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

People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.

Tommy Lasorda

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.

Tommy Lasorda

My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.

Tommy Lasorda

The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.

Tommy Lasorda

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

My goal is to live to be 100.

Tommy Lasorda

When I was interviewed after I got hired to replace Walter Alston, a future Hall of Famer, I was asked: 'Don't you feel pressure on you?' I said: 'Want to know something? I'm worried about the guy who's going to have to replace me.'

Tommy Lasorda

Sometimes you've just got to let an umpire know that you're not satisfied with his decision. That they've missed the play in your opinion. Not that it's going to do you any good, but you've got to let them know.

Tommy Lasorda

I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer.

Tommy Lasorda

I bleed Dodger blue!

Tommy Lasorda

'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

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

Tommy Lasorda

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

One time I was doing a speech to a group of kids, and just before I get there, I see this little kid crying. I found out they just lost a game, and he was the losing pitcher. I went over there, put my arm around him, and said, 'What are you crying for? When major league players lose, they don't cry.'

Tommy Lasorda

I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'

Tommy Lasorda

Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.

Tommy Lasorda

Everywhere I go, I feel strange.

Tommy Lasorda

No, we don't cheat. And even if we did, I'd never tell you.

Tommy Lasorda

When I took the job as the manager of the Olympic team, I didn't take it because I was a Dodger. I did it because I was an American, and I wanted to bring that gold medal where it belongs in baseball, the United States. And that's exactly what our team did.

Tommy Lasorda

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

Tommy Lasorda

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

Tommy Lasorda

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

Tommy Lasorda

I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.

Tommy Lasorda

Sometimes, you get too hopped up, too excited, and it works against you.

Tommy Lasorda

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

Tommy Lasorda

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

When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher.

Tommy Lasorda

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

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.

Tommy Lasorda

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

Tommy Lasorda

I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter... or anybody else's wife.

Tommy Lasorda

Baseball is played by all countries now, and softball, too.

Tommy Lasorda

Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.

Tommy Lasorda

I do not care whether you're a Democrat or you're a Republican or an independent. We must pull for the people who are wearing the uniform of the armed forces. These people weren't drafted. They enlisted, because they believe.

Tommy Lasorda

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.

Tommy Lasorda