You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you've got to shut the doors down.
Tommy LasordaTalking about your troubles is no good. Eighty percent of your friends don't care and the rest are glad.
Tommy LasordaWhen 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 LasordaIt'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 LasordaYou have got to love what you're doing. No matter what it is. Whatever you undertake in life, if you don't love it, and you don't enjoy it, you are making a big mistake. You have got to love what you are doing. You have to appreciate what you are getting, and you have to do it to the best of your ability.
Tommy Lasorda