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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Baseball is played by all countries now, and softball, too.

Tommy Lasorda

I was fortunate enough to coach the U.S. Olympic team in Australia.

Tommy Lasorda

Everywhere I go, I feel strange.

Tommy Lasorda

Grownups have to say 'please,' too.

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'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

Sometimes, you get too hopped up, too excited, and it works against you.

Tommy Lasorda

My son wasn't gay. No way.

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

The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.

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

My goal is to live to be 100.

Tommy Lasorda

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

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 te...

Tommy Lasorda

You get an opportunity to do something for your country, you better get out and do it.

Tommy Lasorda

I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?

Tommy Lasorda

You can wake up every day and make today better than the last.

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

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

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

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