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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
Baseball Player
Voice Actor
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Thomas Charles Lasorda
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There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.
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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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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
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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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I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter or anybody else's wife.
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People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
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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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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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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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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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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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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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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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The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.
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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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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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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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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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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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