Tommy Lasorda Quotes

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

The difference between a home run and a swing-and-a-miss is, what, an inch and a half? You can throw a great pitch, the guy makes a great swing. And if it's at a guy, it's an out. That's the beauty of baseball, really. There's not just one guy in control.

Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

I love baseball. I have a huge passion to play the game.

In baseball, you don't know nothing.

There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.

Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!

You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen.

The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.

A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.

Baseball is a game of inches.

Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

I don't recall your name but you sure were a sucker for a high inside curve.

When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered.

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball and they tell you to hit it square.

That white man not only stood up at the plate but knocked the ball over the fence.

Can you believe it. That white man hit it out of the park.