When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we’re rained out.
—Tommy Lasorda
Topics: Sports
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
Topics: Confidence, Self-reliance, Worry, Success
Baseball is like driving, it’s the one who gets home safely that counts
—Tommy Lasorda
Topics: Baseball
The only way I’d worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.
—Tommy Lasorda
Topics: Weather, Worry
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
Topics: Management
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.
—Tommy Lasorda
Topics: Determination
The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends
—Tommy Lasorda
Topics: One liners, Baseball
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
Topics: Thinking, Stress
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
Topics: Baseball
The best possible thing in baseball is winning the World Series. The second best thing is losing the World Series
—Tommy Lasorda
Topics: Baseball
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