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Tommy Lasorda

"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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"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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"After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'"

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"Communication is the lifeblood of an organization."

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"The best leaders don't give a damn about the definition of leadership, they are thinking about more important things."

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"The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission."

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"It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day."

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"She put her hands around the neck of our production manager, and you know, started to choke him."

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"Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off."

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"Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers."

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"Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers."

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"Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!"

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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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"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination."
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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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"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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"I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer."
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"I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky."
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"About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure."
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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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"My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it."
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"People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not."
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