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?
Tommy LasordaRead
There are three kinds of people in this world: people who make it happen, people who watch what happens, and people who wonder what happened.
Interpretation
The quote categorizes people based on their level of engagement in life's events.
Tommy Lasorda's quote highlights three distinct attitudes individuals can have towards life and their surroundings. It suggests that proactive individuals take charge and create opportunities, observant people witness events unfold without participating, while indifferent individuals are left confused, trying to comprehend what took place. This classification serves as a motivational reminder for individuals to choose to be doers rather than passive observers or bystanders.
In practice
In a motivational speech to encourage entrepreneurship.
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?
Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.
Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
When I took the job as the manager of the Olympic team, I didn't take it because I was a Dodger. I did it because I was an American, and I wanted to bring that gold medal where it belongs in baseball, the United States. And that's exactly what our team did.
I walk into the clubhouse today 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 7th inning he'd already drunk it.
The worst team in baseball's history won only 55 games. The best team ever won 110 out of 160, so you're virtually guaranteed to win 1/3 of the time and lose 1/3 of the time. The difference is the 1/3 in the middle. You don't know what bucket the game you're playing falls into, so if you're smart, you'll fight like everything for all of them.
Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don't have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.
Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
When men are employed they are best contented.
The world is filled with interesting things to do. Don't lead a dull life in such a thrilling world.
If you are relaxing and subconsciously thinking about your coming race, you are going to perform at just about 100 percent efficiency.
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