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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
Coleman
Jerry
Wear
Proud
Player
Made
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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.
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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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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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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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There is no worse emotion than fear.
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I never concerned myself with other people's decisions.
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Years ago, you never concerned yourself with pitch counts. Now, with statistics telling you that between this number and that number bad things happen to this particular pitcher, you have to pay attention to it. The bullpen has become a huge part of what happens now.
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I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.
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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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A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished.
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Winning is a lot of fun. I remember having a meeting a couple years ago and telling the guys: 'You're not enjoying yourselves.' O'Neill said to me afterwards, 'Skip, it's not fun unless you win.'
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My father wasn't the best role model to me.
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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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I feel emptiness, and he probably won't be able to close his eyes for two or three days.
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If I intimidate people, that's not my intention.
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My wife accuses me - and she's probably right - that I'm sometimes oversensitive.
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He [Nomar Garciaparra] could go 0-for-10 in rehab and it wouldn't mean anything.
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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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You can't win the Kentucky Derby unless you're on a thoroughbred.
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