Joe Torre Quotes

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Joe Torre

Profession : Athlete

Birth : July 18, 1940

I've enjoyed my time in the American League, the fans of Southern California and other friendships.

Joe Torre

The fact that somebody is reducing your salary is just telling me they're not satisfied with what you're doing.

Joe Torre

My father wasn't the best role model to me.

Joe Torre

There's nothing that can replace the feeling of winning.

Joe Torre

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.

Joe Torre

When you're in a slump, you do something different, just to try it. I remember one time I was in a slump, and I borrowed one of Henry Aaron's bats and hit two homers. I used my own bats the next night. I just needed a change.

Joe Torre

I met Tiger Woods, and I looked in his eyes - and I saw Derek Jeter. They don't have to tell people they're good. They just prove it by the way they love the competition.

Joe Torre

Even though I was never a Yankee fan until I put on the uniform, when you think about the deep history of this organization, you always knew what the Yankees represented.

Joe Torre

You're always in the storm's eye, so to speak, when you're with the Yankees.

Joe Torre

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.

Joe Torre

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.

Joe Torre

There is no worse emotion than fear.

Joe Torre

As a supporter of the Prostate Cancer Foundation and their Home Run Challenge program, I am extremely grateful for the valuable partnerships and relationships built with Major League Baseball and our affiliates.

Joe Torre

Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.

Joe Torre

By rule, the decision to reverse a call by use of instant replay is at the sole discretion of the crew chief.

Joe Torre

Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes.

Joe Torre

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?

Joe Torre

In baseball, you're always moving people around.

Joe Torre

Sometimes they say the world rotates a little different for lefthanders.

Joe Torre

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.'

Joe Torre