Joe Torre Quotes

I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems to be at best a momentary joy followed instantly by sadness, and, then, of necessity, by wariness.

Winning, to me, is relief; losing is like dying. It's gut-wrenching.

You lose a game and you feel like the world is coming down. You win, it's like, you're supposed to win.

You have a lot of emotion at the end of the race. It is not easy to control that when you win.

Everything looks nicer when you win. The girls are prettier. The cigars taste better. The trees are greener.

I will remember this day for the rest of my life. There is nothing you can say. It's just like you won the match after the earthquake and it just feels great.

A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.

The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.

For me soccer provides so many emotions, a different feeling every day. I've had the good fortune to take part in major competitions like the Olympics, and winning the World Cup was also unforgettable. We lost in the Olympics and won in the World Cup, and I'll never forget either feeling.

There is winning and there is misery.

There have been many races in the past that I have won and not been happy, and other times when I finished maybe eighth but was really happy with my driving.

When you win by three touchdowns in a state championship and you've got people who can't appreciate that? That's really sad.

You only appreciate what it feels like to win the Champions League after you've seen it snatched away from you.

If you win a game, everyone is happy, and if you lose, everyone is watching you.

When you win, everything is so beautiful, and when you don't, it's not, so everything is darker.

Sometimes in football, you live great moments, and you live some sad moments.

The good wins are still great, and you are on cloud nine when that happens, but the losses sting.

You don't forget everything that happens when you win, and you definitely don't forget what happens when you lose.

I've always been like that: after a loss, I go home and pass out and don't give it another thought. When I'm winning, I'm too excited.

Football is cruel at times; it's difficult. When things go well, you're very good, and when they go badly, well, it's awful.

If you get the feeling of winning, you want to have the feeling again.

It's tough to lose, but it's a lot tougher to lose knowing how good it is to win, how good it feels to win.

I am never happy if we are not winning.

It's difficult to win trophies with Dortmund but it's always possible. And when it happens, the feeling is simply indescribable.

To be nominated was enough, but when I won I the Tony I just felt relief.