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
excited great people wait work
I'm excited for the people here. They wait so long for this to happen. It was a lot of work but a great thing to get it done.
criticize easy happened sudden work
It's not easy when you play or work in one place that many years and all of a sudden you're gone. Because it happened to me before, I'm not going to criticize Frank.
deserve hard team teams tough worked year
That team worked so hard all year long, they deserve to do what they're doing now. Finally, they can say, 'We did it!' A lot of teams made it tough on us. It wasn't easy.
switched worked
I switched my mind, ... It worked for us.
bit feels might needs position short talk third work
He's going to play a lot in the outfield. I'll use him at third and a little bit at second. I might not use him at short because I don't know how comfortable he feels there. I'll talk to him about what position he needs to work on the most and that's what he'll play.
along coach easy good hard love pitching staff trust works
I always say you're a good coach when you have good players, ... We have a pretty good pitching staff, it's easy to go coach that one. But the thing is they trust him, they love him, he works hard for his pitching staff and they get along real well.
ball count great location outing pays throwing time work
He was throwing the ball real well. The outing before, it was between location and tipping the pitch. You can count on him every time he comes out, because he's a great worker. When you work that hard, it pays off.
hard man says works
I like the man because I think he works hard for the country. I don't say I like his ideas. I don't say I like the way he is. I just said I like the man because he works hard and he says what he thinks.
guys hits hitting nine nobody sudden three time tonight walk
When we were really struggling, you didn't see guys get two hits in a game. Any time someone got one hit, one walk -- nobody could put it together. Tonight when we were hitting the ball, one guy got three hits, one had two RBIs, one had two hits, all of a sudden you don't need nine guys to get a hit -- just two or three to get a hit at the right time.
continue
We're going to continue to look around and see what happens.
build joe pitching team
We're going to build this team around pitching and defense, and Joe has been a big part of that.
knows ready
We have to get him ready so he knows how to prepare.
best doubt games mirror nine pitching runs score staff
When you score nine runs, these are games you have to win, no doubt about it. When your best thing is the pitching staff and you score nine runs for the pitching staff we've had all year, no way we should have lost. We have to look in the mirror and pitch better.
cocky last rub year
When you're world champions, you (can) be cocky or try to rub it in their face. It's nice. You have the ring, you have the trophy. I always said last year, 'We're not that good.' This year it's the same way.