Joe Torre Quotes

In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.

Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.

I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.

I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?

I don't pay attention a whole lot to what my numbers are.

The statistics might have a Eurosceptic cast, but they are not exactly a fun read. Few of us want to wade through ONS graphs or European Commission tables.

It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as a player. How pitchers are pitching you, how defenses are playing, certain situations about certain pitchers.

That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers.

If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.

If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect 3,000 hits and 1,000 errors.

I'm not a big 'Moneyball' fan.

If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

We must never let a blizzard of statistics blind us to the real lives and people behind them.

To understand God’s thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of his purpose.

For me, the game starts with starting pitching.

Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.

The numbers are hard to control.

I think anytime that you can eliminate the big hit, it's obviously not only going to be good for your team, but it's going to be good for yourself.

Statistics are one thing. But if you're not putting up the numbers as far as winning, they're not going to consider you for things like the MVP.

I'm not too worried about stats and stuff like that.

I've got a lot of stats. I did a lot of stuff.

I think the biggest thing that I learned, and why I've fallen in love with baseball, is how mental of a game it is. It's such a mental sport, and it's beautiful. I think definitely the mental aspect, the stats, and the mathematics, that, to me, really blew me away.

I don't really miss pitching in games, and I don't think my arm could hold up. I would still love to try the radar gun, just not pitch on a consistent basis. I'd love to go and try to fire up the gun, though.