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I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.

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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
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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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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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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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If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.
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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 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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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 best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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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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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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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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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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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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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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My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.
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