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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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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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I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell.
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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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Boomer is ... Boomer. That pretty much tells you all you need to know
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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 can understand the fact you don't want the ball slipping out of a pitcher's hand because someone can get hurt.
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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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I'm a very private person, and I don't want to share stuff with anyone.
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My wife accuses me - and she's probably right - that I'm sometimes oversensitive.
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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 played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.
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