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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
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Norristown
Pennsylvania
Thomas Charles Lasorda
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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 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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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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If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.
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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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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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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
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You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you've got to shut the doors down.
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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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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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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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Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
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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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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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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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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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