Joe Torre

“Spring Training is a fun time for me.”

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

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

“I felt there was a lot of love in my house. And my mom was, you know, the basis of all that.”

“Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.”

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

“I have great confidence in Rick Caruso's unique qualifications and his ability to lead a successful bid for the Los Angeles Dodgers.”

“It's something you hope doesn't happen. When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.”

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

“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.'”

“I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.”

“There is no worse emotion than fear.”

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

“You have to fix something when it first appears.”

“At 7-1, your pitching has obviously controlled that other team. At 16-10, I'm not sure when it's safe.”

“We've beat up our umpires. They're now allowed to be human.”

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

“Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me.”

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

“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.”