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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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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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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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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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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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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
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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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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
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When you say you're a padre, people ask when did you become a parent. When you say you're a cardinal, they tell you to work hard because the next step is pope. But when you say you're a Dodger, everybody knows you're in the Major Leagues.
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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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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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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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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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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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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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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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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
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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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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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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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