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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'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 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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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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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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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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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 best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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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 bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.
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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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Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.
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I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
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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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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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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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Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
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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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