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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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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
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I've enjoyed my time in the American League, the fans of Southern California and other friendships.
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There's only one New York.
Joe Torre -
Kids are much more intuitive these days. Not that I'm crazy about what's on TV, but they know so much these days.
Joe Torre -
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 -
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 -
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
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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.
Joe Torre -
Golf is the only game I know where you call a foul on yourself.
Joe Torre -
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.
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I don't have a great deal of stress job-wise in my life, and that feels good.
Joe Torre -
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 -
My father wasn't the best role model to me.
Joe Torre
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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 -
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 is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.
Joe Torre -
Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.
Joe Torre -
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 -
Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.
Joe Torre
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Sometimes they say the world rotates a little different for lefthanders.
Joe Torre -
When we lost, I couldn't sleep at night. When we win, I can't sleep at night. But, when you win, you wake up feeling better.
Joe Torre -
Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.
Joe Torre -
Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me.
Joe Torre