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When we lost I couldn't sleep at night. When we win I can't sleep at night. But when you win, you wake up feeling better

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Joe Torre
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: July 18
Baseball Manager
Baseball Player
Brooklyn
New York
Joseph Paul Torre
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I feel very fortunate to have broken in with the Milwaukee Braves organization.
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I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill.
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You get to the big leagues, and you think, 'Can I do this stuff?' Then you take the first pitch down the middle for Strike 1, and you think, 'I could have hit that.'
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We can learn from past failures and mistakes, but we shouldn't get stuck there. We can keep future goals in mind, but we shouldn't get stuck there, either. The only way to reach our potential is to focus on what we must do now - this moment, this day - to perform effectively and win.
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You're always in the storm's eye, so to speak, when you're with the Yankees.
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Tommy (Lasorda) will eat anything, as long as you pay for it.
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After you manage the Yankees for 12 years, it's really tough to envision going somewhere else. But then the Dodgers called.
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You know, Mike Milken, the money that he has raised for cancer research has been remarkable.
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My 12 years in New York were very, very special, the fans were very special, and it's something I will take with me wherever I go and into retirement.
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Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.
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Even though I was never a Yankee fan until I put on the uniform, when you think about the deep history of this organization, you always knew what the Yankees represented.
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