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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

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Tommy Lasorda
Age: 93 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 22
Died: 2021
Died: January 7
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Thomas Charles Lasorda
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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 got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
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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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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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I'm so excited I had a seven-car police motorcycle escort. I've had escorts before, but nothing like this... I'm really in awe, coming here and seeing so many cars, so much enthusiasm.
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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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It's still the best game in town because you don't have to be big to play, and everybody plays. Even your grandmother probably played baseball.
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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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About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
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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 you - when you become the manager of a major league team, particularly the Dodgers, to me, that's a privilege and an honor. No matter where you go or what you do, you represent that position that you have. And you represent that organization that gave you the opportunity to be doing what you're doing.
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The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.
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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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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.
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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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I've been Catholic all my life, and there's one thing I've never understood. Why didn't the Corinthians write back?
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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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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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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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