Quotes on Dodgers

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

I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.

If I could straighten it out (his golf swing), I'd be pitching at Dodger Stadium tonight.

I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.

The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.

In all honesty, once you become a professional, number one, you're no longer a fan. I don't root for the Dodgers, really. I just try to do the game as best I can. And the winning and the losing will take care of itself.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

I use my single windup, my double windup, my triple windup, my hesitation windup, my no windup. I also use my step-n-pitch-it, my submariner, my sidearmer and my bat dodger. Man's got to do what he's got to do.