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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.
Tommy Lasorda
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Tommy Lasorda
Age: 93 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 22
Died: 2021
Died: January 7
Baseball Manager
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Thomas Charles Lasorda
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Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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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 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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I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
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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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Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
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Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.
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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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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 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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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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I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.
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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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About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
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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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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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The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
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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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