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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 saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
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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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People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
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I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
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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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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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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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My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.
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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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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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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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The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on 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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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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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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You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you've got to shut the doors down.
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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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