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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
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Norristown
Pennsylvania
Thomas Charles Lasorda
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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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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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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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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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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've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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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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The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
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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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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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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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If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.
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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
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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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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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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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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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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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