Joe Torre Quotes
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Getting fired is what happens to a manager sooner or later.
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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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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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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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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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With negotiations, you never know what's going to happen.
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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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I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.
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Chicago is a pretty good town.
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That's the sign of a good relationship, when you can pick up a phone and it doesn't matter when the last time you spoke was.
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If I intimidate people, that's not my intention.
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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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Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.
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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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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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Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.
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Home-plate collisions are something you cannot ignore.
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Sometimes they say the world rotates a little different for lefthanders.
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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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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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Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.
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Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.
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Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.
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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.