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

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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
Wants
Everybody
Winning
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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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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
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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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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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