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Tommy Lasorda
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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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I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.
Tommy Lasorda
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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I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
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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.
Tommy Lasorda
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.
Tommy Lasorda
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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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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Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
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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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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
Tommy Lasorda
The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.
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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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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.
Tommy Lasorda
Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
Tommy Lasorda
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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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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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.”
Tommy Lasorda
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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