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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.
Joe Torre
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Joe Torre
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: July 18
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Joseph Paul Torre
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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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You're always in the storm's eye, so to speak, when you're with the Yankees.
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I have no problem with cheating. Whatever you can get away with.
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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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It's not easy to just say you don't want to do something any more.
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My wife accuses me - and she's probably right - that I'm sometimes oversensitive.
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When we lost I couldn't sleep at night. When we win I can't sleep at night. But when you win, you wake up feeling better
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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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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 don't have a great deal of stress job-wise in my life, and that feels good.
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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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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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Golf is the only game I know where you call a foul on yourself.
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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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I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill.
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I believe anybody who is not afraid to fail is a winner.
Joe Torre
That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.
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You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid, or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid, he's stupid.
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When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad's car in the driveway, I would go to a friend's house. I connected my dad being there with fear.
Joe Torre
I'm a very private person, and I don't want to share stuff with anyone.
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