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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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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 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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When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher.
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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
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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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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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Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
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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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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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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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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 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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Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
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I motivate players through communication, being honest with them, having them respect and appreciate your ability and your help.
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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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I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.
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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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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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