Joe Torre Quotes
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By rule, the decision to reverse a call by use of instant replay is at the sole discretion of the crew chief.
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Home-plate collisions are something you cannot ignore.
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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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My father wasn't the best role model to me.
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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.
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Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.
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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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I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.
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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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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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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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Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.
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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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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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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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If I intimidate people, that's not my intention.
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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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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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There's nothing that can replace the feeling of winning.
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Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes.
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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.