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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

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My wife tells me one day, 'I think you love baseball more than me.' I say, 'Well, I guess that's true, but hey, I love you more than football and hockey.'
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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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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 was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
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The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
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I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
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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 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've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
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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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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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It's still the best game in town because you don't have to be big to play, and everybody plays. Even your grandmother probably played baseball.
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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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A second-guesser is one who doesn't know anything about the first guess, and he's one who needs 2 guesses to get one right.
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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 bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.
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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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I motivate players through communication, being honest with them, having them respect and appreciate your ability and your help.
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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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