Quote

It's nice to be in first place. But just because you're not on a winner doesn't mean you're a loser.

Joe Torre

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Joe Torre
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: July 18
Baseball Manager
Baseball Player
Brooklyn
New York
Joseph Paul Torre
Mean
Loser
Winner
Nice
Doesn
Place
Firsts
First

More quotes by Joe Torre

Image
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
Image
Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.
Joe Torre
Image
Baseball is a game of life. It's not perfect, but it feels like it is.
Joe Torre
Image
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.
Joe Torre
Image
My father wasn't the best role model to me.
Joe Torre
Image
If I intimidate people, that's not my intention.
Joe Torre
Image
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.'
Joe Torre
Image
There is no worse emotion than fear.
Joe Torre
Image
You know, Mike Milken, the money that he has raised for cancer research has been remarkable.
Joe Torre
Image
Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes.
Joe Torre
Image
If a club is winning, you never pay attention to a guy who's 0-for-10. If a club is losing, all of a sudden you'll find that he's the main reason why you're losing, which is absurd for me.
Joe Torre
Image
When we lost I couldn't sleep at night. When we win I can't sleep at night. But when you win, you wake up feeling better
Joe Torre
Image
My wife accuses me - and she's probably right - that I'm sometimes oversensitive.
Joe Torre
Image
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
Image
Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.
Joe Torre
Image
I don't have a great deal of stress job-wise in my life, and that feels good.
Joe Torre
Image
Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.
Joe Torre
Image
Respect is the word I want. You have to earn it. You give, and you get it in return, that's how I see it.
Joe Torre
Image
I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell.
Joe Torre
Image
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.
Joe Torre