Kenny Williams
Kenny Williams
becomes common criticized critics-and-criticism doubted guy sports team tough
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.
bunch guy guys picked reasons team
One of the reasons we picked each guy on this team is we wanted a bunch of fighters, guys that could be resilient.
chance offer team together
We'll offer him as much as we can offer him and still have a chance to keep the whole of the team together and win,
team
Give me a team of overachievers and let's see what happens.
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Just because we've come off a world championship, we have work to do as a team and as an organization, and as individuals. Ozzie is still growing into the position and the responsibility of the position as well as I am. We'll just continue to try to evolve in a way that is a first-class and respectable way. We not only want to try to win, we want to try to win in a first-class manner and be known as a first-class organization. Clearly, we have a little bit of work to do, but we will keep at it.
family father grown team
I do because my father is connected, ... That's the team I've grown up with all my life. It's pretty much a family thing.
hear members move word
I'm going to tell you this. As long as I don't hear another word about this organization or the members of this organization, I won't have another thought about this. And we'll move on.
four games talk win won
It's very similar, but we haven't won anything yet, ... We need to win four more games and then talk about comparisons.
exactly people
That's exactly what we needed. I don't want people who are going to tell me what I want to hear.
burning fire
The interesting thing for me is let's see if we can do it again. That fire is burning even hotter.
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We weren't diverse enough, ... We needed to get better in certain areas, pitching primarily and defense secondarily. We didn't go out and try to reinvent the wheel. We just fell back on what has been timeless.
certainly pleased result
We are certainly pleased with where he is and where we are as a result of what he has done.
benchmark explain percentage playoff successful trends
You can look at different trends to explain it, a .355 on-base percentage being the benchmark for a successful playoff team,
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We talked, he called. And from what I understand, all the things he's been saying since December have been not written as said. He says that he was surprised that what he said has been written bad and the way he has said it. He thinks it's a Chicago writers' problem with him.