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

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

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

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

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