Joe Torre Quotes on Home (17 Quotes)

I don't know what the right thing to do is. I really don't. If it was my choice, I'd get out of here and play it as a home game.

We still have to stress the fact that in spite of having the ability to hit a lot of home runs, we've got to have a different mind-set, or continue to think small and let the big things happen. Sometimes when you have a club like we have, you tend to wait around for boom, boom, boom, and sometimes it doesn't happen.

Yeah, the right play was going home. It just looked like his feet got moving and it looked like they got a little tied up on him.

I got excited about it, ... People are going to remember a hit like that more than a home run when we're ahead 6-0.

It's fun to win a game like this at Yankee Stadium any time. But in the home opener, it's really special. The only way we're going to get momentum is to string some of these together.

They the Red Sox are playing at home. They're the best club in baseball at home. You can't think about them. We have to think about us. We control our destiny. If we win all our games, we win.

It's been a couple of days now and it doesn't seem to be getting any better. If it doesn't improve, we'll have to have somebody look at it when we get home.

Well, they're playing at home. They're the best club in baseball at home, so you don't think about them. You think about us.

It's certainly a tough loss. The day this type of game doesn't bother me is the day I should go home.

He's got such a good mindset, and I think on the road, there's more responsibility, ... Once you give it up on the road, you can't come back and score. It seems like you have to be a little more airtight on the road than at home, though it's the same priority. At home, you have a little bit of a safety net.

Instead of questioning the period, they're going to question the player for the whole time, and I don't think that's fair. Because he was a heck of a player as a skinny kid. He hit a lot of home runs against me. I would walk him intentionally even then, so that kind of respect was earned at that point in time.

He said he'd come out and take batting practice, but I called him and told him, 'Why don't you just stay home,' ... It will probably benefit him more to just not show up at the ballpark. He'll come back here tomorrow and maybe be a breath of fresh air.

Home run hitters just get in a groove. They have a real good swing, they see the ball well, and a lot of times, the ball just seems to stop for them.

Jason has come up in situations and you say, 'We need a home run' and he's hit one. That's storybook stuff.

I think the only good thing about the home run stuff is that everybody starts thinking Roger Maris is a good player now. He certainly has been the whole time.

We just want to get home, ... Not many guys have had their families with them the entire time and we want to get back.

Donnie hitting coach Don Mattingly felt about three days ago he was getting close. He said Sunday, after he hit the first one, that Jason has a habit of hitting two if he hits one. No sooner were the words out of his mouth, he Giambi hit a home run.