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There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

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Tommy Lasorda
Age: 93 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 22
Died: 2021
Died: January 7
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Norristown
Pennsylvania
Thomas Charles Lasorda
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I am so happy and proud to learn of Hideo Nomo's election to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. He was quite a pitcher and competitor, but he is also a very special and caring person.
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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.
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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.'
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I don't like the pitch count! How are you gonna develop your arm? If you're a track man you say, Hey, you can't run too much. Or if you're a boxer you say, Hey, you can only box three rounds. It's not right!
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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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When you say you're a padre, people ask when did you become a parent. When you say you're a cardinal, they tell you to work hard because the next step is pope. But when you say you're a Dodger, everybody knows you're in the Major Leagues.
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When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher.
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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.
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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.
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I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter or anybody else's wife.
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The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
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Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.
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I started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then to the big leagues. I never reached the level that I thought I would reach as a player. But that's the way it goes. So then I started from the bottom as a manager, and I worked my way up to managing the Dodgers for 20 years.
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I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
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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.
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Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.
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Caltech honored me -- they named an asteroid after me. There's only two of them up there with names. One of them is Walter Cronkite. The other is Tommy Lasorda.
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