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Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.

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Joe Torre
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: July 18
Baseball Manager
Baseball Player
Brooklyn
New York
Joseph Paul Torre
Baseball
Changed
Since
Tenure
Dramatically
Yankees
Began

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I do love the feeling of a big win. But you don't have to have a World Series ring to be a winner. A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished. Being able to get the most from their ability. That's what characterizes 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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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 don't have a great deal of stress job-wise in my life, and that feels good.
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The game itself is an autonomous game, but everybody is a part of it. No contribution is too small.
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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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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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You can't win the Kentucky Derby unless you're on a thoroughbred.
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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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Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.
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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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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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Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.
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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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I feel very fortunate to have broken in with the Milwaukee Braves organization.
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You have to fix something when it first appears.
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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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