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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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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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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've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.
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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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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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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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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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The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.
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The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
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Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
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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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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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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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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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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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The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
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