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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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Tommy Lasorda
Age: 93 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 22
Died: 2021
Died: January 7
Baseball Manager
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Norristown
Pennsylvania
Thomas Charles Lasorda
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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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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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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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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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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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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'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
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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 motivate players through communication, being honest with them, having them respect and appreciate your ability and your help.
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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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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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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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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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Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
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