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
amazing appreciate ballpark baseball bring chicago city earned empty fans feeling fun good guys half media missing nice people players stomach turned
We appreciate the way the fans have turned out this year. But you have an empty feeling in your stomach when you come out and see half of the ballpark empty. The players earned the people to be watching. It's nice when you go to another city and they say it's fun to see you guys play or the other media say it's amazing to see how you play good baseball all the time. And then you come to Chicago and you feel like you are missing something. You feel like we've done what we have to do to bring people to the ballpark.
almost career spend
We're in Chicago. When you spend almost your whole career here, you know what to expect.
build joe pitching team
We're going to build this team around pitching and defense, and Joe has been a big part of that.
continue
We're going to continue to look around and see what happens.
crazy hitting
We're hitting like crazy right now. It's about time. In 2005, it was just pitching, pitching, pitching.
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.
consistent eighth ninth season struggled
We need that. We've really struggled all season long in the seven, eighth and ninth (spots). No one was consistent there.
We are here, they are not, because we pitched better.
boston clubhouse trip
We're not going to use them. Making the trip for no reason, Boston is real uncomfortable, the clubhouse is small.
clubhouse goose matter prepare today watching
Today I was in the clubhouse and we were watching the highlights. You do get goose bumps. But in the meanwhile, you've got to be careful. No matter what you do today, just prepare yourself for tomorrow. Don't get too cocky.
carried nice pitching score staff team
The pitching staff has carried this team the whole year, but it's nice when you score a lot of runs.
count four gave guys nice walk
When he gave me that answer, it was just walk away and let him pitch. I think it's nice when you have four guys you can count on.
knows ready
We have to get him ready so he knows how to prepare.
alex fine wants whatever
What I did to Alex was wrong. He can do whatever he wants. If he wants to play for Japan, fine for him.