Tommy Lasorda Quotes
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Tommy Lasorda Quotes & Sayings
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My goal is to live to be 100.
— Tommy Lasorda
Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.
— Tommy Lasorda
If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
— Tommy Lasorda
Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon ...
— Tommy Lasorda
Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
— Tommy Lasorda
Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
— Tommy Lasorda
When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher.
— Tommy Lasorda
About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
— Tommy Lasorda
I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
— Tommy Lasorda
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.
— Tommy Lasorda
Baseball is played by all countries now, and softball, too.
— Tommy Lasorda
You give loyalty, you'll get it back.
— Tommy Lasorda
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.
— Tommy Lasorda
Chan Ho had a great career and was the exemplification of class, dignity and character.
— Tommy Lasorda
Talking about your troubles is no good. Eighty percent of your friends don't care and the rest are glad.
— Tommy Lasorda
The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.
— Tommy Lasorda
No, we don't cheat. And even if we did, I'd never tell you.
— Tommy Lasorda
My son wasn't gay. No way.
— Tommy Lasorda
My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.
— Tommy Lasorda
You can wake up every day and make today better than the last.
— Tommy Lasorda
The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
— Tommy Lasorda
Nothing succeeds like - failure.
— Tommy Lasorda
Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
— Tommy Lasorda
I was told to stay away from pasta and bread for two weeks. Not eating pasta? That'll kill me. Anything else, but why pasta?
— Tommy Lasorda
I motivate players through communication, being honest with them, having them respect and appreciate your ability and your help.
— Tommy Lasorda
Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.
— Tommy Lasorda
I've had heroes in my life - Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth.
— Tommy Lasorda
Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
— Tommy Lasorda
I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
— Tommy Lasorda
Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.
— Tommy Lasorda
All last year we tried to teach him (Fernando Valenzuela) English, and the only word he learned was million.
— Tommy Lasorda
You get an opportunity to do something for your country, you better get out and do it.
— Tommy Lasorda
It's still the best game in town because you don't have to be big to play, and everybody plays. Even your grandmother probably played baseball.
— Tommy Lasorda
I wasn't quite sure how a player got to the big leagues. As far as I knew, he was just there one day.
— Tommy Lasorda
Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
— Tommy Lasorda
If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
— Tommy Lasorda
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.
— Tommy Lasorda
A second-guesser is one who doesn't know anything about the first guess, and he's one who needs 2 guesses to get one right.
— Tommy Lasorda
The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
— Tommy Lasorda
You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you've got to shut the doors down.
— Tommy Lasorda
The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.
— Tommy Lasorda
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.
— Tommy Lasorda
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
— Tommy Lasorda
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.
— Tommy Lasorda
I've been Catholic all my life, and there's one thing I've never understood. Why didn't the Corinthians write back?
— Tommy Lasorda
There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.
— Tommy Lasorda
