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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
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Failure
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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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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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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'm so excited I had a seven-car police motorcycle escort. I've had escorts before, but nothing like this... I'm really in awe, coming here and seeing so many cars, so much enthusiasm.
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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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Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
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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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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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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 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher.
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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've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
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Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
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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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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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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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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'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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