Tommy Lasorda

“Grownups have to say 'please,' too.”

“I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.”

“I didn't even graduate from high school. I've never told anybody that before. I got my degree later, when I was in the army.”

“I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter... or anybody else's wife.”

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

“I bleed Dodger blue!”

“People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.”

“Everywhere I go, I feel strange.”

“Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.”

“I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?”

“My goal is to live to be 100.”

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

“If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.”

“Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.”

“I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer.”

“I still remember the entire Boy Scout motto. I don't remember the serial number of my gun in the army. I don't remember the number of my locker in school. But I remember that Boy Scout code.”

“When we win, I'm so happy I eat a lot. When we lose, I'm so depressed, I eat a lot. When we're rained out, I'm so disappointed I eat a lot.”

“My son wasn't gay. No way.”

“Sometimes you've just got to let an umpire know that you're not satisfied with his decision. That they've missed the play in your opinion. Not that it's going to do you any good, but you've got to let them know.”

“You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you've got to shut the doors down.”