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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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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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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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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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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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There are parents out there screaming as if their kid is going to be in the big leagues someday. C'mon. I chew them out if I see that. Maybe they've got their own idea how to do things, but it's wrong. Just be with the kids. Let 'em make errors. Give them all a chance. It's not about winning. It's spirit, togetherness.
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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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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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The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
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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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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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When I took the job as the manager of the Olympic team, I didn't take it because I was a Dodger. I did it because I was an American, and I wanted to bring that gold medal where it belongs in baseball, the United States. And that's exactly what our team did.
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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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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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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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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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Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.
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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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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
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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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