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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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Norristown
Pennsylvania
Thomas Charles Lasorda
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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.
Tommy Lasorda
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.
Tommy Lasorda
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.
Tommy Lasorda
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!
Tommy Lasorda
I wasn't quite sure how a player got to the big leagues. As far as I knew, he was just there one day.
Tommy Lasorda
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
Tommy Lasorda
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
Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
Tommy Lasorda
Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
Tommy Lasorda
I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
Tommy Lasorda
The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.
Tommy Lasorda
Sometimes you've just got to let an umpire know that you're not satisfied with his decision. That they've missed the play in your opinion. Not that it's going to do you any good, but you've got to let them know.
Tommy Lasorda
Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
Tommy Lasorda
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?
Tommy Lasorda
Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
Tommy Lasorda
There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.
Tommy Lasorda
People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
Tommy Lasorda
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.
Tommy Lasorda
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.
Tommy Lasorda
