Top 100 Torre Quotes
#1. Actually, when they have celebrity look-alikes, Im always put up there with Joe Torre.
Dan Lauria
#2. Joe Torre, who switched to first base because he didn't want to go through life as Chicken Catcher Torre. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#3. Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
Dale Murphy
#4. Either this guy's one in a million or you're a psychotic bitch.
Torre, Alessandra (2014-08-24). Black Lies (Kindle Locations 1787-1788). Alessandra Torre. Kindle Edition.
Alessandra Torre
#5. If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it.
Dino De Laurentiis
#6. There are things about Joe Torre, if I wanted to come out and say, would show how cold and calculated he really is ... Joe Torre is for Joe Torre ... The graveyard of Yankees coaches is loaded with bones of coaches Joe Torre did nothing about.
Michael Kay
#7. Black players had an issue with Joe Torre. They weren't treated like everybody else. Even I got called out in a couple of meetings that I thought was unfair.
Gary Sheffield
#8. I feel like not knowing Joe Torre is a hole in my New York experience.
Danny Meyer
#9. Derek Jeter used to come to me and try to tell you what Joe Torre is all about, he's a good man, he's this, he's that, but like I tell Derek Jeter, that's you. It's one thing that they treat you a certain way; you don't feel what other people feel.
Gary Sheffield
#10. Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla
Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti.
Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock.
Dante Alighieri
#11. But in the South, our smiles are our weapons and only a native knows a snarl from sincerity.
Alessandra Torre
#12. 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
#13. I need to know how many men ... " I glanced at the door. "How many men Brant has ... " I tried to find the right word to use in this public setting. " ... been in contact with. If Lee is the only one. What the possibilities are for more.
Alessandra Torre
#14. It's huge. You win the first game of the series, you want to win the series.
Joe Torre
#15. Spring Training is a fun time for me.
Joe Torre
#16. Did I at least look kick ass?" "In your baggy tee, grandma bathing suit and ripped shorts?" he grimaced. "Oh yeah. Totally kick ass.
Alessandra Torre
#18. A child is the quickest to trust because they have no concept of the depravity of our species.
Alessandra Torre
#19. She tried discreetly to squint and instead came off looking as if she had discreetly farted.
Alessandra Torre
#21. Stewart loves me with a tiger's intensity, his need taking my breath away, his confidence in our relationship strong enough to not be bothered by the presence of another man. He stares into my soul as if he owns it, and shows his love with money, sex, and rare moments of time.
Alessandra Torre
#22. So Aunt Jillian quit her job and hitched her wagon to Brant. Lived off food stamps and her savings account in a spare bedroom at Brant's house for two years. Then she brokered their first deal and all of the Sharps moved their bank account decimals seven places to the right.
Alessandra Torre
#23. She finished just after him, scooping out fried corn and an okra-tomato-corn medley on his plate.
Alessandra Torre
#24. Some people think of glasses as sexy. Those people haven't seen my glasses. Coke bottles would be a more apt description.
Alessandra Torre
#26. The most reliable thing on earth is a druggie's cravings. I think they are worse than mine.
Alessandra Torre
#27. God, you put up a lot of layers of asshole to keep people out.
Alessandra Torre
#28. He emitted, even across the large office, a wave of power, intelligence ... and sexuality.
Alessandra Torre
#29. How does someone keep a chicken inside a fence? I had closed my eyes at that one, picturing Cocky running off into the cotton fields, and me, standing at the edge of the fence, hollering the rooster's name like a crazy woman.
Alessandra Torre
#30. Cole stood in a living room of chicken hell. Wallpaper with chickens on it. Chicken clock. Chicken pillows. Framed plates with chickens on it.
Alessandra Torre
#31. For us, silence is all we have ever known. I do not speak because I do not know what to say. He does not speak because he has no interest in talking.
Alessandra Torre
#32. Disappointment in others is tough. But disappointment in yourself is far worse.
Alessandra Torre
#33. I am grateful that I got kicked in the ass. That I had a taste of reality before I traveled too far and that persona became permanent.
Alessandra Torre
#34. Begging for More Kim Karr It was an instant attraction ... never intended to be more than a quick lay.
Alessandra Torre
#35. Love is only made more valuable by the risk of heartbreak.
Alessandra Torre
#36. I've enjoyed my time in the American League, the fans of Southern California and other friendships.
Joe Torre
#37. With me it started as a child, going to the theater and being totally transported but also walking out of the theater thinking I was the protagonist in the film and reenacting the scenes.
Oscar Torre
#38. I am not married to any particular genre. I am more interested in projects that capture my imagination and move me in a way that I can spend a year of my life working on it.
Oscar Torre
#39. She fucks because she loves it and loves through it. It is her gift to the world, and I am lucky enough to be a part of that world.
Alessandra Torre
#40. Home-plate collisions are something you cannot ignore.
Joe Torre
#41. I can understand the fact you don't want the ball slipping out of a pitcher's hand because someone can get hurt.
Joe Torre
#42. And even if it is fake, even if it is for another woman, I want it. Badly.
Alessandra Torre
#43. She smiled brightly, and the sum of their entire relationship could be condensed into that exchange: two actors playing their parts to perfection. Sad that it took so long for him to finally see that.
Alessandra Torre
#44. 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.
Joe Torre
#45. I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill.
Joe Torre
#47. Hard, fast. He fucked me as if he hated me, but the words spilling out were nothing but love.
Alessandra Torre
#48. 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
#49. I knew what the Dodgers uniform represented as a kid growing up in Brooklyn.
Joe Torre
#50. 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
#51. I'll do anything you want. Anything. It is true. The last two years have taught me that. Anything. It is a heavy word when used correctly. It is a word that can hold unknown possibilities
Alessandra Torre
#52. Tommy (Lasorda) will eat anything, as long as you pay for it.
