Jeff Conine
Jeff Conine
Jeffrey Guy Conineis a former Major League Baseball player who played 17 seasons with six teams primarily as an outfielder. An inaugural member of the Florida Marlins who was with the franchise for both of its World Series titles, he earned the title Mr. Marlin for his significant history with the club, and his ties to South Florida...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth27 June 1966
accomplish almost focus gets goal last night standing teams win
You focus on your end goal -- to make the playoffs. You know what you have to accomplish every night to do that. You go out there and try to win that game. It's a dogfight. When you have this many teams bunched up this tight, it's almost like the last one standing gets to go to the playoffs.
close fun playing race
We're playing terrible. It's disheartening. You're close to being in a race and playing terrible. It's not very fun.
dugout giving hitting instead maybe
We're in the dugout hitting instead of maybe giving up another run,
everybody game last men needed played step took ugly
We had a real ugly game yesterday. It probably needed to be said, and it was said. I think everybody took it as men and said, 'You know what? It was ugly and we played poorly. So we have to step it up the last week.
chances win
We had chances to win and we didn't do it. Now we're going to have to win them all, I think.
coming nobody time work
When I was first coming up, you were never late, never said anything. It's a rule. You show up on time and work hard, nobody will say anything to you.