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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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Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an anxiety.
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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 greatest talent is calmness and being positive. I concentrate on what you can do even in the worst of times. You don't judge by last week's errors or lost opportunity.
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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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When I was a teenager and my brother Frank was in the World Series in '57 and '58 against the Yankees, Braves winning in '57 and the Yankees in '58, little did I know the next time these two teams would meet in the World Series, I would be managing 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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A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished.
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Tommy (Lasorda) will eat anything, as long as you pay for it.
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I've seen that picture before. It was a two-seamer that didn't sink until it hit the upper deck somewhere.
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When I was 16 years old, my brother Frank said, 'You'd better become a catcher, because you're too big and fat to do anything else.' Well, I took his advice. It was a quick way to get to the big leagues, and I've never regretted it.
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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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There is no worse emotion than fear.
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It's not easy to just say you don't want to do something any more.
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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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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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I'm a very private person, and I don't want to share stuff with anyone.
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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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In baseball, you're always moving people around.
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You know, Mike Milken, the money that he has raised for cancer research has been remarkable.
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