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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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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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Baseball is a game of life. It's not perfect, but it feels like it is.
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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
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I know in the heat of battle, it's hard not to get angry, especially in the 19th inning.
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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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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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I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.
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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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You're always in the storm's eye, so to speak, when you're with the Yankees.
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If I intimidate people, that's not my intention.
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You have to fix something when it first appears.
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Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes.
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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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In baseball, you're always moving people around.
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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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It's not easy to just say you don't want to do something any more.
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After you manage the Yankees for 12 years, it's really tough to envision going somewhere else. But then the Dodgers called.
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When I was 16 years old, my brother Frank said, 'You'd better become a catcher, because you're too big and fat to do anything else.' Well, I took his advice. It was a quick way to get to the big leagues, and I've never regretted it.
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My father wasn't the best role model to me.
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