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Golf is the only game I know where you call a foul on yourself.

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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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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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My wife accuses me - and she's probably right - that I'm sometimes oversensitive.
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People are proud of their players.
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My father wasn't the best role model to me.
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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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That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.
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If I intimidate people, that's not my intention.
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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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I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill.
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You have to fix something when it first appears.
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Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.
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I feel very fortunate to have broken in with the Milwaukee Braves organization.
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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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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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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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Tommy (Lasorda) will eat anything, as long as you pay for it.
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I think that winning creates chemistry, as opposed to other way around. I've been on a lot of friendly teams that couldn't win, trust me.
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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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Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.
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Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes.
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