Don Zimmer
Don Zimmer
Donald William Zimmerwas an American infielder, manager, and coach in Major League Baseball. Zimmer was involved in professional baseball from 1949 until his death, a span of 65 years...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth17 January 1931
CityCincinnati, OH
CountryUnited States of America
call clutch guys
Our guys used to call him Mr. Clutch. He was a clutch pitcher.
ask coaches contract knows next nobody room
We ask each other about it in the coach's room every day. What do you think is going to happen? Nobody knows anything. All I know is Lou's got a contract for next year, and all the coaches have contracts, too.
ball caught games hit kid seventh speed taken win yogi
When Yogi hit the ball down the left-field line, with Amoros' speed and being a left-handed thrower -- a right-handed thrower probably couldn't have caught the ball. I always kid around with people. I say, 'I was very important in that seventh game.' You don't win many games by being taken out of the game.
bay devil gone home job leave living plus tampa
I don't want to, anyway. I've got a job here with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. I'm at home and I don't want to leave home. Living at home is a big plus after you've been gone from home for 55 years.
ask good nobody
I don't think so. I have a good job. I'm getting up in years. I don't want to manage. That's out of the question. Nobody has to ask to me. That's the way it is.
bench catcher coach decided engineer good great manager
He could have been an engineer and he would have been a great one, but he decided to be a catcher and he was a good one. Then he decided to be a bench coach and he was a good one. Now he is going to be a manager and he is going to be a good one.
believe everybody hard series team three win won
We won '98, '99 and 2000. I don't think you'll see that again. I really don't believe you'll see a team win three World Series in a row. Not that we were so much better than everybody else, but that's how hard it is to even win one World Series.
drift eight mean players seven tends
Of course, I was there eight years. Seven of the eight years, we had a team. A team. You know what I mean by team? A team. I think when you go through so many players and changes, that tends to drift away a little bit.
ball best guy hit pitches saw ted took tried umpire whether
Probably the best I saw was a guy they said took pitches too much, that he should have tried to hit a ball even if it was a little outside: It was Ted Williams. They say he would tell the umpire whether it was a ball or strike.
calling committed companies
A lot of companies are calling for availability, but we're committed to FEMA.
hired man older promised thee took
Someone will say he's too young of a guy. Well, only thee years ago they hired an older man who took them to the promised land,
couple next talking
I'll be talking to him a lot in the next couple of months.
anybody anywhere treated
I don't want to go anywhere but here. They've treated me well. I don't know how anybody could be treated any better. This is where I want to be, and I'm not going anyplace.
easily gone
It just as easily could have gone the other way.