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" Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away. "
Tommy Lasorda
Hard
Hand
Enough
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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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" Always give an autograph when somebody asks you. "
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" The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers. "
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" 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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" Chan Ho had a great career and was the exemplification of class, dignity and character. "
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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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" 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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" If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven. "
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" They could never beat me in Springfield. I loved that old ballpark. If I could have pitched there all my career, I'd be a 300-game winner. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path. "
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" Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win. "
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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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" When we win, I'm so happy I eat a lot. When we lose, I'm so depressed, I eat a lot. When we're rained out, I'm so disappointed I eat a lot. "
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" I bleed Dodger blue! "
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" 'Pressure' is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure. "
Tommy Lasorda
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Start
" 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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" I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.' "
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Capital
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" I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters. "
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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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" 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. "
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" You can wake up every day and make today better than the last. "
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" The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination. "
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" No, we don't cheat. And even if we did, I'd never tell you. "
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" Everywhere I go, I feel strange. "
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" Sometimes, you get too hopped up, too excited, and it works against you. "
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