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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 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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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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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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I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
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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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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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People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
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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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Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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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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Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
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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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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've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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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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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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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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