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If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.
Tommy Lasorda
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Tommy Lasorda
Age: 93 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 22
Died: 2021
Died: January 7
Baseball Manager
Baseball Player
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Norristown
Pennsylvania
Thomas Charles Lasorda
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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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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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I'm so excited I had a seven-car police motorcycle escort. I've had escorts before, but nothing like this... I'm really in awe, coming here and seeing so many cars, so much enthusiasm.
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Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.
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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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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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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
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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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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
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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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About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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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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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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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 started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then to the big leagues. I never reached the level that I thought I would reach as a player. But that's the way it goes. So then I started from the bottom as a manager, and I worked my way up to managing the Dodgers for 20 years.
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I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
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