658 Quotes by Joe Torre

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.

I think, ... I feel pretty good about where we are.

I've talked to him all year about thinking small, and big things will happen. When you're fighting for a pennant, everybody here will remember that at-bat (on Saturday) rather than a two-run home run when you're up by six runs. I don't think he would have done that last year because he would have been trying to do something bigger.

I don't like living in a negative society. It doesn't help my job with all the negative stuff going around.

It's not an easy decision, obviously. But Heredia shouldn't be on the mound for me if I don't have confidence to do something like that. It's not an easy decision to make, but it was one I felt I had to and then just live with the results.

I think I'm going to have to make more of an effort to make calls on a regular basis if something's going to get me upset or angry or whatever,

I've talked to Bernie and I think he's comfortable with it. Emotionally, he is fine with it. It is just that the last day of July was the day it had to be done. It was in his contract.

I don't like it. When you make the deals I guess between networks and baseball, it's all about revenue.

Everybody's scratching their heads as to why we're cutting it so close. But it's not our decision.