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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
Voice Actor
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Thomas Charles Lasorda
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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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The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.
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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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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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My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.
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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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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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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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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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If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.
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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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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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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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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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The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
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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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