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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 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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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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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
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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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There are parents out there screaming as if their kid is going to be in the big leagues someday. C'mon. I chew them out if I see that. Maybe they've got their own idea how to do things, but it's wrong. Just be with the kids. Let 'em make errors. Give them all a chance. It's not about winning. It's spirit, togetherness.
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I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
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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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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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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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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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The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.
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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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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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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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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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If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.
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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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