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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.

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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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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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I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
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Say 'Dodgers' and people know you're talking about baseball. Say 'Braves' and they ask, 'What reservation?' Say 'Reds' and they think of communism. Say 'Padres' and they look around for a priest.
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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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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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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 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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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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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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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
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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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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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Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
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Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
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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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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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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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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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