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
You hear the word 'cancer,' it scares you. You think of death.
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 can understand the fact you don't want the ball slipping out of a pitcher's hand because someone can get hurt.
I don't have a great deal of stress job-wise in my life, and that feels good.
I just don't like to dwell on stuff.
I won't be managing the Mets. I am closing the door on managing the Mets and probably everybody else.
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.
Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.
Getting fired is what happens to a manager sooner or later.
Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me.
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.
It's not easy to just say you don't want to do something any more.
My father wasn't the best role model to me.