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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
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Thomas Charles Lasorda
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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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I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.
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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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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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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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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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The worst team in baseball's history won only 55 games. The best team ever won 110 out of 160, so you're virtually guaranteed to win 1/3 of the time and lose 1/3 of the time. The difference is the 1/3 in the middle. You don't know what bucket the game you're playing falls into, so if you're smart, you'll fight like everything for all of them.
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The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.
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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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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
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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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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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People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
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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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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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I motivate players through communication, being honest with them, having them respect and appreciate your ability and your help.
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Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
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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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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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