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" Grownups have to say 'please,' too. "
Tommy Lasorda
Grownups
Too
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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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" About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure. "
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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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" Chan Ho had a great career and was the exemplification of class, dignity and character. "
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" There are three kinds of people in this world: people who make it happen, people who watch what happens, and people who wonder what happened. "
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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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" You give loyalty, you'll get it back. You give love, you'll get it back. "
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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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" You can wake up every day and make today better than the last. "
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" I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen? "
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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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" You get an opportunity to do something for your country, you better get out and do it. "
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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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You
Tired
" I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.' "
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Capital
World
" 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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" My goal is to live to be 100. "
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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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I Am
Happy
" If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven. "
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Chance
Dodgers
Good
" 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. "
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Believe
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" One time I was doing a speech to a group of kids, and just before I get there, I see this little kid crying. I found out they just lost a game, and he was the losing pitcher. I went over there, put my arm around him, and said, 'What are you crying for? When major league players lose, they don't cry.' "
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