Joe Torre Quotes

Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result.

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

The second you think you've arrived, someone passes you. You have to always be in pursuit.

Don't be afraid to fail, encourage your talent, and use your heart. And never be unprepared

A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished.

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

Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.

Watching other teams in the World Series is like watching somebody else eat a Hot Fudge Sundae.

I have no problem with cheating. Whatever you can get away with.

If you do the best you can, you never have to look back.

My greatest talent is calmness and being positive. I concentrate on what you can do even in the worst of times. You don't judge by last week's errors or lost opportunity.

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.

There will be a time when everyone on the team is going to contribute to winning a pennant.

I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell.

You can't win the Kentucky Derby unless you're on a thoroughbred.

Obviously generating revenue is what this is all about anymore, which is sad, but again, you have to find ways to make it work. But, yeah, that's certainly intriguing.

Spring Training is a fun time for me.

...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.

Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

Whatever sport you're looking at, it's usually the team that makes the least mistakes that has the most success.

Getting fired is what happens to a manager sooner or later.

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.

Tommy (Lasorda) will eat anything, as long as you pay for it.

Golf is the only game I know where you call a foul on yourself.

We all have different ways to do things.

When I was a player and hit into a double play, I felt as if I was letting everyone down.

I believe anybody who is not afraid to fail is a winner.

I feel very fortunate to have broken in with the Milwaukee Braves organization.

You don't catch the knuckleball, you defend against it.

When you take a job, you don't just accept the pats on the back. You have to accept the kicks in the pants.

After you manage the Yankees for 12 years, it's really tough to envision going somewhere else. But then the Dodgers called.

Respect is the word I want. You have to earn it. You give, and you get it in return, that's how I see it.

I think that I have a sensitivity toward people, and that is a strength.

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.

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

My relationship with George Steinbrenner was great. He was the boss, and I accepted that.

You have to fix something when it first appears.

There is no worse emotion than fear.

The game itself is an autonomous game, but everybody is a part of it. No contribution is too small.

It's nice to be in first place. But just because you're not on a winner doesn't mean you're a loser.

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?'

That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.

In regards to steroids, I think we're all to blame, all of baseball. I never realized how far-reaching this problem has been.

I never concerned myself with other people's decisions.

Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.

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.

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.

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.

I've been very, very fortunate. I never had to work for a living.

I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.