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" My goal is to live to be 100. "
Tommy Lasorda
Live
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" 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. "
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" My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it. "
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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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" Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers. "
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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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" 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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" You can wake up every day and make today better than the last. "
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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 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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Never
Army
High
" No, we don't cheat. And even if we did, I'd never tell you. "
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" 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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Hand
Believe
I Believe
" 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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Three
Wonder
" You get an opportunity to do something for your country, you better get out and do it. "
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Better
Your
" 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
One Word
" 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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Diet
Happy
Lose
" Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path. "
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Kept
Sports
Path
" 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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Pitching
Years
Dream
" 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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Loved
Never
Winner
" Sometimes, you get too hopped up, too excited, and it works against you. "
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You
Against
Excited
" You give loyalty, you'll get it back. You give love, you'll get it back. "
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Loyalty
Get
Back
" 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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Boy
Army
School
" Grownups have to say 'please,' too. "
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Too
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" I bleed Dodger blue! "
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Blue
Dodger
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" Chan Ho had a great career and was the exemplification of class, dignity and character. "
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Great
Class
Character
" 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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" '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. "
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Thinking
Failure
Start
" People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not. "
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You
People Say
" Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts. "
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Baseball
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" We're all put here for a reason. And one little movement changes your way of life. "
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Changes
Life