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The game itself is an autonomous game, but everybody is a part of it. No contribution is too small.

Joe Torre

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Joe Torre
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: July 18
Baseball Manager
Baseball Player
Brooklyn
New York
Joseph Paul Torre
Baseball
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Small
Everybody
Games
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When I was 16 years old, my brother Frank said, 'You'd better become a catcher, because you're too big and fat to do anything else.' Well, I took his advice. It was a quick way to get to the big leagues, and I've never regretted it.
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I believe anybody who is not afraid to fail is a winner.
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There will be a time when everyone on the team is going to contribute to winning a pennant.
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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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Chicago is a pretty good town.
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There is no worse emotion than fear.
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I can understand the fact you don't want the ball slipping out of a pitcher's hand because someone can get hurt.
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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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My greatest talent is calmness and being positive. I concentrate on what you can do even in the worst of times. You don't judge by last week's errors or lost opportunity.
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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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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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Winning is a lot of fun. I remember having a meeting a couple years ago and telling the guys: 'You're not enjoying yourselves.' O'Neill said to me afterwards, 'Skip, it's not fun unless you win.'
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Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.
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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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It's not easy to just say you don't want to do something any more.
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He [Nomar Garciaparra] could go 0-for-10 in rehab and it wouldn't mean anything.
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Tommy (Lasorda) will eat anything, as long as you pay for it.
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My father wasn't the best role model to me.
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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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As a member of a competitive team, you want to make sure you have yourself ready to play. You don't control anything but what you do.
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