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
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.
Every time the Yankees go to spring training, you have to be thinking World Series. I don't think that's a disrespect to any other team. It's just understanding the pressure that goes with playing here.
We're in a situation where we can't be thinking about holding our own. We have to make an impact. The only way we can do that is by winning the first game.
We're in a pennant race, but the mentality is more of a postseason situation where every game is important enough to win right now, ... We can't be thinking long term.
With the players we have there are always going to be high expectations. Maybe we can chalk up the slow start into them thinking everything would be OK.
We're not thinking of either one; we're just thinking about winning every game. We'll win as many games as we can and we'll see what that gets us. That's basically our mentality right now.
They stopped thinking and went out there and reacted.
They stopped thinking and just went out there and reacted. With the ability we have, it's just a matter of when it's going to happen. It's just been a strange road trip.
Having George meet with him -- he doesn't meet with people just for the sake of meeting them. He's certainly thinking in terms of helping our ball club.
You hear the word 'cancer,' it scares you. You think of death.
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.
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.
In regards to steroids, I think we're all to blame, all of baseball. I never realized how far-reaching this problem has been.