Joe Torre Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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I knew what the Dodgers uniform represented as a kid growing up in Brooklyn.
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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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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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Getting fired is what happens to a manager sooner or later.
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If I intimidate people, that's not my intention.
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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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With negotiations, you never know what's going to happen.
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Home-plate collisions are something you cannot ignore.
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Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.
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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, 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.
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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 has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.
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Sometimes they say the world rotates a little different for lefthanders.
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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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To wind up in Cooperstown is surreal for me. To go into the Hall of Fame is one thing. When you think of all the other Yankees that are in here, it's pretty special. This is just a shrine. To visit it, much less be inducted, it's still sort of unbelievable to me.
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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.