Words matter. These are the best Tommy Lasorda Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Chan Ho had a great career and was the exemplification of class, dignity and character.
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.
Baseball is played by all countries now, and softball, too.
I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.
Sometimes, you get too hopped up, too excited, and it works against you.
About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they’re looking down on the Dodgers.
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.
People say you can’t go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
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 you – when you become the manager of a major league team, particularly the Dodgers, to me, that’s a privilege and an honor. No matter where you go or what you do, you represent that position that you have. And you represent that organization that gave you the opportunity to be doing what you’re doing.
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.
My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.
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.
The only way I’d worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.
Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
I’ve never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter… or anybody else’s wife.
Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn’t win.
Baseball is like driving, it’s the one who gets home safely that counts.
I’ve had heroes in my life – Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth.
I still remember the entire Boy Scout motto. I don’t remember the serial number of my gun in the army. I don’t remember the number of my locker in school. But I remember that Boy Scout code.
I was fortunate enough to coach the U.S. Olympic team in Australia.
When I was interviewed after I got hired to replace Walter Alston, a future Hall of Famer, I was asked: ‘Don’t you feel pressure on you?’ I said: ‘Want to know something? I’m worried about the guy who’s going to have to replace me.’
Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you’re up in the stands with them.
You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you’ve got to shut the doors down.
‘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’m telling you, I don’t like cheaters.
If you love your job, you haven’t worked a day in your life.
You can wake up every day and make today better than the last.
There are three kinds of people in this world: people who make it happen, people who watch what happens, and people who wonder what happened.
My son wasn’t gay. No way.
Grownups have to say ‘please,’ too.
