178 Quotes by Tommy Lasorda

Nothing succeeds like – failure.

I was told to stay away from pasta and bread for two weeks. Not eating pasta? That’ll kill me. Anything else, but why pasta?

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.

Caltech honored me – they named an asteroid after me. There’s only two of them up there with names. One of them is Walter Cronkite. The other is Tommy Lasorda.

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.

You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you’ve got to shut the doors down.

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

If you’d see my schedule, you’d know I have no time to slow down.

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.