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Joe Torre
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: July 18
Baseball Manager
Baseball Player
Brooklyn
New York
Joseph Paul Torre
Tommy
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Anything
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Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.
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That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.
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When I was a teenager and my brother Frank was in the World Series in '57 and '58 against the Yankees, Braves winning in '57 and the Yankees in '58, little did I know the next time these two teams would meet in the World Series, I would be managing the Yankees.
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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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I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell.
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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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Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.
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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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Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes.
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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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I believe anybody who is not afraid to fail is a winner.
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It's not easy to just say you don't want to do something any more.
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It's nice to be in first place. But just because you're not on a winner doesn't mean you're a loser.
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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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There is no worse emotion than fear.
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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 hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.
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