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.
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If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.
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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.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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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.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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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.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.
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When I'm on Faro, I'm never lonely.
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I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.
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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.
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If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.
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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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This was tough. The Kerry people were determined not to have a leak.
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The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.
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My wife loves to get all dressed up and go out, and I'm this gloomy Virgo. It works because of the mutual recognition that we are two democratic narcissists. She does what she has to do, and I do what I have to do. We respect that.
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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.
