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The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.

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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
Motivational
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Years
Saddest
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Seasons
Baseball

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Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
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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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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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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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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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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher.
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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 best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
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Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
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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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I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.
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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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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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My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.
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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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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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Say 'Dodgers' and people know you're talking about baseball. Say 'Braves' and they ask, 'What reservation?' Say 'Reds' and they think of communism. Say 'Padres' and they look around for a priest.
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People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
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