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My wife accuses me - and she's probably right - that I'm sometimes oversensitive.

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Joe Torre
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: July 18
Baseball Manager
Baseball Player
Brooklyn
New York
Joseph Paul Torre
Oversensitive
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Wife
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I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.
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I do love the feeling of a big win. But you don't have to have a World Series ring to be a winner. A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished. Being able to get the most from their ability. That's what characterizes a winner.
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I have great confidence in Rick Caruso's unique qualifications and his ability to lead a successful bid for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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I'm a very private person, and I don't want to share stuff with anyone.
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The game itself is an autonomous game, but everybody is a part of it. No contribution is too small.
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Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.
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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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I know in the heat of battle, it's hard not to get angry, especially in the 19th inning.
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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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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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Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes.
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I believe anybody who is not afraid to fail is a winner.
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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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Baseball is a game of life. It's not perfect, but it feels like it is.
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He [Nomar Garciaparra] could go 0-for-10 in rehab and it wouldn't mean anything.
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It's nice to be in first place. But just because you're not on a winner doesn't mean you're a loser.
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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've got to decide, how much replay do we want? Because if you start doing it from the first inning to the ninth inning, you may have to time the game with a calendar.
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