Ken Williams
Ken Williams
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We certainly like the feel of the champagne dripping off our clothes. We all are competitors. I said years ago that we not only wanted to win one, but we wanted to have sustained success. We wanted to build a brand. We took a major step forward with winning the World Series, but to cement ourselves in the Chicago market and the national market, we have to keep pushing.
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Chicago is tough-minded city. Similar to New York, Boston, Philly,
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I'm probably the only guy in Chicago who doesn't have the luxury of relishing in the sentimentality of what happened last season. The defeatist attitude that we'll always be Chicago's second team doesn't fly with me.
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I'm optimistic that something will work out, ... You have a player that wants to be in Chicago and you have a club that wants him to be in Chicago.
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We think we're insulated against a lot of things.
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There are several colleges and universities around the country that offer motorsports programs like ours, but to my knowledge, we are the first to offer a motorsports course online,
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What is our record? I don't even know. Like I told Ozzie, the only thing he's proven is that he can win a World Series, not that he can have a .500 record in spring training.
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With his knowledge of pitchers in this league, he could be an asset to his teammates just by being around,
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We're diverse because we're looking for the best in talent and character. It just happened that way. I could care less what the makeup of the club is as long as it works as a whole.
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You look around at our team, ... and it's tough to find a guy who hasn't been doubted or criticized in some way. They all have that as a common denominator, and it becomes part of your personality as a team.
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At that time people didn't run a lot. Some woman in the neighborhood called the police and said there was a man running and that I must be up to something.
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When we left the stadium (in Houston) the night we won, I was thinking how we could improve over the winter,
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I grew up a Raiders fan, ... I've seen it work.
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I didn't want him thinking that because we weren't going to talk contract that it was indicative of our feelings toward him. So here we are, and it obviously makes it a little more difficult to get something done. But if there's a desire on both parts, then I'm more optimistic than not.