Quotes by Tommy Lasorda

About Tommy Lasorda:

Thomas Charles "Tommy" Lasorda is a former Major League baseball player who has had a lengthy career in sports management. In 2009, he marked his sixth decade in one capacity or another with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers organization, the longest non-continuous (he played one season with the Kansas City Athletics) tenure anyone has had with the team, edging Dodger broadcaster Vin Scully by a single season. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame as a manager in 1997.
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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

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

Tommy Lasorda

Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.

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 bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.

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

The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.

Tommy Lasorda

Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.

Tommy Lasorda

My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.

Tommy Lasorda

People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.

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

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

I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.

Tommy Lasorda

Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.

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

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 ...

Tommy Lasorda

I went on national television - went on national television and said. '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...

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 tha...

Tommy Lasorda

No, we don't cheat. And even if we did, I'd never tell you.

Tommy Lasorda

Author Bio

  • NameTommy Lasorda
  • DescriptionAmerican baseball player and coach
  • BornSeptember 22, 1927
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionBaseball Player
  • AwardsOrder Of The Rising Sun, 4th Class