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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
Failure
Nothing
Like
Succeeds
Succeed

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Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
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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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I motivate players through communication, being honest with them, having them respect and appreciate your ability and your help.
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People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
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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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I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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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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Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
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I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
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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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About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
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Say 'Dodgers' and people know you're talking about baseball. Say 'Braves' and they ask, 'What reservation?' Say 'Reds' and they think of communism. Say 'Padres' and they look around for a priest.
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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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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.”
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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 makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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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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