Top 100 Joe Torre Quotes
#1. Spring Training is a fun time for me.
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#2. Home-plate collisions are something you cannot ignore.
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#3. 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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#4. I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill.
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#5. 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.
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#6. I knew what the Dodgers uniform represented as a kid growing up in Brooklyn.
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#7. 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.
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#8. Tommy (Lasorda) will eat anything, as long as you pay for it.
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#9. By rule, the decision to reverse a call by use of instant replay is at the sole discretion of the crew chief.
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#10. I have great confidence in Rick Caruso's unique qualifications and his ability to lead a successful bid for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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#11. My father wasn't the best role model to me.
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#12. 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.
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#13. 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.
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#14. 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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#15. 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.
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#16. Umpires sometimes have a quick trigger.
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#17. I've been very, very fortunate. I never had to work for a living.
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#18. Boomer is ... Boomer. That pretty much tells you all you need to know
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#19. Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me.
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#20. 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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#22. 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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#23. The second you think you've arrived, someone passes you. You have to always be in pursuit.
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#25. Chicago is a pretty good town.
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#26. I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell.
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#27. 'Million Dollar Arm' touches on many of the Safe At Home Foundation's core values, such as children, teamwork and family.
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#28. I'm a very private person, and I don't want to share stuff with anyone.
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#29. I think that winning creates chemistry, as opposed to other way around. I've been on a lot of friendly teams that couldn't win, trust me.
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#30. 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.
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#31. I won't be managing the Mets. I am closing the door on managing the Mets and probably everybody else.
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#32. 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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#33. It just feels good to beat the world champs to be the world champs.
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#34. You have to fix something when it first appears.
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#35. Whatever sport you're looking at, it's usually the team that makes the least mistakes that has the most success.
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#36. 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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#37. 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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#38. The game itself is an autonomous game, but everybody is a part of it. No contribution is too small.
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#39. 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.
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#40. Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.
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#41. 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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#42. 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.
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#43. We all have different ways to do things.
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#44. At 7-1, your pitching has obviously controlled that other team. At 16-10, I'm not sure when it's safe.
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#45. 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?'
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#46. 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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#47. 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.
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#48. 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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#49. I don't have a great deal of stress job-wise in my life, and that feels good.
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#50. 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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#51. 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.
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#52. In baseball, you're always moving people around.
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#53. You're always in the storm's eye, so to speak, when you're with the Yankees.
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#54. I never concerned myself with other people's decisions.
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#55. My relationship with George Steinbrenner was great. He was the boss, and I accepted that.
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#56. 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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#58. 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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#59. In regards to steroids, I think we're all to blame, all of baseball. I never realized how far-reaching this problem has been.
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#60. He [Nomar Garciaparra] could go 0-for-10 in rehab and it wouldn't mean anything.
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#61. As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because ... you either loved them or you hated them.
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#62. My wife accuses me - and she's probably right - that I'm sometimes oversensitive.
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#63. Don't be afraid to fail, encourage your talent, and use your heart. And never be unprepared
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#64. The fact that somebody is reducing your salary is just telling me they're not satisfied with what you're doing.
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#65. Baseball is a game of life. It's not perfect, but it feels like it is,
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#66. I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.
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#67. 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.
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#68. 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.'
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#69. When I was a player and hit into a double play, I felt as if I was letting everyone down.
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#70. Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.
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#71. 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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#72. You hear the word 'cancer,' it scares you. You think of death.
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#73. I know in the heat of battle, it's hard not to get angry, especially in the 19th inning.
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#74. 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.
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#75. After you manage the Yankees for 12 years, it's really tough to envision going somewhere else. But then the Dodgers called.
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#76. The Dodgers to me are the Yankees of the National League.
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#77. I feel very fortunate to have broken in with the Milwaukee Braves organization.
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#78. We've beat up our umpires. They're now allowed to be human.
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#79. 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?
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#80. If I intimidate people, that's not my intention.
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#81. You know, Mike Milken, the money that he has raised for cancer research has been remarkable.
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#82. Watching other teams in the World Series is like watching somebody else eat a Hot Fudge Sundae.
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#83. In my book success and winning are not always the same thing. To me, success is playing - or working - to the best of your ability.
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#84. I think that I have a sensitivity toward people, and that is a strength.
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#85. Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.
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#86. A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished.
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#87. 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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#88. 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.
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#89. Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes.
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#90. Sometimes they say the world rotates a little different for lefthanders.
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#91. Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.
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#92. You can't win the Kentucky Derby unless you're on a thoroughbred.
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#93. 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.
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#94. I felt there was a lot of love in my house. And my mom was, you know, the basis of all that.
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#95. Kids are much more intuitive these days. Not that I'm crazy about what's on TV, but they know so much these days.
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#96. I believe anybody who is not afraid to fail is a winner.
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#97. I feel emptiness, and he probably won't be able to close his eyes for two or three days.
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#98. 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.
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#99. Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.
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#100. I think there's more of opportunity to win games in the National League than the American League because there are more decisions to make.
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