Inspirational Quotes by Tommy Lasorda (American Baseball Player, Coach)

Thomas Charles Lasorda (1927–2021) was an American professional baseball pitcher and manager. He spent twenty seasons as the skipper of the Los Angeles Dodgers. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame as a manager in 1997.

Born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, Lasorda began his pro career when he signed as an undrafted free agent with the Philadelphia Phillies in 1945. He missed the ’46 and ’47 seasons while serving in the Army. Lasorda returned to baseball in 1948 and was drafted by the Dodgers. He played in Panama and Cuba before making his major league début in 1954 for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

In all, Lasorda spent 71 years with the Dodgers—as a player, scout, coach, manager, and front office executive. He managed the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB) 1976–96, guiding the Dodgers to two World Series titles, four National League pennants, and eight division crowns. Additionally, he led the United States baseball team to a gold medal at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000.

Biographies include Colin Gunderson’s Tommy Lasorda: My Way (2015) and Bill Plaschke’s I Live for This: Baseball’s Last True Believer (2007.)

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When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we’re rained out.
—Tommy Lasorda
Topics: Sports

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: Baseball, One liners

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

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

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

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: Success, Self-reliance, Worry, Confidence

Baseball is like driving, it’s the one who gets home safely that counts
—Tommy Lasorda
Topics: Baseball

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 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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