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" My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it. "
Tommy Lasorda
Watch
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Just
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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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" 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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" Always give an autograph when somebody asks you. "
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" My goal is to live to be 100. "
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" People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not. "
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" Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts. "
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" I bleed Dodger blue! "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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 got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen? "
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Happen
Portrait
" You give loyalty, you'll get it back. You give love, you'll get it back. "
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Loyalty
Get
Back
" 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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Only
Field
Worry
" You get an opportunity to do something for your country, you better get out and do it. "
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Country
Better
Your
" 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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Team
Organization
Opportunity
" 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? "
Tommy Lasorda
Love
You
Tired
" Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win. "
Tommy Lasorda
Win
Everybody
Wants
" 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
" 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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Hard
Hand
Enough
" You can wake up every day and make today better than the last. "
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Today
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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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" Baseball is played by all countries now, and softball, too. "
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Now
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" Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers. "
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" I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters. "
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" I've had heroes in my life - Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth. "
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" The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination. "
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