Tony Russa
Tony Russa
happened magic merit watch
I happened to watch it on TV. That doesn't merit an ejection. He didn't say any magic words. He really didn't make a big thing of it.
happened magic merit watch
I happened to watch it on TV. That doesn't merit an ejection, ... He didn't say any magic words. He really didn't make a big thing of it.
believe dangerous firmly leagues miss ought perfect rather
I firmly believe it's such a dangerous thing, if you can get in the big leagues you ought to have enough command. You don't have to be perfect down there but if you're going to miss, miss down rather than up.
guys kept year
I feel like in that series, just like all year long, when things got tense, each of those guys made pitches, and we kept the lead,
barely baseball club deserves good great last quality run season squeeze week win
What's different about this club, when you have this many setbacks, it's usually part of why you don't win or you barely squeeze by in the last week of the season with a good but not great record. To have this kind of run and play this quality of baseball for this long is why this club deserves a very different kind of credit.
decisions hoped
You hoped it would be complicated. We're going to have some decisions to make, which is good.
excellence performance privilege watch
What a performance we're watching. It's just been a privilege to watch this kind of excellence.
excellence great greater nobody performance privilege watch
What a performance we're watching. It's been a privilege to watch this kind of excellence. A lot like our first baseman. ... He's had a great, great year. Nobody has had a greater one.
definitely face great guy knows type
When you face a guy who's been such a great teammate, and we have experienced so much together, it makes it a lot more personal. We know him, he knows us. It's definitely a different type of game.
against care command edge guy pushes regular roger season starts umpire whoever
When you go against a guy like Greg Maddux or a Roger Clemens, I don't care if it's a regular season game, is a guy with that kind of command and if he starts getting an edge he pushes and pushes it so it's up to whoever the umpire is,
gets help hitting hope key middle whatever wherever
We've got to get him going. He's one of our key guys, so whatever it takes. If hitting in the middle gets him going, then we'll do something else at second. I hope he gets it going, because he can help us wherever he hits.
dallas donate goes gotten national open saying sunday tour
We've just gotten so lucky. Like Gretchen saying she would help. She's going to do our show on Sunday night. On Monday, she goes to Dallas to open her first national tour as a headliner. That she would do this, donate her time, is incredible.
game houston magic object preference taken though win zero
We would have taken the zero even if Houston loses. The object is just to get (our magic number) to zero, ... If you have your preference though it's to win a game to get there.
adversity good guys left reason worked
When we've got into some kind of adversity, when we've had to go left or right, up or down, it's been good for us. And the reason that it's worked that way is that these guys have been very strong-minded, very tough-minded about not conceding anything.