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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and 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
Dodgers
Baseball
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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
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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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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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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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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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People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
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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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Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
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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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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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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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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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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 bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.
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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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