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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
Sports
Called
Always
World
Capital
Sport

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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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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.
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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've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
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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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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 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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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.
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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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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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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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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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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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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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