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In baseball, you're always moving people around.

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
Baseball
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My father wasn't the best role model to me.
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Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.
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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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I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell.
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My wife accuses me - and she's probably right - that I'm sometimes oversensitive.
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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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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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Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.
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Golf is the only game I know where you call a foul on yourself.
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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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