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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
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Brooklyn
New York
Joseph Paul Torre
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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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He [Nomar Garciaparra] could go 0-for-10 in rehab and it wouldn't mean anything.
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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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It's not easy to just say you don't want to do something any more.
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I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell.
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Baseball is a game of life. It's not perfect, but it feels like it is.
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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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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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I have great confidence in Rick Caruso's unique qualifications and his ability to lead a successful bid for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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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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I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill.
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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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You're always in the storm's eye, so to speak, when you're with the Yankees.
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Boomer is ... Boomer. That pretty much tells you all you need to know
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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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Every time I pull somebody out of the bullpen, I believe he can do the job. I have to believe it. If he doesn't, hopefully he will do it the next time.
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I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.
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It's my job that if somebody wants to have a discussion about something, I'm certainly sensitive to that, and I'm willing to do it.
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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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Not that managing in the American League is easy, but this is certainly different. I'll have to have somebody poke me in the rear end when I have a pitcher that's going to hit.
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