American - Athlete | July 18, 1940 -
First of all, you want umpires to call what they see. In the case of fair or foul, the smartest thing is to call the ball fair. Because if it's called foul and ruled fair, where do we put the runners?
Joe Torre
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We've got to decide, how much replay do we want? Because if you start doing it from the first inning to the ninth inning, you may have to time the game with a calendar.
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As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because... you either loved them or you hated them.
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It's not easy to just say you don't want to do something any more.
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Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.
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There's only one New York.
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In baseball, you're always moving people around.
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When you're in a slump, you do something different, just to try it. I remember one time I was in a slump, and I borrowed one of Henry Aaron's bats and hit two homers. I used my own bats the next night. I just needed a change.
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I met Tiger Woods, and I looked in his eyes - and I saw Derek Jeter. They don't have to tell people they're good. They just prove it by the way they love the competition.
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Sometimes they say the world rotates a little different for lefthanders.
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Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.
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You get to the big leagues, and you think, 'Can I do this stuff?' Then you take the first pitch down the middle for Strike 1, and you think, 'I could have hit that.'
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