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Boomer is ... Boomer. That pretty much tells you all you need to know

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Joe Torre
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: July 18
Baseball Manager
Baseball Player
Brooklyn
New York
Joseph Paul Torre
Boomers
Yankees
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Boomer

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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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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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I think that I have a sensitivity toward people, and that is a strength.
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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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Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.
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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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Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.
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If I intimidate people, that's not my intention.
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It's not easy to just say you don't want to do something any more.
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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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Years ago, you never concerned yourself with pitch counts. Now, with statistics telling you that between this number and that number bad things happen to this particular pitcher, you have to pay attention to it. The bullpen has become a huge part of what happens now.
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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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Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes.
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You know, Mike Milken, the money that he has raised for cancer research has been remarkable.
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Tommy (Lasorda) will eat anything, as long as you pay for it.
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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've seen that picture before. It was a two-seamer that didn't sink until it hit the upper deck somewhere.
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A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished.
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One win­ter, when I was 12, my older brother Frank (20) said to my father, 'We want you out of the house. We don't want any­thing other than the house we live in. We don't want any­thing from you. Just leave.' And he left.
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I'm a very private person, and I don't want to share stuff with anyone.
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