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Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.

Tommy Lasorda

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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
Everybody
Winning
Doesn
Wants

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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'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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