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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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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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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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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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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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I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
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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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About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
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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'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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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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Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
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My wife tells me one day, 'I think you love baseball more than me.' I say, 'Well, I guess that's true, but hey, I love you more than football and hockey.'
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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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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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The worst team in baseball's history won only 55 games. The best team ever won 110 out of 160, so you're virtually guaranteed to win 1/3 of the time and lose 1/3 of the time. The difference is the 1/3 in the middle. You don't know what bucket the game you're playing falls into, so if you're smart, you'll fight like everything for all of them.
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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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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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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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