Quotes by Joe Torre - Page 3

It's something you hope doesn't happen. When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.
Joe Torre / Baseball Manager
Sign
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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.
Joe Torre / Baseball Manager
New York
Fans
Retirement
Special
Years
Me Will New
Wherever
York
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When you've been in the game as long as I have, you know the managers you've played for, the good ones and the bad ones. Even the good ones get fired.
Joe Torre / Baseball Manager
Managers
Bad Ones
Good Long Game
Fired
Good Ones
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Every time I pull somebody out of the bullpen, I believe he can do the job. I have to believe it. If he doesn't, hopefully he will do it the next time.
Joe Torre / Baseball Manager
Jobs
Believe
Next
Next Time
Time Believe Will
Bullpen
Pull
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Scott Boras, I've known for a long time. We were both in the Cardinals organization. I'm a lot older than Scott. He's a very tough man, very tough agent.
Joe Torre / Baseball Manager
Cardinals
Agent
Time Man Long
Scott
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Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result.
Joe Torre / Baseball Manager
Courage
Competing
Heart
Highest
Nurturing
People
Preparation
Understanding
Winning
Highest Level
Level
Result
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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 / Baseball Manager
Car
Dad
Home
Being There
Coming Home
Connected
Driveway
House
School
Friend
Coming
Saw
Youngster
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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.'
Joe Torre / Baseball Manager
League
Stuff
Thinking
Big Leagues
Pitch
Leagues
Strike
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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.
Joe Torre / Baseball Manager
Intriguing
Way
Yeah
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One thing you have to realize is that cancer is not something you necessarily cure, but you want to just take care of yourself and extend your life as long as you can.
Joe Torre / Baseball Manager
Cancer
Care
One Thing
Take Care
Life Yourself Your
Cure
Extend
Life Long Yourself
Necessarily
Realize
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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.
Joe Torre / Baseball Manager
Calendars
Games
May
Replay
Calendar
Time Game Start
Ninth
Inning
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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.
Joe Torre / Baseball Manager
Opportunity
Attitude
Errors
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I met Tiger Woods, and I looked in his eyes - and I saw Derek Jeter. They don't have to tell people they're good. They just prove it by the way they love the competition.
Joe Torre / Baseball Manager
Competition
Eye
People
Prove
Woods
Love Good Eyes
Eyes
Saw
Looked
Met
Tell
Tiger
Tiger Woods
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Even though I was never a Yankee fan until I put on the uniform, when you think about the deep history of this organization, you always knew what the Yankees represented.
Joe Torre / Baseball Manager
Organization
Thinking
Yankees
Uniform
Yankee
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I don't think there's any player that's more talented than Alex Rodriguez. He cares very deeply about doing well. Baseball is his life. He puts a lot of pressure on himself.
Joe Torre / Baseball Manager
Baseball
Player
Pressure
Thinking
Cares
Deeply
Talented
Himself
Puts
Rodriguez
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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 / Baseball Manager
Different
Easy
League
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You could have the bases loaded, and you bring up the best pinch-hitter in the world to pinch hit, he hits into a double play, and then all of a sudden: 'How could you do that?'
Joe Torre / Baseball Manager
Bases
Loaded
Play
World
Hit
Best World Play
Double
Pinch
Sudden
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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 / Baseball Manager
Anxiety
Finish Line
Lines
Stress
Finish
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It's nice to have writers write nice things about you and guys on radio and TV say nice things about you, but the guy who's in the locker next to you is the one you play the game for.
Joe Torre / Baseball Manager
Nice Things
Locker
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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.
Joe Torre / Baseball Manager
Absurd
Attention
Guy
Losing
Pay Attention
Winning
Main
Main Reason
Sudden
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Winning is a lot of fun. I remember having a meeting a couple years ago and telling the guys: 'You're not enjoying yourselves.' O'Neill said to me afterwards, 'Skip, it's not fun unless you win.'
Joe Torre / Baseball Manager
Couple
Fun
Winning
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First of all, you want umpires to call what they see. In the case of fair or foul, the smartest thing is to call the ball fair. Because if it's called foul and ruled fair, where do we put the runners?
Joe Torre / Baseball Manager
Foul
Runners
Umpires
Ball
Call
Case
Fair
First Of All
Ruled
Smartest
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I was always a little hesitant to accuse people of loading a bat to hit a ball farther. I was always very hesitant to approach people because I never had any evidence that I had firsthand knowledge of.
Joe Torre / Baseball Manager
Approach
Balls
Evidence
Hesitant
Littles
People
Accuse
Bat
Farther
Firsthand
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As a supporter of the Prostate Cancer Foundation and their Home Run Challenge program, I am extremely grateful for the valuable partnerships and relationships built with Major League Baseball and our affiliates.
Joe Torre / Baseball Manager
Cancer
Foundation
Grateful
Home Run
League
Major League
Major League Baseball
Program
Prostate
Supporter
Valuable
Affiliates
Partnerships
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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.
Joe Torre / Baseball Manager
Brother
Father
Winning
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When you're in a slump, you do something different, just to try it. I remember one time I was in a slump, and I borrowed one of Henry Aaron's bats and hit two homers. I used my own bats the next night. I just needed a change.
Joe Torre / Baseball Manager
Bats
Borrowed
My Own
Needed
Next
Night
One Time
Remember
Aaron
Hit
Henry
Slump
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A lot of pitchers today are afraid of the ball. Warren Spahn pinch-hit for me when I was a rookie. He hit a sacrifice fly. I couldn't argue. I was 20 years old and just happy to be in the big leagues. And Spahnnie was a good hitter.
Joe Torre / Baseball Manager
Sacrifice
Yankees
Years
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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.
Joe Torre / Baseball Manager
Advice
Brother
Frank
League
Years
Fat
Anything Else
Big Leagues
Catcher
Leagues
Quick
Regretted
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If all of us who love baseball and are doing our jobs, then those who get the game from us will be as proud to be a part of it as we were. And we are. This game is a gift, and I am humbled, very humbled, to accept its greatest honor.
Joe Torre / Baseball Manager
Jobs
Baseball
Games
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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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Brother
Team
Teenager
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To wind up in Cooperstown is surreal for me. To go into the Hall of Fame is one thing. When you think of all the other Yankees that are in here, it's pretty special. This is just a shrine. To visit it, much less be inducted, it's still sort of unbelievable to me.
Joe Torre / Baseball Manager
Fame
Surreal
Unbelievable
Wind
Yankees
Hall
Visit
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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.
Joe Torre / Baseball Manager
Attention
Numbers
Years
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When I became the manager of the New York Yankees, it was an opportunity to realize my lifelong dream of winning the World Series. We were fortunate enough to succeed in our first season in 1996, and in the years that followed, we wrote some great new chapters in Yankee history.
Joe Torre / Baseball Manager
Chapters
Fortunate
Series
Succeed
Winning
World Series
Followed
Manager
Yankee
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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.
Joe Torre / Baseball Manager
Mistake
Past
Winning
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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.
Joe Torre / Baseball Manager
Feelings
Trying
Winning
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I have one goal with all my decision: to do whatever is needed to win today's game. I'm loyal to my players, and I stick with people because consistency builds confidence. But if I feel I have to make a change in order to win, I'll do it. I don't ask players to like my decisions, only to accept that I'm doing my job with one thing in mind - winning.
Joe Torre / Baseball Manager
Jobs
Player
Winning
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