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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
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Norristown
Pennsylvania
Thomas Charles Lasorda
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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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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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Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
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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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About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
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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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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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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 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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I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
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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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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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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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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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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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Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.
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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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