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About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
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've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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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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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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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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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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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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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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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 bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.
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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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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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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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The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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There are parents out there screaming as if their kid is going to be in the big leagues someday. C'mon. I chew them out if I see that. Maybe they've got their own idea how to do things, but it's wrong. Just be with the kids. Let 'em make errors. Give them all a chance. It's not about winning. It's spirit, togetherness.
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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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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
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