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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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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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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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People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
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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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Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
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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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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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The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.
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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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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 was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
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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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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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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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About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
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Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
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I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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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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