178 Quotes by Tommy Lasorda

If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.

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.

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

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.

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

I still remember the entire Boy Scout motto. I don't remember the serial number of my gun in the army. I don't remember the number of my locker in school. But I remember that Boy Scout code.

I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it.

You give loyalty, you'll get it back. You give love, you'll get it back.

All last year we tried to teach him (Fernando Valenzuela) English, and the only word he learned was million.