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Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.

Tommy Lasorda

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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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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 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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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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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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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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The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.
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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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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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About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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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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Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
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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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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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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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