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Tommy Lasorda

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Sometimes, you get too hopped up, too excited, and it works against you.
Tommy Lasorda
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.
Tommy Lasorda
The best possible thing in baseball is winning the World Series. The second best thing is losing the World Series.
Tommy Lasorda
Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
Tommy Lasorda
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
Tommy Lasorda
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
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
I started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then to the big leagues. I never reached the level that I thought I would reach as a player. But that's the way it goes. So then I started from the bottom as a manager, and I worked my way up to managing the Dodgers for 20 years.
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
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
Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.
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
One time I was doing a speech to a group of kids, and just before I get there, I see this little kid crying. I found out they just lost a game, and he was the losing pitcher. I went over there, put my arm around him, and said, 'What are you crying for? When major league players lose, they don't cry.'
Tommy Lasorda
Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
Tommy Lasorda
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
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
Everywhere I go, I feel strange.
Tommy Lasorda
Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
Tommy Lasorda
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
I bleed Dodger blue!
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
Baseball is played by all countries now, and softball, too.
Tommy Lasorda
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
Tommy Lasorda
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
You give loyalty, you'll get it back. You give love, you'll get it back.
Tommy Lasorda
I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer.
Tommy Lasorda
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.
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
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.
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
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
'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
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
Tommy Lasorda
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.
Tommy Lasorda
You can wake up every day and make today better than the last.
Tommy Lasorda
I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.
Tommy Lasorda
If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
Tommy Lasorda
People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
Tommy Lasorda
About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
Tommy Lasorda
My son wasn't gay. No way.
Tommy Lasorda
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
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
Baseball is like driving its the one who gets home safely that counts.
Tommy Lasorda
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
I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
Tommy Lasorda
If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.
Tommy Lasorda
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a mans determination.
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
You get an opportunity to do something for your country, you better get out and do it.
Tommy Lasorda
The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on 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
Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
Tommy Lasorda
Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
Tommy Lasorda
My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.
Tommy Lasorda
I was fortunate enough to coach the U.S. Olympic team in Australia.
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
No, we don't cheat. And even if we did, I'd never tell you.
Tommy Lasorda
Chan Ho had a great career and was the exemplification of class, dignity and character.
Tommy Lasorda
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
We're all put here for a reason. And one little movement changes your way of life.
Tommy Lasorda
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

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