Joe Torre Quotes
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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.
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I felt there was a lot of love in my house. And my mom was, you know, the basis of all 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.
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If I intimidate people, that's not my intention.
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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 knew what the Dodgers uniform represented as a kid growing up in Brooklyn.
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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.
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Getting fired is what happens to a manager sooner or later.
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It's nice to have writers write nice things about you and guys on radio and TV say nice things about you, but the guy who's in the locker next to you is the one you play the game for.
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With negotiations, you never know what's going to happen.
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I never concerned myself with other people's decisions.
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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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I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.
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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.
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Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.
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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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Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.
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Chicago is a pretty good town.
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Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes.
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Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.
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Home-plate collisions are something you cannot ignore.
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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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One thing you have to realize is that cancer is not something you necessarily cure, but you want to just take care of yourself and extend your life as long as you can.
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There's nothing that can replace the feeling of winning.