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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!
Tommy Lasorda
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Tommy Lasorda
Age: 93 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 22
Died: 2021
Died: January 7
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Thomas Charles Lasorda
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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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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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About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
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