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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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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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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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Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
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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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Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.
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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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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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I motivate players through communication, being honest with them, having them respect and appreciate your ability and your help.
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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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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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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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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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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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My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.
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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
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