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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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I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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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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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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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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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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No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.
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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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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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I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
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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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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
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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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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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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 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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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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