No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.

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

This is bigger than baseball in the Olympics because of the attraction of the fans. If they're going to knock us out, then we have got something that they don't have. That's how I feel and I want the Olympic people to know it.

Say 'Dodgers' and people know you're talking about baseball. Say 'Braves' and they ask, 'What reservation?' Say 'Reds' and they think of communism. Say 'Padres' and they look around for a priest.

Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.

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