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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
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Norristown
Pennsylvania
Thomas Charles Lasorda
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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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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 only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.
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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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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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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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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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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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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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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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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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Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.
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Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
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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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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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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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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
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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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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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