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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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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
Player
Honest
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Motivate
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Communication
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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 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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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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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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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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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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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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The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
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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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Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
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I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
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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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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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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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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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People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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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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I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
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