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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
Succeeds
Succeed
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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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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Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
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I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
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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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I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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When you say you're a padre, people ask when did you become a parent. When you say you're a cardinal, they tell you to work hard because the next step is pope. But when you say you're a Dodger, everybody knows you're in the Major Leagues.
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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 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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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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