Joe Torre Team Quotations

As a member of a competitive team, you want to make sure you have yourself ready to play. You don't control anything but what you do.

Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.

That was ugly. We just gave too much away. It's one thing to have a team beat you, but it's another to help them.

We did a lot of good things tonight. It was just a complete, clean ballgame for us, ... You're curious when you haven't faced a team that has a record like they do, to see how you match up to them. It makes you feel a little better about yourself.

They've gone into a little downturn. But they're too good a team to stay down.

You're getting a chance to look at these kids with the number of at-bats they're getting early in the game compared to what they would be getting if you had your whole team healthy and here. It's a little bit different, but you're getting to find out a little bit more than normal.

If you're a successful team you don't let things that are going on away from the field affect you. You do what you have to do, when you have to do it. At this point in the season, we're going start to start.

It's surprising. If his team was in the playoffs, I could understand it a little bit more. It's just surprising he pulled them so soon.

This team has been pretty good about not carrying any baggage with it.

Watching other teams in the World Series is like watching somebody else eat a Hot Fudge Sundae.

There will be a time when everyone on the team is going to contribute to winning a pennant.

Whatever sport you're looking at, it's usually the team that makes the least mistakes that has the most success.

I think that winning creates chemistry, as opposed to other way around. I've been on a lot of friendly teams that couldn't win, trust me.

When I was a teenager and my brother Frank was in the World Series in '57 and '58 against the Yankees, Braves winning in '57 and the Yankees in '58, little did I know the next time these two teams would meet in the World Series, I would be managing the Yankees.