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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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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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Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
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The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
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When I was interviewed after I got hired to replace Walter Alston, a future Hall of Famer, I was asked: “Don’t you feel pressure on you?” I said: “Want to know something, I’m worried about the guy who’s going to have to replace me.”
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People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
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Sometimes you've just got to let an umpire know that you're not satisfied with his decision. That they've missed the play in your opinion. Not that it's going to do you any good, but you've got to let them know.
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I wasn't quite sure how a player got to the big leagues. As far as I knew, he was just there one day.
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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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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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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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I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
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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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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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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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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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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
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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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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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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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About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
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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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