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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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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
Angeles
Angels
Angel
Looking
Heaven
Dodgers

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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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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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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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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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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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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
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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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Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
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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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Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
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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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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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The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
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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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There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.
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I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
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I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
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