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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
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Thomas Charles Lasorda
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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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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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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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Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
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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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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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Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
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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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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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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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The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
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Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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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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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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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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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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