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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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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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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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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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If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.
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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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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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I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
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I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
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Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
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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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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'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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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 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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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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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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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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