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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
Sports
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Losing
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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'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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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.
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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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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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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.
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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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