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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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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
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Heaven
May
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Dodgers

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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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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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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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People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
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When you - when you become the manager of a major league team, particularly the Dodgers, to me, that's a privilege and an honor. No matter where you go or what you do, you represent that position that you have. And you represent that organization that gave you the opportunity to be doing what you're doing.
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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
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Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
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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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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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The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.
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Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.
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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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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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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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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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I've been Catholic all my life, and there's one thing I've never understood. Why didn't the Corinthians write back?
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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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My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.
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