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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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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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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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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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When you say you're a padre, people ask when did you become a parent. When you say you're a cardinal, they tell you to work hard because the next step is pope. But when you say you're a Dodger, everybody knows you're in the Major Leagues.
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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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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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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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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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Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
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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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Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.
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If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.
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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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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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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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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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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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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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About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
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