When you're not playing up to your capability, you gotta try everything, to motivate, to get them going. All of them have to be on the same end of the rope to pull together. It's playing for the name on the front of the shirt, not the back. Individualism gets you trophies and plaques. Play for the front, that wins championships. I try to remind them of that.

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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

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

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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.

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Talking about your troubles is no good. Eighty percent of your friends don't care and the rest are glad.

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If you don't root for the Dodgers, you might not get into heaven.

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I walk into the clubhouse today 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 7th inning he'd already drunk it.

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The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

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Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

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

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The worst team in baseball's history won only 55 games. The best team ever won 110 out of 160, so you're virtually guaranteed to win 1/3 of the time and lose 1/3 of the time. The difference is the 1/3 in the middle. You don't know what bucket the game you're playing falls into, so if you're smart, you'll fight like everything for all of them.

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You have got to love what you're doing. No matter what it is. Whatever you undertake in life, if you don't love it, and you don't enjoy it, you are making a big mistake. You have got to love what you are doing. You have to appreciate what you are getting, and you have to do it to the best of your ability.

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The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.

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Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away.

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When you say you're a padre, people ask when did you become a parent. When you say you're a cardinal, they tell you to work hard because the next step is pope. But when you say you're a Dodger, everybody knows you're in the Major Leagues.

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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.

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You can wake up every day and make today better than the last.

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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils

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Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.

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The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.

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