Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.”
Tommy Lasorda
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Tommy Lasorda
Age: 93 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 22
Died: 2021
Died: January 7
Baseball Manager
Baseball Player
Voice Actor
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Thomas Charles Lasorda
Pressure
Famer
Asked
Interviewed
Guy
Walter
Future
Hired
Feel
Hall
Feels
Replace
Going
Halls
Something
Worried
More quotes by Tommy Lasorda
I motivate players through communication, being honest with them, having them respect and appreciate your ability and your help.
Tommy Lasorda
Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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
Sometimes you've just got to let an umpire know that you're not satisfied with his decision. That they've missed the play in your opinion. Not that it's going to do you any good, but you've got to let them know.
Tommy Lasorda
It's still the best game in town because you don't have to be big to play, and everybody plays. Even your grandmother probably played baseball.
Tommy Lasorda
A second-guesser is one who doesn't know anything about the first guess, and he's one who needs 2 guesses to get one right.
Tommy Lasorda
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
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
If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
Tommy Lasorda
I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
Tommy Lasorda
The worst team in baseball's history won only 55 games. The best team ever won 110 out of 160, so you're virtually guaranteed to win 1/3 of the time and lose 1/3 of the time. The difference is the 1/3 in the middle. You don't know what bucket the game you're playing falls into, so if you're smart, you'll fight like everything for all of them.
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
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
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
Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
Tommy Lasorda
Caltech honored me -- they named an asteroid after me. There's only two of them up there with names. One of them is Walter Cronkite. The other is Tommy Lasorda.
Tommy Lasorda
Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
Tommy Lasorda
I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
Tommy Lasorda
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
The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
Tommy Lasorda
