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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.

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Tommy Lasorda
Age: 93 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 22
Died: 2021
Died: January 7
Baseball Manager
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Thomas Charles Lasorda
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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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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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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 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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I motivate players through communication, being honest with them, having them respect and appreciate your ability and your help.
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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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Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
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I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
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Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.
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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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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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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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I am so happy and proud to learn of Hideo Nomo's election to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. He was quite a pitcher and competitor, but he is also a very special and caring person.
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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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About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
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