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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
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Pennsylvania
Thomas Charles 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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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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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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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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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.
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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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Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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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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Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?
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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.
Tommy Lasorda
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 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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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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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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The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.
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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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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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Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
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