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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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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
Nobody
Goes
Team
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Baseball
Doors

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I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
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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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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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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 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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People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
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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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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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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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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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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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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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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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About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
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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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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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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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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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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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