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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'

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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
Capital
Sport
Sports
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World

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Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
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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 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'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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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
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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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I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
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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 best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
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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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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
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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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Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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