Top 70 Tommy Lasorda Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Tommy Lasorda

2. “Everybody makes mistakes, that’s why they put erasers on pencils.”

— Tommy Lasorda

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

— Tommy Lasorda

4. “Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it’s because you’ve started to think of failure.”

— Tommy Lasorda

5. “If you don’t love the Dodgers, there’s a good chance you may not get into Heaven.”

— Tommy Lasorda

6. “The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.”

— Tommy Lasorda

7. “I’m telling you, I don’t like cheaters.”

— Tommy Lasorda

8. “Talking about your troubles is no good. Eighty percent of your friends don’t care and the rest are glad.”

— Tommy Lasorda

9. “The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they’re looking down on the Dodgers.”

— Tommy Lasorda

10. “Nothing succeeds like – failure.”

— Tommy Lasorda

11. “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

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

— Tommy Lasorda

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

— Tommy Lasorda

14. “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.’”

— Tommy Lasorda

15. “I’m sick and tired of people saying that taking drugs is a sickness. When you put something of your own free will in your own body knowing that it’s harmful against the body, it’s against the law and all it will do is lead you down the path of destruction, that is a weakness.”

— Tommy Lasorda

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

— Tommy Lasorda

17. “You give loyalty, you’ll get it back.”

— Tommy Lasorda

18. “If you love your job, you haven’t worked a day in your life.”

— Tommy Lasorda

19. “I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I’m going to the big Dodger in the sky.”

— Tommy Lasorda

20. “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

21. “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

22. “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.”

— Tommy Lasorda

23. “Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn’t win.”

— Tommy Lasorda

24. “Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon...”

— Tommy Lasorda

25. “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

26. “I firmly believe that there is a God. I firmly believe that there is a Heaven. And I firmly believe that if you go there, it’s gonna be great.”

— Tommy Lasorda

27. “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

28. “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?”

— Tommy Lasorda

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

— Tommy Lasorda

30. “No, we don’t cheat. And even if we did, I’d never tell you.”

— Tommy Lasorda

31. “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

32. “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

33. “I motivate players through communication, being honest with them, having them respect and appreciate your ability and your help.”

— Tommy Lasorda

34. “Say ‘Dodgers’ and people know you’re talking about baseball. Say ‘Braves’ and they ask, ‘What reservation?’ Say ‘Reds’ and they think of communism. Say ‘Padres’ and they look around for a priest.”

— Tommy Lasorda

35. “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

36. “I do not care whether you’re a Democrat or you’re a Republican or an independent. We must pull for the people who are wearing the uniform of the armed forces. These people weren’t drafted. They enlisted, because they believe.”

— Tommy Lasorda

37. “When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we’re rained out.”

— Tommy Lasorda

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

— Tommy Lasorda

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

— Tommy Lasorda

40. “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.”

— Tommy Lasorda

41. “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

42. “Grownups have to say ‘please,’ too.”

— Tommy Lasorda

43. “Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.”

— Tommy Lasorda

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

— Tommy Lasorda

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

— Tommy Lasorda

46. “When you say you’re a padre, people ask when did you become a parent. When you say you’re a cardinal, they tell you to work hard because the next step is pope. But when you say you’re a Dodger, everybody knows you’re in the Major Leagues.”

— Tommy Lasorda

47. “Bruce Benedict is so slow he’d finish third in a race with a pregnant woman.”

— Tommy Lasorda

48. “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.”

— Tommy Lasorda

49. “My son wasn’t gay. No way.”

— Tommy Lasorda

50. “If he raced his pregnant wife he’d finish third.”

— Tommy Lasorda