Joe Torre
Joe Torre
Joseph Paul "Joe" Torreis an American professional baseball executive, serving in the capacity of Major League Baseball'schief baseball officer since 2011. A former player, manager and television color commentator, Torre ranks fifth all-time in MLB history with 2,326 wins as a manager. With 2,342 hits during his playing career, Torre is the only major leaguer to achieve both 2,000 hits and 2,000 wins as a manager. From 1996 to 2007, he was the manager of the New York Yankees, whom...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth18 July 1940
CountryUnited States of America
He [Nomar Garciaparra] could go 0-for-10 in rehab and it wouldn't mean anything.
People are proud of their players.
St. Louis has always been special to me.
In baseball, you're always moving people around.
Sometimes they say the world rotates a little different for lefthanders.
My wife accuses me - and she's probably right - that I'm sometimes oversensitive.
You have to fix something when it first appears.
When you take a job, you don't just accept the pats on the back. You have to accept the kicks in the pants.
Umpires sometimes have a quick trigger.
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.
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.
Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.
In regards to steroids, I think we're all to blame, all of baseball. I never realized how far-reaching this problem has been.