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People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.

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Tommy Lasorda
Age: 93 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 22
Died: 2021
Died: January 7
Baseball Manager
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Norristown
Pennsylvania
Thomas Charles Lasorda
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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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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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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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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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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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The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher.
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My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.
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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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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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Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
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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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If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.
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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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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'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
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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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Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.
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