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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
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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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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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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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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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The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
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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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I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
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Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
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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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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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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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Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.
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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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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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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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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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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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I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.
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