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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Spring Training is a fun time for me.

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.

I have one goal with all my decision: to do whatever is needed to win today's game. I'm loyal to my players, and I stick with people because consistency builds confidence. But if I feel I have to make a change in order to win, I'll do it. I don't ask players to like my decisions, only to accept that I'm doing my job with one thing in mind - winning.

...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.

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.

We can learn from past failures and mistakes, but we shouldn't get stuck there. We can keep future goals in mind, but we shouldn't get stuck there, either. The only way to reach our potential is to focus on what we must do now - this moment, this day - to perform effectively and win.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

If all of us who love baseball and are doing our jobs, then those who get the game from us will be as proud to be a part of it as we were. And we are. This game is a gift, and I am humbled, very humbled, to accept its greatest honor.

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

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.

You know, Mike Milken, the money that he has raised for cancer research has been remarkable.

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.

Winning is a lot of fun. I remember having a meeting a couple years ago and telling the guys: 'You're not enjoying yourselves.' O'Neill said to me afterwards, 'Skip, it's not fun unless you win.'

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.'

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

People are proud of their players.

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

Kids are much more intuitive these days. Not that I'm crazy about what's on TV, but they know so much these days.

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.

In baseball, you're always moving people around.

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

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.

I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill.

It's my job that if somebody wants to have a discussion about something, I'm certainly sensitive to that, and I'm willing to do it.