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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
Nothing
Like
Succeeds
Succeed
Failure

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Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it not hard enough and it flies away.
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The worst team in baseball's history won only 55 games. The best team ever won 110 out of 160, so you're virtually guaranteed to win 1/3 of the time and lose 1/3 of the time. The difference is the 1/3 in the middle. You don't know what bucket the game you're playing falls into, so if you're smart, you'll fight like everything for all of them.
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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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My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.
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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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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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People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
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I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
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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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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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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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I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.
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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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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.
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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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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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