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He never got there as a player or manager with Atlanta, St. Louis or the New York Mets - his stops before Steinbrenner hired him with the Yankees. "The Yankee thing was a bonus for me ... I was just very fortunate the other people that were on that list already had jobs to go to. I still think I was at the bottom of that list, which doesn't insult me, when you're talking about Sparky Anderson, Davey Johnson and Tony La Russa. I feel very blessed to have gotten that opportunity, andto have been there that long. It's crazy." Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. Full Article at KIVITV.com
The Yankee thing was a bonus for me ... I was just very fortunate the other people that were on that list already had jobs to go to. I still think I was at the bottom of that list, which doesn't insult me, when you're talking about Sparky Anderson, Davey Johnson and Tony La Russa. I feel very blessed to have gotten that opportunity, andto have been there that long. It's crazy.
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Dodgers take Torre into 14th postseason appearance
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but when that happened, he said, 'All right guys, it's part of the game. We're going to keep going out, keep battling, having fun, having quality at-bats, and we'll find our way upstairs at the end of the year.'
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He's just as relaxed whether we were winning 15-0 or losing 20-0. He keeps the same mentality ... When things weren't going well for us, he'd throw a speech in every now and then. But no matter what we were going through, he's seen it all already. So nothing that we do is new to him.
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He and Mr. Cox are definitely two first-ballot Hall of Famers, two old-school managers who have been around the game a long, long time ... They've managed some great players, some Hall of Famers - they've had it all. They've been through every situation that baseball can imagine having, and they've both...
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Every team will get to that little bump in the road
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The thing I'm most pleased about, probably, is coming here after leaving New York and inheriting a team with a lot of talent, then being able to add some special pieces and being able to have the success we've had in the lastcouple of years
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He was still going in the weight room to work out, still laughing and talking on the bench, just taking it one dayat a time ... That's just the way he is, man. He's just relaxed, because he knows this game is not easy to play.
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If the team is going in a certain direction that he doesn't like, he addresses it right away. He doesn't like to let things carry on ... He doesn't get caught up in every moment, but at the same time, he realized that you've got to keep the same attitude every day.
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