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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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Tommy Lasorda
Age: 93 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 22
Died: 2021
Died: January 7
Baseball Manager
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Norristown
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Thomas Charles Lasorda
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You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you've got to shut the doors down.
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People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
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When I took the job as the manager of the Olympic team, I didn't take it because I was a Dodger. I did it because I was an American, and I wanted to bring that gold medal where it belongs in baseball, the United States. And that's exactly what our team did.
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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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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'm so excited I had a seven-car police motorcycle escort. I've had escorts before, but nothing like this... I'm really in awe, coming here and seeing so many cars, so much enthusiasm.
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No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.
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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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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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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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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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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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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'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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