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It's still the best game in town because you don't have to be big to play, and everybody plays. Even your grandmother probably played baseball.

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Tommy Lasorda
Age: 93 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 22
Died: 2021
Died: January 7
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Thomas Charles Lasorda
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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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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'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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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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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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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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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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If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.
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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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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 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 bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.
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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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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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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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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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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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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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