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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
Tommy Lasorda
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Tommy Lasorda
Age: 93 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 22
Died: 2021
Died: January 7
Baseball Manager
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Thomas Charles Lasorda
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More quotes by 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
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
I wasn't quite sure how a player got to the big leagues. As far as I knew, he was just there one day.
Tommy Lasorda
There are parents out there screaming as if their kid is going to be in the big leagues someday. C'mon. I chew them out if I see that. Maybe they've got their own idea how to do things, but it's wrong. Just be with the kids. Let 'em make errors. Give them all a chance. It's not about winning. It's spirit, togetherness.
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
Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.
Tommy Lasorda
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
Tommy Lasorda
I've been Catholic all my life, and there's one thing I've never understood. Why didn't the Corinthians write back?
Tommy Lasorda
I don't like the pitch count! How are you gonna develop your arm? If you're a track man you say, Hey, you can't run too much. Or if you're a boxer you say, Hey, you can only box three rounds. It's not right!
Tommy Lasorda
People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
Tommy Lasorda
I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.
Tommy Lasorda
Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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
I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
Tommy Lasorda
Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
Tommy Lasorda
I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
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
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
Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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
