Hopefully, we sneak up and bite them. But we haven't done anything yet. We haven't earned that spotlight like everybody else. ... We are the Cinderella of the playoffs. It's a great feeling when they don't pick you and all of a sudden you make it. |
Hopefully, we'll play the last month the way we started the season. A lot of teams go through this. |
Hopefully, when the game starts, he'll be ready and hopefully, we won't need to use him. |
Houston has some of the best players coming out of the country, and they trade everyone. I don't know what's the reason to trade all those kids. Houston had Santana and Garcia and Abreu. They are pretty loaded. |
How can you be a choker or a loser when you've won 91 games? |
I always believe that it's not the way you start, it's the way you finish. If people thought we weren't going to lose one, they're crazy. |
I always like, when a guy is ready, to give him another day to see how he feels. If he doesn't play tomorrow, we might give him that extra day with the day off Tuesday to make sure he's 100 percent ready. |
I always say you're a good coach when you have good players, ... We have a pretty good pitching staff, it's easy to go coach that one. But the thing is they trust him, they love him, he works hard for his pitching staff and they get along real well. |
I always say, `Don't let the monster wake up,' ... I said that against Boston (in the previous round), and I said that against Cleveland (in the regular season). |
I always say, don't let the monster wake up. |
I always trust my players. |
I always wanted to get off the field as quick as I could. It's easier for everybody and it's more fun. I played behind Maddux a little bit (in Atlanta in 1998-99) and you knew that on any pitch, the (hitter) was going to put the ball in play. You enjoy the game a little bit more when you have a pitcher like that. |
I am not panicking. I just expect him to throw more strikes. |
I apologize to Alex Rodriguez, his family, his fans, the New York Yankee organization, to the White Sox organization. |
I apologize to Alex Rodriguez, his family, his fans, the New York Yankee organization, to the White Sox organization. That's the first time I feel like I did something wrong. I've been in a lot of controversial things before, but I think I started this one and I'm going to finish it. ... What I did to Alex was wrong. He can do whatever he wants. If he wants to play for Japan, fine for him. |