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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.

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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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Straight
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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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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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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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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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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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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 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 love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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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'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
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The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
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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 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 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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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher.
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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
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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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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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I motivate players through communication, being honest with them, having them respect and appreciate your ability and your help.
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