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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.
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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Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
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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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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
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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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The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
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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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About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
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I motivate players through communication, being honest with them, having them respect and appreciate your ability and your help.
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When you - when you become the manager of a major league team, particularly the Dodgers, to me, that's a privilege and an honor. No matter where you go or what you do, you represent that position that you have. And you represent that organization that gave you the opportunity to be doing what you're doing.
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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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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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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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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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The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.
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I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
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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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