohol and by the seventh inning he had drunk it all.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager

There are younger Aztec ruins.

sportswriter & newspaper columnist

The secret of my success was clean living and a fast outfield.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

If I'd known I was going to pitch a no-hitter today, I would have gotten a haircut.

professional baseball player

Next up is Fernando Gonzales, who is not playing tonight.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

He (Sandy Koufax) throws a 'radio ball,' a pitch you hear, but you don't see.

(1925 – 2005) American baseball player & manager

I refuse to call a 47-year-old white-haired man ’Sparky.’

baseball umpire

Probably the best thing that happened to me was going nuts. Nobody knew who I was until that happened.

(1929 – ) American baseball player who had a well-publicized bipolar disorder

The Cards lead the Dodgers 4-2 after one inning and that one hasn’t even started.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

If everyone were like him (Mitch Williams) I wouldn't play. I'd find a safer way to make a living.

baseball player

I can play anywhere; First, Third, Left field… anywhere but Philadelphia.

(1942 – ) American baseball player

The Yankees are only interested in one thing, and I don’t know what that is.

professional baseball player

A stadium with the lights out.

American baseball pitcher