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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
Chance
Heaven
May
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Love
Dodgers

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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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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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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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I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.
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I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
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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 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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Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
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The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
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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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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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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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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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The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.
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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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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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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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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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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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