Top 84 Lasorda's Quotes
#1. Lasorda's standard reply when some new kid would ask directions to the whirlpool was to tell him to stick his foot in the toilet and flush it.
Steve Garvey
#2. Say 'Dodgers' and people know you're talking about baseball. Say 'Braves' and they ask, 'What reservation?' Say 'Reds' and they think of communism. Say 'Padres' and they look around for a priest.
Tommy Lasorda
#3. When you say you're a padre, people ask when did you become a parent. When you say you're a cardinal, they tell you to work hard because the next step is pope. But when you say you're a Dodger, everybody knows you're in the Major Leagues.
Tommy Lasorda
#4. 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
#5. I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer.
Tommy Lasorda
#6. I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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#7. My wife tells me one day, 'I think you love baseball more than me.' I say, 'Well, I guess that's true, but hey, I love you more than football and hockey.'
Tommy Lasorda
#8. 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
#9. All last year we tried to teach him (Fernando Valenzuela) English, and the only word he learned was million.
Tommy Lasorda
#10. I'm so excited I had a seven-car police motorcycle escort. I've had escorts before, but nothing like this ... I'm really in awe, coming here and seeing so many cars, so much enthusiasm.
Tommy Lasorda
#12. Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
Tommy Lasorda
#13. He (Darryl Strawberry) is not a dog; a dog is loyal and runs after balls.
Tommy Lasorda
#14. Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.
Tommy Lasorda
#16. 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
#17. If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
Tommy Lasorda
#18. I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
Tommy Lasorda
#19. I don't like the pitch count! How are you gonna develop your arm? If you're a track man you say, "Hey, you can't run too much." Or if you're a boxer you say, "Hey, you can only box three rounds." It's not right!
Tommy Lasorda
#20. I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
Tommy Lasorda
#21. Sometimes, you get too hopped up, too excited, and it works against you.
Tommy Lasorda
#22. 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
#23. The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
Tommy Lasorda
#24. About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
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#25. If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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#27. The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
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#28. Talking about your troubles is no good. Eighty percent of your friends don't care and the rest are glad.
Tommy Lasorda
#29. Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
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#30. You get an opportunity to do something for your country, you better get out and do it.
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#31. I motivate players through communication, being honest with them, having them respect and appreciate your ability and your help.
Tommy Lasorda
#32. Baseball is played by all countries now, and softball, too.
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#33. 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
#34. Wait until Tommy Lasorda meets the Lord and finds out He's wearing pinstripes
Gaylord Perry
#35. My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.
Tommy Lasorda
#36. The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.
Tommy Lasorda
#37. When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher.
Tommy Lasorda
#38. Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.
Tommy Lasorda
#39. I was fortunate enough to coach the U.S. Olympic team in Australia.
Tommy Lasorda
#40. 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
#41. No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.
Tommy Lasorda
#42. I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.
Tommy Lasorda
#43. My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.
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#44. 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?
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#45. Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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#46. 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.
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#47. The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
Tommy Lasorda
#48. 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.
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#49. When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we're rained out.
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#50. Chan Ho had a great career and was the exemplification of class, dignity and character.
Tommy Lasorda
#51. I walk into the clubhouse today and it's like walking into the Mayo Clinic. We have four doctors, three therapists and five trainers. Back when I broke in, we had one trainer who carried a bottle of rubbing alcohol, and by the 7th inning he'd already drunk it.
Tommy Lasorda
#52. People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
Tommy Lasorda
#53. 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
#54. 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.'
Tommy Lasorda
#55. I do not care whether you're a Democrat or you're a Republican or an independent. We must pull for the people who are wearing the uniform of the armed forces. These people weren't drafted. They enlisted, because they believe.
Tommy Lasorda
#56. I've had heroes in my life - Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth.
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#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. We're all put here for a reason. And one little movement changes your way of life.
Tommy Lasorda
#60. Tommy (Lasorda) will eat anything, as long as you pay for it.
Joe Torre
#61. Caltech honored me
they named an asteroid after me. There's only two of them up there with names. One of them is Walter Cronkite. The other is Tommy Lasorda.
Tommy Lasorda
#62. You give loyalty, you'll get it back. You give love, you'll get it back.
Tommy Lasorda
#63. 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
#64. Bruce Benedict is so slow he'd finish third in a race with a pregnant woman.
Tommy Lasorda
#65. If you don't root for the Dodgers, you might not get into heaven,
Tommy Lasorda
#66. When I took the job as the manager of the Olympic team, I didn't take it because I was a Dodger. I did it because I was an American, and I wanted to bring that gold medal where it belongs in baseball, the United States. And that's exactly what our team did.
Tommy Lasorda
#67. 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
#68. Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
Tommy Lasorda
#69. I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter ... or anybody else's wife.
Tommy Lasorda
#71. 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.
Tommy Lasorda
#72. I am so happy and proud to learn of Hideo Nomo's election to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. He was quite a pitcher and competitor, but he is also a very special and caring person.
Tommy Lasorda
#73. If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.
Tommy Lasorda
#74. Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon ...
Tommy Lasorda
#75. No, we don't cheat. And even if we did, I'd never tell you.
Tommy Lasorda
#76. I'm sick and tired of people saying that taking drugs is a sickness. When you put something of your own free will in your own body knowing that it's harmful against the body, it's against the law and all it will do is lead you down the path of destruction, that is a weakness.
Tommy Lasorda
#77. 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
#78. If you'd see my schedule, you'd know I have no time to slow down.
Tommy Lasorda
#79. You can wake up every day and make today better than the last.
Tommy Lasorda
#81. Sometimes you've just got to let an umpire know that you're not satisfied with his decision. That they've missed the play in your opinion. Not that it's going to do you any good, but you've got to let them know.
Tommy Lasorda
#83. The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.
Tommy Lasorda
#84. Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.
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