Tommy Lasorda Quotes
Top 66 wise famous quotes and sayings by Tommy Lasorda
Tommy Lasorda Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.
When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher.
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?
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.
Talking about your troubles is no good. Eighty percent of your friends don't care and the rest are glad.
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.
I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter ... or anybody else's wife.
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?
I motivate players through communication, being honest with them, having them respect and appreciate your ability and your help.
Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.
All last year we tried to teach him (Fernando Valenzuela) English, and the only word he learned was million.
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.
I wasn't quite sure how a player got to the big leagues. As far as I knew, he was just there one day.
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.
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.
The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you've got to shut the doors down.
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.
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.
I've been Catholic all my life, and there's one thing I've never understood. Why didn't the Corinthians write back?