American - Coach | September 22, 1927 -
If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
Tommy Lasorda
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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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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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'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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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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You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you've got to shut the doors down.
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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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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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People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
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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 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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We're all put here for a reason. And one little movement changes your way of life.
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