Ozzie Guillen
Ozzie Guillen
Oswaldo José "Ozzie" Guillén Barriosis a Venezuelan former professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a shortstop for 16 seasons, primarily with the Chicago White Sox, from 1985 to 2000. He then managed the White Sox from 2004 to 2011 and the Miami Marlins in 2012...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth20 January 1964
CityOcumare del Tuy, Venezuela
ace april bobby win
If you told me in April that Jose Contreras was going to be my ace and Bobby Jenks was going to be my closer, I would tell you I don't think we're going to win this.
behind camp extremely fact fighting good lead left matter meeting obviously pennant playing talked team wins winter
If you talked to me in April, as a matter of fact if you told me in the winter meeting or when we left camp this team would have 90 wins and be fighting in the pennant race, I will take that. Obviously our lead has shrunk real quick. Obviously we are not playing real good and the team behind us is playing extremely well.
beats carry chance game great home knowing lose win
If you win 94, 96 games, and someone beats you, then you go home knowing that you didn't lose, someone beat you, ... You can't let it get to you. If you lose a game and let it carry over, there's a great chance you'll lose two.
advantage hope hopefully innings pitchers
I just hope they play 20 innings. I hope they play 20 innings and the pitchers get tired, and hopefully we'll take advantage of that.
came good
We came back and that's something I feel good about. We never give up.
built defense good pitching staff team
We built this team around defense and pitching. When you've got good defense, your pitching staff is going to be better because they're not going to make that many mistakes.
biggest built defense doubt good knew reasons team won year
We built this team around defense and pitching. I think our defense was one of the biggest reasons we won the World Series, no doubt about it. I knew we were going to play good defense all year long.
gets offense
When Pods gets on base, our offense is better. It was big for him to have a day like today.
happy player wants
Any player who wants to go to his funeral, I'm more than happy to let them go.
best colon effective fastball helps high lay throwing
The best thing about Colon is you know his fastball is coming, but you still can't lay off the high pitch. He's effective with that and that helps make him a winner. When he's locating and throwing strikes, he has a lot of success.
crap happened hear people talking white
That happened to me. I was talking crap about the White Sox, but I just said it once. That's it. I got it off of my chest. If you hear it day in and day out, people get aggravated about it.
game playing sweeping
Sweeping this team, the way they were playing, is tough. I think we weren't playing the game the way we should early, but now we are getting better.
biggest game guys home hopefully maybe ready year
(Sunday) is a big game for us. Maybe the biggest game we're going to play this year and hopefully we come home with a victory. It's not going to be easy. Those guys are going to show up ready to play and ... you never know what's going to happen.
afraid dangerous turn
It's dangerous down there. I'm afraid to turn my back on those guys.