Tommy Lasorda Quotes

I've been a Brewers fan since birth.

I'm forever a Pittsburgh Pirates fan. Apparently I've picked the worst baseball team in the world.

I'm a baseball freak.

I bleed Dodger blue!

I'm a big Clippers fan. I have season tickets to the Clippers. That's the only team I really root for in any sport.

I grew up a Dodger and got drafted by the Dodgers.

The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.

I can't be the Mayor of L.A. I hate the Dodgers. I'm a Yankee fan. Yankee fans can't ever root for the Dodgers.

I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.

The biggest impact I can have for what I want to do, the results I want to have with what God's given me, is to help as many people as possible get to heaven.

There are so many things in my life that would be completely not on within the conservative church. And yet I think of myself as a reasonably decent human being. With all sorts of flaws, you know, but still reasonably decent. If I did believe in Heaven and Hell, I would really, honestly, believe I was going to go to Heaven.

If you look around us, there are an awful lot of men out there, and women, but mostly men, who believe that they have got a fast-track path to Heaven, if they do the things that they believe God is telling them to do, and I don't just mean Islamic people. I mean Fundamentalist Christians.

I'm a California Angels fan because that's the first game my dad took me to see, and they stuck with me.

When she was too young to resist, or even to understand, I turned my daughter into a lifelong, rabid Yankees fan.

There are certain guys that think they know hockey because they follow it on the Internet.

But that a camel-merchant should stir up insurrection in his village; that in league with some miserable followers he persuades them that he talks with the angel Gabriel; that he boasts of having been carried to heaven, where he received in part this unintelligible book, each page of which makes common sense shudder; that, to pay homage to this book, he delivers his country to iron and flame; that he cuts the throats of fathers and kidnaps daughters; that he gives to the defeated the choice of his religion or death: this is assuredly nothing any man can excuse, at least if he was not born a Turk, or if superstition has not extinguished all natural light in him.

I can't quote stats from another decade. I've got friends that can do that. But I am a huge sports fan. In fact, I enjoy all sports, and when I enjoy a game for five minutes, I'm in it for the whole thing. Plus, I do have some teams I loyally follow.

I'm a Detroit Tigers fan through and through.

I just consider Boston and New England incredible sports fans. If they give me trouble, think I'm rooting for other side, it's mainly because they're living and dying with every pitch and every play and think I'm rooting for the other side. I'd much rather that than apathy.

Interest in a sport peaks during its championship season. That's when even casual observers turn on their television sets, and lifelong fans are born.

I grew up a Lakers and a Clippers fan.

We haven't won a Super Bowl in, I think, 50 years, so the Jets fans who are out there are die-hard Jets fans. It's like generational fandom.

I've been a sports fan forever.

The Palermo supporters are very passionate, but the Azzurri fans are unique.

I'm a baseball fan. I always pulled for where the Dominican players play.