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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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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
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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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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 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 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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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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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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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.
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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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The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
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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 saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
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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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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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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
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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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