Tommy Lasorda Quotes

The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

I walk into the clubhouse today and it's like walking into the Mayo Clinic. We have four doctors, three therapists and five trainers. Back when I broke in, we had one trainer who carried a bottle of rubbing alcohol, and by the 7th inning he'd already drunk it.

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

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

Bruce Benedict is so slow he'd finish third in a race with a pregnant woman.

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

If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.

My wife tells me one day, 'I think you love baseball more than me.' I say, 'Well, I guess that's true, but hey, I love you more than football and hockey.'

Ernie Banks was a great great player and when he no longer could play, he became a great ambassador for the game. He represented the game with the highest of class and dignity. Everybody loved Ernie Banks. He enjoyed baseball, life and people. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family. We have truly lost a baseball giant.

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

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.

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.

The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.

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.

He (Darryl Strawberry) is not a dog; a dog is loyal and runs after balls.

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.

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?

My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.

I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'

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.”

Everywhere I go, I feel strange.

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

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.

I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.

Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils

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

All last year we tried to teach him (Fernando Valenzuela) English, and the only word he learned was million.