Lasorda, fiery Hall of Fame Dodgers manager, dies at 93

Bummer, he was a character.

Some funny Tommy Lasorda quotes:

“My wife tells me one day, ‘I think you love baseball more than me.’ I say, ‘Well, I guess that’s true, but hey, I love you more than football and hockey.’”

“Say ‘Dodgers’ and people know you’re talking about baseball. Say ‘Braves’ and they ask, ‘What reservation?’ Say ‘Reds’ and they think of communism. Say ‘Padres’ and they look around for a priest.”

“The only Angels in Los Angeles are in heaven, and they’re looking down on the Dodgers.”

“Baseball is like driving, it’s the one who gets home safely that counts.”

“No matter how good you are, you’re going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are, you’re going to win one-third of your games. It’s the other third that makes the difference.”

“Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you’re up in the stands with them.”

“Nobody has to tell Frank Sinatra he is a good singer and nobody has to tell me that I am a good manager.”

“Guys ask me, don’t I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?”

“I walk into the clubhouse [nowadays] and it’s like walking into the Mayo Clinic. We have four doctors, three therapists and five trainers. Back when I broke in, we had one trainer who carried a bottle of rubbing alcohol and by the seventh inning he had drunk it all.”

“The only way I’d worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.”

“Eighty percent of the people who hear your troubles don’t care and the other 20% are glad you’re having them.”

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

RIP Tommy