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
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.
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.
bother feels knows tough tried
We tried to get something done. I think he (Contreras) feels comfortable here and I don't think things are going to bother him. Jose is a tough man. He knows what he is doing, especially where he comes from.
games played
We just play, ... We played 162 games with the same attitude.
babe dumb trade
We weren't dumb enough to trade Babe Ruth,
against compete earn last whatever white
We have to compete against the world champions. We never did as a White Sox organization in the last 80 years or whatever it is, we never did anything to earn that respect.
five four guys hopefully maybe pitch rest sit sneak talk
We will sit down and talk and right now we're not in a six-man rotation, ... It's not easy, but it will be a real interesting talk. Maybe the guys want to pitch with five days' rest and not four and we can sneak him in and hopefully he can pitch the way he is.
bases game hitters loaded won
We had the bases loaded and we should have won the game right there. The hitters got to be better in the stretch. It's not going to be easy.