Joe Torre Sort Quotations

The kid has been through a lot, but we were sort of up against it. He's certainly had a tough week.

We had to weigh all the information, ... but we decided the defensive part of it carries the most weight, so we were sort of leaning that way.

To wind up in Cooperstown is surreal for me. To go into the Hall of Fame is one thing. When you think of all the other Yankees that are in here, it's pretty special. This is just a shrine. To visit it, much less be inducted, it's still sort of unbelievable to me.

It gets to the point where they just stopped thinking, went out there and reacted. It was sort of a playful determination that they had out there.

I haven't taken his pulse lately; it barely moves. But he pitched well for us last year, and sometimes a little bit of a language barrier is an advantage. You're not having to answer a lot of questions and converse with a lot of people. It sort of insulates you. I have no doubt he'll be able to handle it.

He carried that with him the first half of the year. If for some reason his routine gets disrupted, (he's) sort of off-center. But he left spring with a good look in his eye.