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" Everywhere I go, I feel strange. "
Tommy Lasorda
Strange
Go
Feel
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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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" I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.' "
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" No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are, you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference. "
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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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" I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky. "
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" My son wasn't gay. No way. "
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" Sometimes, you get too hopped up, too excited, and it works against you. "
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" I've had heroes in my life - Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth. "
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" Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path. "
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" Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts. "
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" Sometimes you've just got to let an umpire know that you're not satisfied with his decision. That they've missed the play in your opinion. Not that it's going to do you any good, but you've got to let them know. "
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Know
" You can wake up every day and make today better than the last. "
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Today
Better
" Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win. "
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Everybody
Wants
" I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer. "
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Get
I Love
" 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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Pressure
Feel
" 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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" About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure. "
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Failure
You
" People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not. "
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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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Heaven
Go
Believe
" 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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Field
Worry
" 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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Love
You
Tired
" I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen? "
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Happen
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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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Wife
One Word