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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?
Tommy Lasorda
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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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Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
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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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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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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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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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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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I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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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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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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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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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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My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.
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The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
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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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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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