Joe Torre famous quotes

04-08-2025

Baseball is a game of life. It's not perfect, but it feels like it is,
-- Joe Torre

#Baseball #Games #Perfect
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
-- Joe Torre

#Baseball #Sleep #Feel Better
Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.
-- Joe Torre

#Appreciate #Good Times #Bad Times
Don't be afraid to fail, encourage your talent, and use your heart. And never be unprepared
-- Joe Torre

#Heart #Use #Talent
You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid, or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid, he's stupid.
-- Joe Torre

#Stupid #Guy #Brave
...in my book success and winning are not always the same thing. To me, success is playing - or working - to the best of your ability.
-- Joe Torre

#Leadership #Sports #Book
Tommy (Lasorda) will eat anything, as long as you pay for it.
-- Joe Torre

#Long #Pay
A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished.
-- Joe Torre

#Basketball #Trying #Winner
Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.
-- Joe Torre

#Baseball #Games #League
I do love the feeling of a big win. But you don't have to have a World Series ring to be a winner. A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished. Being able to get the most from their ability. That's what characterizes a winner.
-- Joe Torre

#Winning #Feelings #Trying
I think that winning creates chemistry, as opposed to other way around. I've been on a lot of friendly teams that couldn't win, trust me.
-- Joe Torre

#Team #Winning #Thinking
I don't think there's any player that's more talented than Alex Rodriguez. He cares very deeply about doing well. Baseball is his life. He puts a lot of pressure on himself.
-- Joe Torre

#Baseball #Player #Thinking
You know, Mike Milken, the money that he has raised for cancer research has been remarkable.
-- Joe Torre

#Cancer #Research #Remarkable
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.
-- Joe Torre

#Winning #Guy #Attention
Every time I pull somebody out of the bullpen, I believe he can do the job. I have to believe it. If he doesn't, hopefully he will do it the next time.
-- Joe Torre

#Jobs #Believe #Next
It just feels good to beat the world champs to be the world champs.
-- Joe Torre

#Feel Good #World #Beats
There will be a time when everyone on the team is going to contribute to winning a pennant.
-- Joe Torre

#Team #Winning
Whatever sport you're looking at, it's usually the team that makes the least mistakes that has the most success.
-- Joe Torre

#Sports #Mistake #Team
I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.
-- Joe Torre

#Years #World
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?'
-- Joe Torre

#Play #World #Bases
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

#Thinking #League #Stuff
It's not easy to just say you don't want to do something any more.
-- Joe Torre

#Want #Easy
In baseball, you're always moving people around.
-- Joe Torre

#Baseball #Moving #People
St. Louis has always been special to me.
-- Joe Torre

#Special #Special To Me
People are proud of their players.
-- Joe Torre

#Player #People #Proud
Kids are much more intuitive these days. Not that I'm crazy about what's on TV, but they know so much these days.
-- Joe Torre

#Crazy #Kids #Tvs

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