Joe Torre Quotes

I remember when replay first came to TV. I can't remember who it was now, but a manager came out to beef about a call, and I ran him. He said he was going back into the clubhouse and watch replay. I told him, 'Go ahead. I am the replay.'

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.

You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.

It’s the toughest decision a president has to make, by far. There is no passing the buck, no sharing the responsibility. It is a terribly lonely decision.

I think so many things look like a penalty in slow motion.

Clearly, I'm for the VAR.

A video referee is useful for sure.

The abolition of the double sanction for a foul in the box is a welcome change. There are times that you cannot help but stop your opponent in the box, with your momentum forcing you to make a challenge. Fouls can't be avoided in that situation but your intention was fair.

The UFC does what it wants. That's just how it is.

At the top end I do think it's time we have goal-line technology, I'm not mad on other technology but certainly goal-line technology.

I always said that VAR is a very important tool on objective and important decisions.

Common sense, proportionality, and judgment are the skills we must seek in those we choose to regulate our lives.

In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion.

I'm the decider, and I decide what is best.

O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.

Decide promptly, but never give any reasons for your decisions. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.

Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.

You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion

In the hands of a determined Secretary, the Foreign Service can be a splendid instrument, staffed by knowledgeable, discreet, and energetic individuals. They do require constant vigilance lest the convictions that led them into a penurious career tempt them to preempt decision-making.

The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. Not me. I don't want to be a manager or a dictator. I want to be a leader-and leadership is ongoing, adjustable, flexible, and dynamic. As such, leaders have to maintain a certain amount of discretion

The key to getting the most from choice is to be choosy about choosing.

Sometimes you need to know to quit while you're ahead or at least before things get much worse!

I decided when I was a kid that I would only go out of the house if I felt good enough to be bothered. Could I be interrupted at dinner? Am I in the mood? If I am, I go out. If I'm not, I don't! So, it's the art of deciding what the truth of your job is, and what you can and cannot handle. You can design your stresses.

Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.

The essence of intelligence was to know when, or if, to expose even the heart's deep need for instruction.