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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.
Tommy Lasorda
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Tommy Lasorda
Age: 93 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 22
Died: 2021
Died: January 7
Baseball Manager
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Thomas Charles Lasorda
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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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Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.
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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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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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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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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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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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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
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I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
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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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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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The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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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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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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Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
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