Motivation Quote by Tommy Lasorda

Lasorda’s line is a masterclass in competitive tunnel vision dressed up as a joke. On the surface, it’s a crack about snow. Underneath, it’s a worldview: the coach’s job isn’t to obsess over conditions, luck, or cosmic fairness; it’s to get players to stop bargaining with excuses. Weather is the oldest alibi in sports, the ready-made story you reach for when your mechanics slip or your confidence wobbles. Lasorda turns that impulse into something laughable. If the snow falls equally, it’s not a problem, it’s the game. If it falls unevenly, then yes, complain - because now it’s not adversity, it’s asymmetry.

That distinction matters. He’s not preaching stoic indifference; he’s policing where attention goes. A team that spends mental energy on the uncontrollable bleeds focus from the controllable: preparation, adjustments, hustle, the next pitch. By making the only “acceptable” grievance a cartoonishly unfair scenario, he resets the baseline. Anything short of blatant imbalance becomes noise.

The context is pure Lasorda: old-school clubhouse psychology, humor as discipline, motivation without sermonizing. Coaches often talk about “playing the game the right way,” which can sound like moral fog. Lasorda’s version is crisp: stop looking at the sky for permission to lose. If you’re going to worry, worry about something that actually changes the score - or better yet, worry about making sure the field never feels tilted, no matter what the weather does.