Tim Salmon
Tim Salmon
Timothy James Salmonis a former Major League Baseball right fielder and designated hitter who played his entire career with the California/Anaheim/Los Angeles Angels, appearing with the team under all three of its recent names. Known affectionately among Angels fans as the King Fish, he is considered one of the greatest players in the Angels' franchise history...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth24 August 1968
CityLong Beach, CA
appreciate opening
I've been around a lot, but can appreciate things a little differently. It's a different Opening Day just because of what I've been through.
bit good stiff
I feel good right now. It was a little stiff yesterday. I can still feel a little bit of it.
good player solid
He's just a good guy. A solid, solid player and person.
change couple gives home run speed
He's (Kenny Rogers) tough. He gives you a lot of looks. I just had one of those nights. He made a couple of mistakes. The home run was a change of speed pitch, it wasn't his fastball. I guessed right a couple of times.
angels basically blame fit guy job moving plug team tim understand
The Angels basically told me there's not a job to win. The team is moving on without Tim Salmon. I understand it. I don't blame them. I look around and, yeah, I'd like to think I fit into their plans, but from their standpoint, I'm probably not the first guy they're going to plug in.
bad balance difference
The difference is that I'm on the back end of this (career). I've been fortunate. If I have to go home, it's not a bad thing. I try to balance it with that, too.
blow course excited feels knee running
I'm more excited than I've been in many, many years. I can do some things that I haven't been able to do in 4-5 years. In some ways, I feel like a kid. My knee feels great, I'm running great. But I'm not going to blow smoke. You just don't know what it's going to be like over the course of a season.
definitely few fired throwing
He was definitely fired up those first few innings, the way he was throwing the ball.
cleveland everybody kept means newspaper stop stopping taking talking telling whether
You kept telling yourself to not look over your shoulder, but the Mariners were making so much noise. That's how Cleveland is right now. Everybody is talking about them. You've got to find a way to stop it -- whether that means taking the televisions out of the clubhouse, stopping newspaper delivery, whatever. You've got to do it.
allow bring coming filling good guys ownership pieces whatever
When we were coming up, it was kind of a retooling thing and we were filling in with whatever you could fill in with. (Now) you've got a good ownership that's not only going to allow those guys to play, but they're going to bring in the pieces and make it competitive and allow them to win.
ideas lines fields
I have always been determined to never compromise my faith or my principles. I always relied on my God-given talent when I took the field. So the idea of using PED's to enhance my performance was a line I chose not to cross.
jesus powerful hands
When we have an understanding that the Lord is all powerful, then we know that we need to trust Him each and every day. This understanding allows us to lay our worries in the Lord's hands. In return, we can focus everything that we do into glorifying Jesus.
affords america country freedom time
All we can do is play ball. Every time we go out on the field, we do what we do in America - live in the freedom that our country affords us.
assumed led totally
We were totally in Chicago's position. We led the whole way, and for a long time, it was just assumed that we were going to play in the postseason.