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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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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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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.
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Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.
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I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell.
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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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Obviously generating revenue is what this is all about anymore, which is sad, but again, you have to find ways to make it work. But, yeah, that's certainly intriguing.
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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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My wife accuses me - and she's probably right - that I'm sometimes oversensitive.
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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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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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Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes.
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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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I've seen that picture before. It was a two-seamer that didn't sink until it hit the upper deck somewhere.
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I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.
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Tommy (Lasorda) will eat anything, as long as you pay for it.
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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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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.
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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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