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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
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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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Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
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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 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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About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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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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The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
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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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There are parents out there screaming as if their kid is going to be in the big leagues someday. C'mon. I chew them out if I see that. Maybe they've got their own idea how to do things, but it's wrong. Just be with the kids. Let 'em make errors. Give them all a chance. It's not about winning. It's spirit, togetherness.
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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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I started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then to the big leagues. I never reached the level that I thought I would reach as a player. But that's the way it goes. So then I started from the bottom as a manager, and I worked my way up to managing the Dodgers for 20 years.
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Say 'Dodgers' and people know you're talking about baseball. Say 'Braves' and they ask, 'What reservation?' Say 'Reds' and they think of communism. Say 'Padres' and they look around for a priest.
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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 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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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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I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
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I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
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