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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
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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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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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I wasn't quite sure how a player got to the big leagues. As far as I knew, he was just there one day.
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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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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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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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I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
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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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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
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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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My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.
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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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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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If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.
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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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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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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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