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  • 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.

    "Q&A: Tommy Lasorda talks food, baseball and motivation, as only Mr. Dodger can". Interview with Tom Hoffarth, www.dailynews.com. July 15, 2013.
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