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Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.

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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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If I intimidate people, that's not my intention.
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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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That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.
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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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People are proud of their players.
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There is no worse emotion than fear.
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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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It's not easy to just say you don't want to do something any more.
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I have no problem with cheating. Whatever you can get away with.
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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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Tommy (Lasorda) will eat anything, as long as you pay for it.
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In baseball, you're always moving people around.
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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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Boomer is ... Boomer. That pretty much tells you all you need to know
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Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.
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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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My wife accuses me - and she's probably right - that I'm sometimes oversensitive.
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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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I do love the feeling of a big win. But you don't have to have a World Series ring to be a winner. A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished. Being able to get the most from their ability. That's what characterizes a winner.
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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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