Tommy Lasorda Quotes

Never bet on baseball.

The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.

Any of the the 30 ball clubs have a chance at success, and the fans know that. It keeps everything exciting.

Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.

In baseball 30 days is an eternity.

In this game called football, we don't know who's going to the playoffs.

In football, whatever can happen can happen when the team performs well and sometimes when the team does not perform as well.

Football is so difficult to predict.

You never know from week to week how one team is going to attack you versus another team.

That's the unpredictable part, and that's what worries every coach: Protect the football. That's why, when you go into a ballgame, you may be favored, but there's no guarantee you're going to win it.

I guess show business is a lot like baseball: "Wait until next year!" You just never know. Some of the shittiest shows I've ever seen run forever, and some of the best things never get a chance.

If teams keep playing us this way, it's going to be like this.

Every team is beatable, you never know. The right moment, the right time, every team is beatable.

In 1960 when Pittsburgh beat us in the World Series, we outscored them 55-27. It was the only time I think the better team lost. I was so disappointed I cried on the plane ride home.

We scored a season-high, yeah - albeit against a team that is somewhat tanking.

Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in which even champions lost almost as often as they won, and even the best hitters were put out seventy percent of the time.

The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games...the losing team can only win one out of three.

I mean, I think we are a better team than last year offensively, but there is always a question with the Minnesota Twins. We'll just have to wait and see.

Yes, in baseball when the team stinks, you fire the manager. But you don't fire him because it rains. And you don't let the opposing team choose a new manager for you. And you don't fire him between innings. And replace him with a Viennese weightlifter.

Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some - or occasionally lose.

You're always struggling because you're not playing on a 53-and-a-third by a 120-yard field. You're not playing on a baseball diamond. With golf, every field is different and every atmosphere is different. The grass is different. The weather is different. You're outside. You're not in a stadium. There are so many different variables, so you never master golf. So, I think good athletes like a challenge.

It's tough, it's not the scenario that we wanted for sure. I thought our desperation was there, we worked hard, but it was one game, a lot can happen, they're a good team, and unfortunately we didn't win. We had some bad bounces, and in one game those make a big difference, and unfortunately it didn't go our way. But if we play hard like that, we play desperate like that and control the puck the way we did down low, I like our chances against any team.

I don't know any other other team that got to the finals without two all stars.

At the end of six innings of play, it's Montreal 5, Expos 3.

Whether we have the best individual players doesnt matter, you have to have the best team