Joe Torre Quotes
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I won't be managing the Mets. I am closing the door on managing the Mets and probably everybody else.
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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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Chicago is a pretty good town.
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Sometimes they say the world rotates a little different for lefthanders.
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Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.
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When you take a job, you don't just accept the pats on the back. You have to accept the kicks in the pants.
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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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Home-plate collisions are something you cannot ignore.
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My father wasn't the best role model to me.
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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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Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.
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I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.
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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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Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.
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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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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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Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.
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If I intimidate people, that's not my intention.
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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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With negotiations, you never know what's going to happen.
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There's nothing that can replace the feeling of winning.
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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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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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Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes.