Tommy Lasorda Quotes
"Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them."
- Tommy Lasorda
(Related: People)
"I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer."
- Tommy Lasorda
(Related: Love)
"I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky."
- Tommy Lasorda
(Related: Sky)
"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
"About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure."
- Tommy Lasorda
(Related: Success, Failure)
"Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts."
- Tommy Lasorda
(Related: Home, Baseball, Driving)
"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?"
- Tommy Lasorda
(Related: Love, Kissing, Pretty)
"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination."
- Tommy Lasorda
(Related: Determination, Difference, Lies, Man)
"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
(Related: Flies)
"My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it."
- Tommy Lasorda
(Related: Theory)
"No, we don't cheat. And even if we did, I'd never tell you."
- 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
(Related: Weather, Worry)
"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
(Related: Baseball, Wonder)
"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
"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
(Related: Failure, Pressure, Thinking, Vocabulary, Word)
"People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not."
- Tommy Lasorda
(Related: People)