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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.
Joe Torre
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That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.
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There will be a time when everyone on the team is going to contribute to winning a pennant.
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Tommy (Lasorda) will eat anything, as long as you pay for it.
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Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.
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Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.
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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 no problem with cheating. Whatever you can get away with.
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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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I think that I have a sensitivity toward people, and that is a strength.
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Chicago is a pretty good town.
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You have to fix something when it first appears.
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He [Nomar Garciaparra] could go 0-for-10 in rehab and it wouldn't mean anything.
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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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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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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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I never concerned myself with other people's decisions.
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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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I don't have a great deal of stress job-wise in my life, and that feels good.
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My father wasn't the best role model to me.
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