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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
Baseball Player
Voice Actor
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Thomas Charles Lasorda
Motivational
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Sports
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Losing

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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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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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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 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.
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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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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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Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.
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Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
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It's still the best game in town because you don't have to be big to play, and everybody plays. Even your grandmother probably played baseball.
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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
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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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When I was interviewed after I got hired to replace Walter Alston, a future Hall of Famer, I was asked: “Don’t you feel pressure on you?” I said: “Want to know something, I’m worried about the guy who’s going to have to replace me.”
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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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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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I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
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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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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
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Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
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