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Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.

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Joe Torre
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: July 18
Baseball Manager
Baseball Player
Brooklyn
New York
Joseph Paul Torre
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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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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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Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.
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Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.
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I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell.
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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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In baseball, you're always moving people around.
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Boomer is ... Boomer. That pretty much tells you all you need to know
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Chicago is a pretty good town.
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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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I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.
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I have great confidence in Rick Caruso's unique qualifications and his ability to lead a successful bid for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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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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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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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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That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.
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My wife accuses me - and she's probably right - that I'm sometimes oversensitive.
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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 never concerned myself with other people's decisions.
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