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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
Began
Baseball
Changed
Since
Tenure
Dramatically
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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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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When I was 16 years old, my brother Frank said, 'You'd better become a catcher, because you're too big and fat to do anything else.' Well, I took his advice. It was a quick way to get to the big leagues, and I've never regretted 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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People are proud of their players.
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I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.
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I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.
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It's not easy to just say you don't want to do something any more.
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I can understand the fact you don't want the ball slipping out of a pitcher's hand because someone can get hurt.
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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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Baseball is a game of life. It's not perfect, but it feels like it is.
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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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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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In baseball, you're always moving people around.
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You have to fix something when it first appears.
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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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Tommy (Lasorda) will eat anything, as long as you pay for it.
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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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Chicago is a pretty good town.
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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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