Joe Torre Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.
-
I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.
-
I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
-
Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
-
A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
-
Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
-
There was a time for German stars in the 1950s with Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, O. W. Fischer, and Maria Schell. That was a totally different generation. It all ended in 1968 during the big students' movement in my country. It was an anti-authority movement that changed everything. All my country's hierarchies, morals and values were questioned.
-
I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
-
I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.
-
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
-
I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.
-
When I'm on Faro, I'm never lonely.
-
I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.
-
My life is so full of sacrifices.
-
The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.
-
A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am,' because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.
Gail Devers -
I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
-
If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.
-
A Creator is vision-focused and passion-motivated. To really live into your Creator self, you are called to do the inner work necessary to find your own sense of purpose-whatever touches your heart and holds meaning for you.
-
I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.
-
The things I have sold to film, I've sold because I was happy to rent out the right to adapt those works. Some things, I haven't sold to film, because I was less interested in having no control over the adaptation.
-
If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team.
-
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
-
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.
