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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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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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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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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
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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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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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My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.
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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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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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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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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 makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
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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'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
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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 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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Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.
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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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