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Chan Ho had a great career and was the exemplification of class, dignity and character.
Tommy Lasorda
Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
Tommy Lasorda
Everywhere I go, I feel strange.
Tommy Lasorda
Sometimes, you get too hopped up, too excited, and it works against you.
Tommy Lasorda
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.
Tommy Lasorda
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
If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
Tommy Lasorda
Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.
Tommy Lasorda
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.
Tommy Lasorda
I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.
Tommy Lasorda
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.'
Tommy Lasorda
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.
Tommy Lasorda
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.
Tommy Lasorda
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.
Tommy Lasorda
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.
Tommy Lasorda
I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
Tommy Lasorda
I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
Tommy Lasorda
I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter or anybody else's wife.
Tommy Lasorda
I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
Tommy Lasorda
No, we don't cheat. And even if we did, I'd never tell you.
Tommy Lasorda
People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
Tommy Lasorda
Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
Tommy Lasorda
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