He seems different. But how can you not be? He doesn't have 40 people standing at his locker every day. He can go and do what he wants to do. People aren't asking thousands of questions. That makes it easier for him. |
He showed a lot of character and a lot of guts to come back down here and strap it on and win those two matches. Even in the third-place match, he was thinking about the team when he got another takedown for a major. |
He stacks up well. He's speedy. He's tough. He has breakaway speed. The thing I like the most about him is he's a tough customer. That guy's fearless, a hard-nosed, tough kid. We always have room for those guys here. |
He still can be just as dominating when he wants to. I think sometimes now, when he makes a mistake, it may get hit a little bit more often, because he doesn't throw 98 or 99 now. But he's still a dominating pitcher. |
He told me he was plenty willing to go back out there, to eat up some innings to help the bullpen. But I wouldn't call it an argument. We've run into situations like this before and he's argued a lot more vehemently. |
He took to football. I know when he sat down with the Oregon State coaches, he really wanted (to play basketball for them), but he really thought it through and his interest (in football) grew as he started to learn. |
He touched the lives of many people. ... He was a faithful friend and very supportive of colleagues in his field, ... We [at the department] are moved by the outpouring of letters from former students and colleagues. |
He walked out the bloody door and was never around. I'd admire him on TV -- listen to his words and opinions. But for someone who was praised for peace and love and wasn't able to keep that at home, that's hypocrisy. |
He wanted to see how truly profitable his customers were. He had an intuitive sense -- we've got all these great customers (we think) but we need to find what it's costing us to serve them. His intuition was correct. |
He was a great player. We were doing our outfield drills today and I asked Davey Nelson and Gary Pettis to tell us some Kirby stories. They were telling us about some of the good times they had with him. It was nice. |
He was able to turn [the program] around and get it going in the right direction. He's been an unbelievable ambassador and has been a great coach, a great friend and one of the best guys you'd ever want to work with. |
He was hugely talented and had a regard for the written word. He had a writer's judgement about what did and didn't work. He was not invented by television. He was the finished article when he appeared on television. |
He was so creative with the ball, he was terrific in transition with the ball, but more than anything, he really led a group of all-stars at an all-star camp and was all about winning. That's what we loved about him. |
He will be very welcome, and he will get a great reception, why not? He deserves it because of the fact he was one of our great players, a very special player, a colossus, a giant of a man in every sense of the word. |
He worked a little bit but not as much as I hoped he would, ... There's not really any kind of setback. He does have a bone bruise and he has just not responded as quickly as I had hoped and his status is day to day. |