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Tommy Lasorda
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Tommy Lasorda
Age: 93 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 22
Died: 2021
Died: January 7
Baseball Manager
Baseball Player
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Norristown
Pennsylvania
Thomas Charles Lasorda
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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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I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
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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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People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
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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 telling you, I don't like cheaters.
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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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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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If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.
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Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?
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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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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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The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
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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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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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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it not hard enough and it flies away.
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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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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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