Tommy Lasorda Quotes

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

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.

We’re all put here for a reason. And one little movement changes your way of life.

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.’

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?

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

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.

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.

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.

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.

I’ve never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter… or anybody else‘s wife.

I’ve had heroes in my life – Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth.

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

Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you’re up in the stands with them.

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.’

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

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.

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

Chan Ho had a great career and was the exemplification of class, dignity and character.

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.

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.

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

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

You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you’ve got to shut the doors down.

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

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

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

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

Baseball is like driving, it’s the one who gets home safely that counts.

You give loyalty, you’ll get it back. You give love, you’ll get it back.