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Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.

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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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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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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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I motivate players through communication, being honest with them, having them respect and appreciate your ability and your help.
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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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Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.
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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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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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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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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 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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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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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 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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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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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 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 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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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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