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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
Shut
Baseball
Doors
Nobody
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Team
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Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
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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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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
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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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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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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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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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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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I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
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Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.
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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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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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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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