Tommy Lasorda Quotes

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  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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2015

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• Talking about your troubles is no good. Eighty percent of your friends don't care and the rest are glad.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Funny, Talking, Care

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  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

  Baseball, Hockey, Winning

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• If you don't root for the Dodgers, you might not get into heaven.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Roots, Heaven, Might

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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

  Inspirational, Happiness, Basketball

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• 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.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Funny, Baseball, Doctors

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

  Tommy Lasorda

  Sports, Mistake, Psychology

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

  Tommy Lasorda

  Baseball, Running, Wife

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

  Tommy Lasorda

  Motivational, Success, Congratulations

  Tommy Lasorda, David Fisher (1986). “The Artful Dodger”, Avon Books

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• You have got to love what you're doing. No matter what it is. Whatever you undertake in life, if you don't love it, and you don't enjoy it, you are making a big mistake. You have got to love what you are doing. You have to appreciate what you are getting, and you have to do it to the best of your ability.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Mistake, Appreciate, Doing You

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

  Tommy Lasorda

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

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• When you're not playing up to your capability, you gotta try everything, to motivate, to get them going. All of them have to be on the same end of the rope to pull together. It's playing for the name on the front of the shirt, not the back. Individualism gets you trophies and plaques. Play for the front, that wins championships. I try to remind them of that.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Winning, Play, Names

  "Q&A: Tommy Lasorda talks food, baseball and motivation, as only Mr. Dodger can". Interview with Tom Hoffarth, www.dailynews.com. July 15, 2013.

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• You can wake up every day and make today better than the last.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Wake Up, Today, Lasts

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• 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

  Baseball, Hard Work, People

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• The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

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• 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

  Basketball, Hands, Coaching

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• 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

  Writing, Catholic, Corinthians

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• If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Funny, Life, Jobs

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• 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.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Baseball, Smart, Team

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• The gym teacher's name was Mr. Caruso. Mr. Caruso did
  not speak English. He spoke 'Gym.' One day I was playing
  basketball and Mr. Caruso told me I would have to get
  an athletic supporter. He didn't express himself exactly
  that way, though. He said, 'Hey, you, one day you're gonna
  go up for a rebound and the family jewels aren't gonna
  go with ya.' I had no idea what he was talking about.
  Next day I showed up for practice without my watch and
  my mezuzah. He said, 'Did ya take care of the family jewels?'
  I said, 'I left 'em in my locker.' Took us a half hour to
  revive Mr. Caruso.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Basketball, Teacher, Speak English

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

  Tommy Lasorda

  Communication, Player, Appreciate

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• 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

  Depressing, Winning, Disappointed

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

  Tommy Lasorda

  Angel, Heaven, Dodgers

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• Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Sports, Long, People

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