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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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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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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
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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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If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.
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It's still the best game in town because you don't have to be big to play, and everybody plays. Even your grandmother probably played baseball.
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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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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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When you say you're a padre, people ask when did you become a parent. When you say you're a cardinal, they tell you to work hard because the next step is pope. But when you say you're a Dodger, everybody knows you're in the Major Leagues.
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