Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer. "
Tommy Lasorda
Way
Get
I Love
Related Quotes:
" Sometimes, you get too hopped up, too excited, and it works against you. "
Tommy Lasorda
You
Against
Excited
" 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
Love
You
Tired
" Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts. "
Tommy Lasorda
Like
Baseball
Driving
" Everywhere I go, I feel strange. "
Tommy Lasorda
Strange
Go
Feel
" 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
Hard
Hand
Enough
" My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it. "
Tommy Lasorda
Watch
Hit
Just
" '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
Thinking
Failure
Start
" 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
Daughter
Wife
One Word
" 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
Boy
Army
School
" My goal is to live to be 100. "
Tommy Lasorda
Live
Goal
" 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
Make It Happen
Three
Wonder
" 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
Team
Organization
Opportunity
" If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven. "
Tommy Lasorda
Chance
Dodgers
Good
" 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
Win
Good
Bad
" 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
Never
Army
High
" 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
People
Make It Happen
World
" 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
Thought
Baseball
Manager
" I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters. "
Tommy Lasorda
Cheaters
Like
You
" You can wake up every day and make today better than the last. "
Tommy Lasorda
You
Today
Better
" The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers. "
Tommy Lasorda
Heaven
Angels
Looking
" Baseball is played by all countries now, and softball, too. "
Tommy Lasorda
Played
Now
Countries
" 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
Heaven
Go
Believe
" I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.' "
Tommy Lasorda
Always
Capital
World
" Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path. "
Tommy Lasorda
Kept
Sports
Path
" About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure. "
Tommy Lasorda
Problem
Failure
You
" We're all put here for a reason. And one little movement changes your way of life. "
Tommy Lasorda
Way
Changes
Life
" 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
Election
I Am
Happy
" 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
Baseball
Doors
Down
" 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
Diet
Happy
Lose
" You give loyalty, you'll get it back. You give love, you'll get it back. "
Tommy Lasorda
Loyalty
Get
Back