Joe Torre Call Quotations

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.

We're doing this basically because we're trying to be as safe as possible.

He took part in more than I thought he would take part in. I wouldn't let him do the cutoffs and relays, and I was surprised he did the running. It was basically up to him and how good he felt -- so evidently, he felt fine.

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,

By rule, the decision to reverse a call by use of instant replay is at the sole discretion of the crew chief.

That's going to take a lot of thought, I guess is the best word, ... Only because you certainly don't want to do anything physically that's going to hurt him. I won't know if he's available. But if he is, as the game flows, if you're sitting down there with me, you're going to have the same thoughts I am. You're going to see where you are, see what's happening, and certain people just come into your mind as far as doing things.

I have a feeling I'm going to make all the phone calls. I'm not going to hesitate doing that, because I learned my lesson last year. I don't call him because I need to get support; I just think it's important to stay up to date.

The only thing I wanted him to do was have a plan, ... To me, being in between is worse than being wrong, because when you're in between, you're never right. So that was basically the conversation.

I just wanted to pretty much clear the air on everything that was part of my unhappiness or anger or whatever you want to call it, frustration. I guess you can put all those things under the same heading, ... I just wanted to pretty much, for my own satisfaction, to find out if he still trusts me with his team.

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?