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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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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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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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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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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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I am so happy and proud to learn of Hideo Nomo's election to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. He was quite a pitcher and competitor, but he is also a very special and caring person.
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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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Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
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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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My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.
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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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I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
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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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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 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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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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I'm so excited I had a seven-car police motorcycle escort. I've had escorts before, but nothing like this... I'm really in awe, coming here and seeing so many cars, so much enthusiasm.
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I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
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Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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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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