Thomas Charles Lasorda (b.1927) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who is best known for his two decades as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2018, he marked his 69th season in one capacity or another with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers organization, the longest tenure anyone has had with the team, edging Dodger broadcaster Vin Scully by three seasons. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame as a manager in 1997. He is currently the oldest living Hall of Famer as of October 2018.
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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 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
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: Worry, Weather
The best possible thing in baseball is winning the World Series. The second best thing is losing the World Series
—Tommy Lasorda
Topics: Baseball
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, Success, Worry
Baseball is like driving, it’s the one who gets home safely that counts
—Tommy Lasorda
Topics: Baseball
When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we’re rained out.
—Tommy Lasorda
Topics: Sports
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
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