Joe Torre Quotes

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• 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.

  Joe Torre

  Heart, Winning, People

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

  Joe Torre

  Motivational, Success, Thinking

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

  Joe Torre

  Basketball, Trying, Winner

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

  Joe Torre

  Heart, Use, Talent

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

  Joe Torre

  Baseball, Games, Perfect

  "Emotional Frank Thomas speech a Hall of Fame highlight" by Daniel Brown, www.mercurynews.com. July 27, 2014.

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• 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

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• 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.

  Joe Torre

  Mistake, Winning, Past

  Joe Torre, Henry Dreher (1999). “Joe Torre's ground rules for winners: 12 keys to managing team players, tough bosses, setbacks, and success”, Hyperion Books

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

  Joe Torre

  Appreciate, Good Times, Bad Times

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• 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

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

  Joe Torre

  Looks, Do The Best, Ifs

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• 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.

  Joe Torre

  Attitude, Opportunity, Errors

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

  Joe Torre

  Team, Ice Cream, Hot

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

  Joe Torre

  Jobs, Pants, Accepting

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• 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.

  Joe Torre

  Jobs, Winning, Player

  Joe Torre, Henry Dreher (1999). “Joe Torre's ground rules for winners: 12 keys to managing team players, tough bosses, setbacks, and success”, Hyperion Books

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

  Joe Torre

  Team, Winning

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• 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

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

  Joe Torre

  Cheating, Problem, Get Away

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• 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.

  Joe Torre

  Team, Play, Want

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

  Joe Torre

  Loss, Umpires, Bells

  "Wally Bell Dead: Major League Baseball Umpire Dies At 48". hollywoodlife.com. October 15, 2013.

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• 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

  "Column: Is it really the 'World Baseball Classic' if US fans don't pay attention?" by Jim Litke, www.foxnews.com. February 21, 2013.

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• You have to fix something when it first appears.

  Joe Torre

  Firsts

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• 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

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• ...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

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• 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.

  Joe Torre

  Way, Intriguing, Yeah

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

  Joe Torre

  Getting Fired, Sooner Or Later, Happens

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