Tommy Lasorda Quotes - Page 3

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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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  Baseball, Caring, Special

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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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  Heaven, May, Chance

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• Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.

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  Sports, Baseball, Home

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.

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  Sports, Weather, Snow

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• When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we're rained out.

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  Food, Winning, Cooking

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• I managed the Dodgers for 20 years. It's hard to believe that there are only four guys in the history of baseball who managed the same team for 20 years or more. One was owner of the team, Connie Mack. Another was part owner of the team, John McGraw. Then there was my predecessor, Walter Alston, and me. It's amazing. In the 20 years I managed the Dodgers, 210 managers were fired.

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  Baseball, Team, Believe

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• I didn't even graduate from high school. I've never told anybody that before. I got my degree later, when I was in the army.

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  School, Army, Degrees

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• I've had heroes in my life - Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth.

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  Hero, Ruth, Babe

  "Marine Cpl. Nicholas Kimmel, Triple-Amputee Veteran, Throws Strike At MLB World Series Game 2", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2012.

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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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  Baseball, Thinking, Talking

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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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  Baseball, Player, Years

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• Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?

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  Girl, Sports, Life And Love

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• Ernie Banks was a great great player and when he no longer could play, he became a great ambassador for the game. He represented the game with the highest of class and dignity. Everybody loved Ernie Banks. He enjoyed baseball, life and people. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family. We have truly lost a baseball giant.

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  Baseball, Prayer, Player

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• Chan Ho had a great career and was the exemplification of class, dignity and character.

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  Character, Class, Careers

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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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  Daughter, Wife, Used

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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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  Baseball, Jobs, Team

  "Tommy Lasorda Talks the Future of Baseball". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. February 23, 2006.

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• I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'

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  Sports, World

  "Power play - how the City of Angels gets its kicks", www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2000.

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• I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?

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  Portraits, Happens, Smithsonian

  "Q&A: Tommy Lasorda talks food, baseball and motivation, as only Mr. Dodger can". Q&A, www.dailynews.com. July 15, 2013.

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• My son wasn't gay. No way.

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  Son, Gay, Way

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• I firmly believe that there is a God. I firmly believe that there is a Heaven. And I firmly believe that if you go there, it's gonna be great.

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  Believe, Heaven, Ifs

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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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  People, Looks, Use

  "Q&A: Tommy Lasorda talks food, baseball and motivation, as only Mr. Dodger can". Interview with Tom Hoffarth, www.dailynews.com. July 15, 2013.

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• I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.

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  Funny, Team, Winning

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• Baseball is played by all countries now, and softball, too.

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  Softball, Baseball, Country

  "Baseball: Baseball Suffers Olympic Strike 3". www.mirror.co.uk. July 9, 2005.

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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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  Names, Two, Asteroids

  "Q&A: Tommy Lasorda talks food, baseball and motivation, as only Mr. Dodger can". Interview with Tom Hoffarth, www.dailynews.com. July 15, 2013.

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• I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.

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  Cheater

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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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  Baseball, Grandmother, Games

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