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All Quotes by author - Tommy Lasorda

" About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure. "

" Always give an autograph when somebody asks you. "

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

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

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

" Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win. "

" Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers. "

" Everywhere I go, I feel strange. "

" Grownups have to say 'please,' too. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it. "

" I bleed Dodger blue! "

" I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky. "

" 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. "

" I do not care whether you're a Democrat or you're a Republican or an independent. We must pull for the people who are wearing the uniform of the armed forces. These people weren't drafted. They enlisted, because they believe. "

" 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. "

" If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven. "

" If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life. "

" I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer. "

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

" 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. "

" I still remember the entire Boy Scout motto. I don't remember the serial number of my gun in the army. I don't remember the number of my locker in school. But I remember that Boy Scout code. "

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

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

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

" I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter... or anybody else's wife. "

" I was fortunate enough to coach the U.S. Olympic team in Australia. "

" Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them. "

" 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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