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It's not easy to just say you don't want to do something any more.

Joe Torre

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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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I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.
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Golf is the only game I know where you call a foul on yourself.
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That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.
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I never concerned myself with other people's decisions.
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Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes.
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He [Nomar Garciaparra] could go 0-for-10 in rehab and it wouldn't mean anything.
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Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.
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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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Not that managing in the American League is easy, but this is certainly different. I'll have to have somebody poke me in the rear end when I have a pitcher that's going to hit.
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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 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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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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You're always in the storm's eye, so to speak, when you're with the Yankees.
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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 feel very fortunate to have broken in with the Milwaukee Braves organization.
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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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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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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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I believe anybody who is not afraid to fail is a winner.
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