Joe Torre Quotes
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I never concerned myself with other people's decisions.
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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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The Dodgers to me are the Yankees of the National League.
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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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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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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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Getting fired is what happens to a manager sooner or later.
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With negotiations, you never know what's going to happen.
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If I intimidate people, that's not my intention.
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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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I knew what the Dodgers uniform represented as a kid growing up in Brooklyn.
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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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I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.
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Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.
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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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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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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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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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Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.
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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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Sometimes they say the world rotates a little different for lefthanders.