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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
Baseball Player
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Norristown
Pennsylvania
Thomas Charles Lasorda
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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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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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It's still the best game in town because you don't have to be big to play, and everybody plays. Even your grandmother probably played baseball.
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I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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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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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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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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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
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Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
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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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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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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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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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I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
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There are parents out there screaming as if their kid is going to be in the big leagues someday. C'mon. I chew them out if I see that. Maybe they've got their own idea how to do things, but it's wrong. Just be with the kids. Let 'em make errors. Give them all a chance. It's not about winning. It's spirit, togetherness.
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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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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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