Joe Torre
#53. By rule, the decision to reverse a call by use of instant replay is at the sole discretion of the crew chief.
Joe Torre
#54. Others letting you down is ice cream and cookies compared with the rejection of your own soul. I don't know what is sadder, expecting myself to fail or being too scared to dream of success.
Alessandra Torre
#55. I understood cheating, understood the betrayal that you went through when you found out. Understood the lows that your self-esteem struggled with, the validation that you tried to find, the loneliness that haunted your nights as you mourned a future that, in an instant, disappeared.
Alessandra Torre
#56. I have great confidence in Rick Caruso's unique qualifications and his ability to lead a successful bid for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Joe Torre
#57. Fate was funny that way; it had its own way of changing our lives.
Alessandra Torre
#58. They think their Mercedes makes them a better person, when - to us - it's just an indication of low self-esteem.
Alessandra Torre
#59. It was a shame, really, to have that much beauty. God could have divided up his thick eyelashes, strong features, hazel eyes, and delicious mouth among three men, therefore giving more women a chance at happiness.
Alessandra Torre
#60. True love makes a person reckless, makes them take risks and make sacrifices. True love tests the boundaries of our person, makes us yearn to be better and fight for the ground we stand on. I will fight for this love. Lie for it. Steal for it. It's worthy of that.
Alessandra Torre
#62. 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
#63. I have been alone so long, scared of myself and for myself, deprived of so many freedoms.
Alessandra Torre
#64. 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
#65. My father wasn't the best role model to me.
Joe Torre
#66. New York. Tomorrow. He needed more time to prepare. But a lifetime wouldn't be enough. He'd never be ready to face her again. Not without pulling her into his arms. Not without refusing to ever let her go.
Alessandra Torre
#67. Kinsey was the kind of pretty that got under her skin. It was as if someone had put the girl next door and a vintage pin-up in a box, shook it, and Kinsey was what had tumbled out, blushing and mussed. Plus,
Alessandra Torre
#68. During these minutes, he owns me, regardless of the money or the orders. I am fully and completely his.
Alessandra Torre
#69. 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
#70. Death. It is a strange stalker, one that we spend our whole lives running from, some more successful than others.
Alessandra Torre
#71. There will be a time when everyone on the team is going to contribute to winning a pennant.
Joe Torre
#72. I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.
Joe Torre
#73. Its. A. Chicken. There ain't no Chef Boyardee prepackaged meals in nine different flavors.
Alessandra Torre
#75. I kept my plan simple: leave my comfort zone, work in a foreign city, enjoy some uninhibited fun, and return home in one year.
Torre DeRoche
#76. I was a child of wealth, expected to do nothing but everything.
Alessandra Torre
#77. Kissed. Worshipped. Seduced. Fucked within an inch of her life.
Alessandra Torre
#78. 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
#79. You bagged a movie star. You should be throwing a fucking party and bragging on Twitter. What you shouldn't be doing is moping, not when you threw him out of your house like a baller.
Alessandra Torre
#80. It's nice to be in first place. But just because you're not on a winner doesn't mean you're a loser.
Joe Torre
#81. A matriarch who considers powerful sneezes as noise disruptions worthy of eviction.
Alessandra Torre
#82. 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
#83. God's dreams for us is far better than our own. He desires that we be able to maximize every potential and every gift that He has given us.
Ru Dela Torre
#84. Yes, sweet tea. I had actually converted him into a human being.
Alessandra Torre
#85. The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else - grants you access to their head, their thoughts, their secrets.
Alessandra Torre
#86. St. Louis has always been special to me.
Joe Torre
#87. Umpires sometimes have a quick trigger.
Joe Torre
#88. I've been very, very fortunate. I never had to work for a living.
Joe Torre
#89. Boomer is ... Boomer. That pretty much tells you all you need to know
Joe Torre
#90. I broke open a boiled peanut and popped the nut in my mouth.
Alessandra Torre
#91. Yes." Brett smiled and I cringed at his omission of 'ma'am.' The word was a Southern requirement, a verbal side dish that must accompany every course. It didn't matter if the person addressed was six years old. Or twenty. Or ninety. In the South, we said 'please' and 'thank you,' 'sir,' and 'ma'am.
Alessandra Torre
#92. Gentlemen are a dying breed.
Do your part to help out by supporting them sexually.
Alessandra Torre
#93. That's the problem with beautiful men. They don't know their impact; they don't realize how a casually tossed out thought can be devoured, obsessed over, life-changing.
Alessandra Torre
#94. And his stomach growled in response. He felt a pang of something, deep inside, a hole he hadn't known existed, and he dropped the cloth, stepping away, turning back to the small living space. A home, that was what this was. Had he ever had one?
Alessandra Torre
#95. God, do I love this man. The way he touches me, the way he kisses me. The cuts of his body and the intensity of his eyes. He is a drug that I have no way of resisting, bad for my soul, but so heartbreakingly perfect in its deliverance.
Alessandra Torre
#96. She stares in my eyes and loves me with a vehemence all her own. A scary, passionate type of love. One that rips away all pretenses and allows us to love each other bare and without consequence.
Alessandra Torre
#97. I didn't know what I hated more, when his eyes were unreadable or when I didn't like what I read in them.
Alessandra Torre
#98. I loved you. I still love you. Even when I hate you, I love you. I always will. I'm not a smart man, but I know that." ... "Tell me what you want. If you want it, I'll leave. Not for him. I'll never do anything for him. But for you, I'll do it. I'll fucking kill myself inside of him.
Alessandra Torre
#99. Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.
Joe Torre
#100. I will fight for this love. Lie for it. Steal for it. It is worthy of that.
Alessandra Torre
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