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Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?

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Tommy Lasorda
Age: 93 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 22
Died: 2021
Died: January 7
Baseball Manager
Baseball Player
Voice Actor
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Thomas Charles Lasorda
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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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My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.
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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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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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The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.
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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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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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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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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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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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The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
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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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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 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 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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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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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 motivate players through communication, being honest with them, having them respect and appreciate your ability and your help.
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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it not hard enough and it flies away.
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