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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
Baseball Manager
Baseball Player
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Norristown
Pennsylvania
Thomas Charles Lasorda
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People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
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I motivate players through communication, being honest with them, having them respect and appreciate your ability and your help.
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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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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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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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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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I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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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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Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
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I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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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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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'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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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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A second-guesser is one who doesn't know anything about the first guess, and he's one who needs 2 guesses to get one right.
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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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