Tommy Lasorda Quotes

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.

Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.

I wanted to play baseball!

It's not really part of the game to say, 'Oh, it's a batter's game; it's a batter's game' - I don't know why it goes on. It's a beautiful game that's greatly competitive between bat and ball.

I played outfield in high school a little bit.

I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.

I pitched and I played the outfield.

Baseball is a team game.

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.

Baseball's what I do.

See the ball; hit the ball.

I played softball for three years.

I've played the outfield my whole life. It's like riding a bike.

As a kid, baseball was always my passion.

I play baseball. I don't deal with trades, free agency, any of that stuff.

In baseball, you don't know nothing.

My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn't tell me there's a thing called the curveball. I didn't know that. So the ball's coming at me and I start backing out, and then it broke inside. And the umpire says, 'Strike one!' And I'm saying, 'How is that a strike? It almost hit me!'

Baseball is a man maker.

I played Little League in junior high and high school.

Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You 'take in' a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.

The farmer doesn't care for the pitchers' battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching.

It's fun; baseball's fun.

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

I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.

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