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I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
Tommy Lasorda
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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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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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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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My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.
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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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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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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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Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?
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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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About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
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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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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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Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
Tommy Lasorda
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.
Tommy Lasorda
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.
Tommy Lasorda
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.
Tommy Lasorda
I've been Catholic all my life, and there's one thing I've never understood. Why didn't the Corinthians write back?
Tommy Lasorda
If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.
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