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I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?

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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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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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The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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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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Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.
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My wife tells me one day, 'I think you love baseball more than me.' I say, 'Well, I guess that's true, but hey, I love you more than football and hockey.'
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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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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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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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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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Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
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Say 'Dodgers' and people know you're talking about baseball. Say 'Braves' and they ask, 'What reservation?' Say 'Reds' and they think of communism. Say 'Padres' and they look around for a priest.
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Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
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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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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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If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.
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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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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 telling you, I don't like cheaters.
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