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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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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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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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Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.
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I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
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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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People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
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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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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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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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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 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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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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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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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 saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
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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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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 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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The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.
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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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