Tommy Lasorda
Tommy Lasorda
Thomas Charles "Tommy" Lasordais a former Major League baseball player who has had a lengthy career in sports management. In 2009, he marked his sixth decade in one capacity or another with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers organization, the longest non-continuoustenure anyone has had with the team, edging Dodger broadcaster Vin Scully by a single season. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame as a manager in 1997...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth22 September 1927
CityNorristown, PA
CountryUnited States of America
I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
Do you know how many countries are represented in the Olympics, and how many sports, and how many athletes? ... A lot. A lot. But no Americans in baseball? Why? Why? It's sad. Very sad.
Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.
Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.
Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.
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?
Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
I was in awe of playing on that (1955) team,