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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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My 12 years in New York were very, very special, the fans were very special, and it's something I will take with me wherever I go and into retirement.
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Tommy (Lasorda) will eat anything, as long as you pay for it.
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Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.
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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'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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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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I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.
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Golf is the only game I know where you call a foul on yourself.
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I know in the heat of battle, it's hard not to get angry, especially in the 19th inning.
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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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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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Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.
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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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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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I feel emptiness, and he probably won't be able to close his eyes for two or three days.
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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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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 am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell.
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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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I feel very fortunate to have broken in with the Milwaukee Braves organization.
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