Joe Torre Quotes

Million Dollar Arm touches on many of the Safe At Home Foundations core values, such as children, teamwork and family.

I feel emptiness, and he probably won't be able to close his eyes for two or three days.

In baseball, you're always moving people around.

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

The fact that somebody is reducing your salary is just telling me they're not satisfied with what you're doing.

It's all about makeup.

People are proud of their players.

Umpires sometimes have a quick trigger.

I know in the heat of battle, it's hard not to get angry, especially in the 19th inning.

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

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.

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

My wife accuses me - and she's probably right - that I'm sometimes oversensitive.

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.'

Not that managing in the American League is easy, but this is certainly different. I'll have to have somebody poke me in the rear end when I have a pitcher that's going to hit.

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.

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

It's not easy to just say you don't want to do something any more.

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.

It just feels good to beat the world champs to be the world champs.

You hear the word 'cancer,' it scares you. You think of death.

I'm a very private person, and I don't want to share stuff with anyone.

As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because you either loved them or you hated them.

Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.

St. Louis has always been special to me.

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

Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.

Even though I was never a Yankee fan until I put on the uniform, when you think about the deep history of this organization, you always knew what the Yankees represented.

Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.

You're always in the storm's eye, so to speak, when you're with the Yankees.

When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad's car in the driveway, I would go to a friend's house. I connected my dad being there with fear.

Chicago is a pretty good town.

I knew what the Dodgers uniform represented as a kid growing up in Brooklyn.

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

If I intimidate people, that's not my intention.

I think there's more of opportunity to win games in the National League than the American League because there are more decisions to make.

I won't be managing the Mets. I am closing the door on managing the Mets and probably everybody else.

I just don't like to dwell on stuff.

I don't have a great deal of stress job-wise in my life, and that feels good.

I can understand the fact you don't want the ball slipping out of a pitcher's hand because someone can get hurt.

He [Nomar Garciaparra] could go 0-for-10 in rehab and it wouldn't mean anything.

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.

Boomer is ... Boomer. That pretty much tells you all you need to know

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

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.'

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.

I've seen that picture before. It was a two-seamer that didn't sink until it hit the upper deck somewhere.

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

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