When your enemy's down, you've got to keep your enemy down. You make some noise and you wake up the monster, you're going to be in trouble. |
Whether you won or lost the night before, it's a brand new game. It' s my job and my coaches' job to remind the players that no matter what happened last night, it doesn't mean anything today. This is not like football where you have to wait one week to recover. You just have to get up every day and fight. If you carry it over, you're a loser. |
Whoever get the most hits with two outs is the one that's going to win. |
Why did I make the lineup like that? Cause I'm the manager, |
Why is the lineup this way? ... Because I'm the manager. I wanted it that way. A couple of guys needed rest. |
With 99 wins we should get a little respect, a little love, ... But honestly, I kind of like [not getting any]. I was with a team a couple years ago that wasn't supposed to win one game, then all of a sudden won the world championship. |
With all the negative stuff going on around here, the crazy Ozzie has won [96] games and has 30-or-something one-run wins, ... How many other managers can do that? |
With the way the offense is hitting now, we're going to take advantage of any mistake a team makes. |
Yeah, we're keeping our eyes on him. I told him: 'You make it harder on yourself. You work out in the winter, you don't have to do it in spring training. Just maintain your workout. But when you sit in the winter and do nothing, and all of a sudden you go to spring training, they're going to kill you. |
Yes. And that's why I don't want to hurry it. We have kind of an idea about what we're going to do. I have to talk to [general manager] Kenny [Williams] about this, I have to talk to [pitching coach Don] Cooper about this, but we have to do it. |
You can go either way with it, |
You don't see that everyplace. I think the Cleveland fans should be proud of this team, what this team did, what it did for baseball. They're going to be a team to watch for years to come. |
You don't throw strikes, you're going to get murdered. We came in here and all of a sudden it was like we're facing Nolan Ryan. You may throw 99 (mph), but you still need to throw strikes. |
You don't win games in the paper. You don't win games running your mouth. You go out there and perform and do the best you can and see what happens. The comments [the Indians] made, I could care less. We just worry about winning games. |
You face that kind of lineup, you will be hit. |