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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
Succeed
Failure
Nothing
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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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People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.
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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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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 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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There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.
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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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Sometimes you've just got to let an umpire know that you're not satisfied with his decision. That they've missed the play in your opinion. Not that it's going to do you any good, but you've got to let them know.
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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
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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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About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
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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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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
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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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