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" You get an opportunity to do something for your country, you better get out and do it. "

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

" Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl? "

" I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it. "

" I firmly believe that there is a God. I firmly believe that there is a Heaven. And I firmly believe that if you go there, it's gonna be great. "

" 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. "

" Everywhere I go, I feel strange. "

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

" My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it. "

" 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. "

" I started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then to the big leagues. I never reached the level that I thought I would reach as a player. But that's the way it goes. So then I started from the bottom as a manager, and I worked my way up to managing the Dodgers for 20 years. "

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

" Grownups have to say 'please,' too. "

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

" My goal is to live to be 100. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher. "

" I've had heroes in my life - Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth. "

" They could never beat me in Springfield. I loved that old ballpark. If I could have pitched there all my career, I'd be a 300-game winner. "

" Always give an autograph when somebody asks you. "

" When I took the job as the manager of the Olympic team, I didn't take it because I was a Dodger. I did it because I was an American, and I wanted to bring that gold medal where it belongs in baseball, the United States. And that's exactly what our team did. "

" I bleed Dodger blue! "

" We're all put here for a reason. And one little movement changes your way of life. "

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

" Chan Ho had a great career and was the exemplification of class, dignity and character. "

" 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. "

" Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win. "