Joe Torre's ground rules for winners: 1...
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“The second you think you've arrived, someone passes you. You have to always be in pursuit.”
“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.”
“I feel emptiness, and he probably won't be able to close his eyes for two or three days.”
“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.”
“I have no problem with cheating. Whatever you can get away with.”
“My relationship with George Steinbrenner was great. He was the boss, and I accepted that.”
“You're always in the storm's eye, so to speak, when you're with the Yankees.”
“I think that I have a sensitivity toward people, and that is a strength.”
“Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.”
“That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.”
“Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.”
“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.”
“Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.”
“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.”
“I don't have a great deal of stress job-wise in my life, and that feels good.”
“Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.”
“I knew what the Dodgers uniform represented as a kid growing up in Brooklyn.”