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Tommy Lasorda Quotes: Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away.
         

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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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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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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