Joe Torre Ready Quotations

If I used him as a pinch-hitter, I could probably get away with it because I could pinch-run for him, ... But we want him to be ready to be a D.H.

My guess is, if he was ready he would have been the name they gave me, and it wasn't.

We're not trying to rush him to get ready for any particular date. But compare this year to last year and it's night and day for him.

We don't know if he's ready or not, ... But he's going to become a very important player one of these days and it is liable to be now.

It's ready-get set-go time of year. We've got to come ready to play every day on both sides of the ball, and I couldn't be more pleased by what I'm seeing.

We're ready to go. We're as ready as we're going to be.

We're ready to go. We don't need to work on anything, or do anything -- everybody's had enough work.

We're fine. We're ready to go. Everybody's had enough work.

My feeling is that once he starts, he'll come quickly. We'll let the people down there who are watching him make the determination of when he's ready for competition at this level.

Mike is very responsible, I think you all know that, so I'm not really concerned about the fact that he'll be ready to pitch.