Tommy Lasorda Quotes

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

I'll admit - I was honored to be on the cover of Time.

Having 'Oscar winner' on your tombstone is a great thing.

It's a really big deal to have a star on the Walk of Fame; it feels like an incredible achievement.

I had never thought that so many people would know me, will talk about me, and most of all, I will be given a National Award.

It's an honor to be at the biggest club in the world.

I am really happy to have been selected by Madame Tussauds.

You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.

I'm not aiming for an Academy Award.

I am still the same person doing the same science. Why are people so impressed when some academy in Sweden gives an award?

I knew I'd made it when my face appeared on a stamp.

If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.

The only thing worse than being in the Hall of Fame is not being in the Hall of Fame.

I hope I can make Pakistan proud by bringing home an Oscar.

I've never been one to chase awards or anything like that, to be honest.

It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before.

Fame and success are very different things.

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.

My emotions are very simple and always have been about the Hall of Fame. It's something that I had absolutely nothing to do with and had no control over, so I never thought much about it, to be frank.

I have a box of awards in the closet. I think it is weird to put them out. I might if I had an Emmy or Oscar, but I don't.

I never went out looking for glory.

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.