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I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.

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Tommy Lasorda
Age: 93 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 22
Died: 2021
Died: January 7
Baseball Manager
Baseball Player
Voice Actor
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Thomas Charles Lasorda
Italians
Italy
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Team
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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 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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I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.
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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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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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Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.
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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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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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About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
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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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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 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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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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There are parents out there screaming as if their kid is going to be in the big leagues someday. C'mon. I chew them out if I see that. Maybe they've got their own idea how to do things, but it's wrong. Just be with the kids. Let 'em make errors. Give them all a chance. It's not about winning. It's spirit, togetherness.
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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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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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There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.
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