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You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid, or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid, he's stupid.

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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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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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Baseball is a game of life. It's not perfect, but it feels like it is.
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I'm a very private person, and I don't want to share stuff with anyone.
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We've got to decide, how much replay do we want? Because if you start doing it from the first inning to the ninth inning, you may have to time the game with a calendar.
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If a club is winning, you never pay attention to a guy who's 0-for-10. If a club is losing, all of a sudden you'll find that he's the main reason why you're losing, which is absurd for me.
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Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes.
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Obviously generating revenue is what this is all about anymore, which is sad, but again, you have to find ways to make it work. But, yeah, that's certainly intriguing.
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I never concerned myself with other people's decisions.
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I feel emptiness, and he probably won't be able to close his eyes for two or three days.
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It's not easy to just say you don't want to do something any more.
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I think that winning creates chemistry, as opposed to other way around. I've been on a lot of friendly teams that couldn't win, trust me.
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He [Nomar Garciaparra] could go 0-for-10 in rehab and it wouldn't mean anything.
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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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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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I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.
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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 father wasn't the best role model to me.
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Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an anxiety.
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When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad's car in the driveway, I would go to a friend's house. I connected my dad being there with fear.
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Chicago is a pretty good town.
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