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Tommy Lasorda

"When you're not playing up to your capability, you gotta try everything, to motivate, to get them going. All of them have to be on the same end of the rope to pull together. It's playing for the name on the front of the shirt, not the back. Individualism gets you trophies and plaques. Play for the front, that wins championships. I try to remind them of that."

Source : "Q&A: Tommy Lasorda talks food, baseball and motivation, as only Mr. Dodger can". Interview with Tom Hoffarth, www.dailynews.com. July 15, 2013.

Tommy Lasorda

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“There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That's a personal point of view but that's the way I see it. I think that's what it's all about. The drive, the fire, the passion - it all comes out on the guitar.”
“To make us a terrorist target in a region that is full of terrorism is dumb and unforgiveable.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You're writing for some version of yourself. You're writing the kinds of things that you like to read or wanted to read at a certain point. So, primarily for most of my career, I've written the kind of criticism that fascinates me. The things I discovered the things that get me going, that I'm excited about.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“A song has to be hummable and memorable at it simplest form, and that's what bass does for me. I feel like the glue to everything.”
“We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry. A generous orthodoxy, in contrast to the tense, narrow, or controlling orthodoxies of so much of Christian history, doesn't take itself too seriously. It is humble. It doesn't claim too much. It admits it walks with a limp.”

Source : Tommy Douglas' address at the Provincial Convention, July 16, 1952.
“What argufies pride and ambition? Soon or late death will take us in tow: Each bullet has got its commission, And when our time's come we must go.”
“Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when youâ€™re maybe under seven or something, the sky is just a blue stripe across the top of the paper? And then thereâ€™s that somewhat disappointing moment when the teacher tells you that the sky actually comes down in amongst all the branches. And itâ€™s like life changes at that moment and becomes much more complicated and a little bit more boring, as itâ€™s rather tedious to fill in the branchesâ€¦”
“I try to avoid political ties.”

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