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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
Golf
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You have to fix something when it first appears.
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You know, Mike Milken, the money that he has raised for cancer research has been remarkable.
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Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.
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Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.
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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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A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished.
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Baseball is a game of life. It's not perfect, but it feels like it is.
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I have no problem with cheating. Whatever you can get away with.
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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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My 12 years in New York were very, very special, the fans were very special, and it's something I will take with me wherever I go and into retirement.
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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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My wife accuses me - and she's probably right - that I'm sometimes oversensitive.
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I feel very fortunate to have broken in with the Milwaukee Braves organization.
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That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.
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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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Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.
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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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