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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
Voice Actor
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Thomas Charles Lasorda
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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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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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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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The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
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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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Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
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Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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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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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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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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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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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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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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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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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 bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.
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