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Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes.

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Joe Torre
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: July 18
Baseball Manager
Baseball Player
Brooklyn
New York
Joseph Paul Torre
Proud
Player
Made
Kind
Coleman
Jerry
Wear

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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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Chicago is a pretty good town.
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In baseball, you're always moving people around.
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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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Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.
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I believe anybody who is not afraid to fail is a winner.
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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.'
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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.
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I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.
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I have no problem with cheating. Whatever you can get away with.
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I feel very fortunate to have broken in with the Milwaukee Braves organization.
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We've got to decide, how much replay do we want? Because if you start doing it from the first inning to the ninth inning, you may have to time the game with a calendar.
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My greatest talent is calmness and being positive. I concentrate on what you can do even in the worst of times. You don't judge by last week's errors or lost opportunity.
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He [Nomar Garciaparra] could go 0-for-10 in rehab and it wouldn't mean anything.
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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.
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It's not easy to just say you don't want to do something any more.
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If I intimidate people, that's not my intention.
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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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Tommy (Lasorda) will eat anything, as long as you pay for it.
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