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Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.
Joe Torre
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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
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Yankees
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More quotes by Joe Torre
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.
Joe Torre
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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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 am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell.
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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.
Joe Torre
My wife accuses me - and she's probably right - that I'm sometimes oversensitive.
Joe Torre
I believe anybody who is not afraid to fail is a winner.
Joe Torre
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.
Joe Torre
You can't win the Kentucky Derby unless you're on a thoroughbred.
Joe Torre
I'm a very private person, and I don't want to share stuff with anyone.
Joe Torre
Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.
Joe Torre
Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes.
Joe Torre
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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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.
Joe Torre
I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.
Joe Torre
After you manage the Yankees for 12 years, it's really tough to envision going somewhere else. But then the Dodgers called.
Joe Torre
Tommy (Lasorda) will eat anything, as long as you pay for it.
Joe Torre
I can understand the fact you don't want the ball slipping out of a pitcher's hand because someone can get hurt.
Joe Torre
I don't have a great deal of stress job-wise in my life, and that feels good.
Joe Torre
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.
Joe Torre