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Grownups have to say 'please,' too.

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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
Grownups
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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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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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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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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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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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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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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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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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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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People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
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I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
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I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
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I motivate players through communication, being honest with them, having them respect and appreciate your ability and your help.
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A second-guesser is one who doesn't know anything about the first guess, and he's one who needs 2 guesses to get one right.
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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
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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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My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.
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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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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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About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
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