Quotes from Tommy Lasorda

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

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

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

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.

I've had heroes in my life - Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth.

We're all put here for a reason. And one little movement changes your way of life.

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

I didn't even graduate from high school. I've never told anybody that before. I got my degree later, when I was in the army.

There are three kinds of people in this world: people who make it happen, people who watch what happens, and people who wonder what happened.

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

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.'

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

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.

Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?

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.

When you - when you become the manager of a major league team, particularly the Dodgers, to me, that's a privilege and an honor. No matter where you go or what you do, you represent that position that you have. And you represent that organization that gave you the opportunity to be doing what you're doing.

My wife tells me one day, 'I think you love baseball more than me.' I say, 'Well, I guess that's true, but hey, I love you more than football and hockey.'

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

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

I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?

I started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then to the big leagues. I never reached the level that I thought I would reach as a player. But that's the way it goes. So then I started from the bottom as a manager, and I worked my way up to managing the Dodgers for 20 years.

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

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

My son wasn't gay. No way.