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May 21, 2001 The Week in QuotesMay 14-20TUESDAYS WITH RICKEY
"I accept it as respect. You're trying to boo Rickey to get his attention.
You're paying attention to me. You're talking to me."
"I didn't know what to expect, but a lot of the fans were saying good things
to me and that made me feel good."
NO FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS, PLEASE
"It's sad for me to see him go. He did more work for our staff than anybody
I've been around. But in major league baseball, when you don't perform
things like this happen."
"All of a sudden, now it's Cam Bonifay's fault that we're not winning.
That's the most ridiculous statement in the world. Cam Bonifay doesn't throw
one baseball, doesn't attempt to hit one, doesn't make one hook slide,
doesn't throw anyone out at the plate. His job is to acquire players, and
he's done a damn good job of it."
SMART GUYS
"I never really worried about it. I'm always trying to just worry about
pitching, and run support has nothing to do with pitching. I mean, I've
never really worried about it, and hopefully, I never will."
"People are down on me, the fans, the media, saying it was a bad trade. But
batting average is probably the most overrated statistic in baseball.
Scoring runs and driving in runs to win--that's the thing."
UH, NOT AS SMART AS THE SMART GUYS
"Being able to throw that many pitches shows my arm is healthy,"
"I'll take that all day long. I'm happy with that. Nine hits in six innings
is a lot of hits, but they were spread out and that was the key."
ALL QUOTES GUARANTEED REAL
"His last pitch, his only poor pitch. He forced that pitch. If he had let it
go easily as he had been doing before that, I feel he'd have rolled through
the ninth.... 130 pitches, no problem for a big guy six weeks into the
season."
"We found the spot where you don't want to pitch to Gonzalez. How we kept
throwing it there, I don't know."
FEELING FINE
"My first at-bat, four balls in a row. I say, 'What's going on? He's a
strike machine. He's a strike machine. That's when I knew it was going to be
a good day for me.'"
"Shoot, I feel good--and not too many guys hitting .200 feel good about
themselves. I show up every day, play hard and hold my head up."
THE REST
"No more Ichiro questions."
"I wasn't going to give in. I knew the fans wanted it more than anything
else."
"[Adam Kennedy]'ll surprise you. If he gets a ball that he can drive, he
certainly showed that he can hit the ball out of the ballpark. I think he's
more patient this year and you're seeing him work deeper counts, which will
pay off for him."
"I was definitely not drafted as a position player."
"This just came out of right field and smacked us across the face. We don't
look at the big picture. That's the only way to do it. Look at the game that
night and take it for what it's worth. If nothing else, we're all
professionals and we're being paid money--some of us a lot of money. There's
no reason why you can't go out and work hard for three or four hours a
night."
"I used to draw that much for batting practice."
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