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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
Team
Best
Shut
Baseball
Doors
Nobody
Goes

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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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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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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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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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When I was interviewed after I got hired to replace Walter Alston, a future Hall of Famer, I was asked: “Don’t you feel pressure on you?” I said: “Want to know something, I’m worried about the guy who’s going to have to replace me.”
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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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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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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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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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People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
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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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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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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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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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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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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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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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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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