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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
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Saddest

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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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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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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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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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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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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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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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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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About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
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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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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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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 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'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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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
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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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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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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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