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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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If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.
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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 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'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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The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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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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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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Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
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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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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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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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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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Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?
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Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
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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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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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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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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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My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.
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