178 Quotes by Tommy Lasorda

They could never beat me in Springfield. I loved that old ballpark. If I could have pitched there all my career, I'd be a 300-game winner.

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

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

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.

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

'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.

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

Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.

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.