Frank Robinson Quotes (301 Quotes)

It sure was welcome. Like old times.

He had a live arm, but he couldn't find the strike zone. You expect him to be a little sharper, but he'll throw better the next time out.

Yeah, I can appreciate it. You just make a slight mistake with him and don't get the ball exactly where you want it, he makes you pay.

People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card.

We will have experienced guys sitting on the bench this year that have been successful in that role they play. They understand it and accept it and produce in that role. So it should be better.

At least when it's in French, I won't know what the heck they're saying.

I don't like the overall results. To say the effort is not there would be a little harsh, but we're not doing the things that we are capable of doing to get the results we need. We are not making plays, we are making errors, we are not making pitches like we should and we are not hitting in situations.

It just goes to show you he's focused as far as his offense is concerned. The plays in the outfield, I tried to warn anybody who would listen, it's going to be a work in progress. He got a little lesson today, and if he learns from these things, that's what we want. We don't want him to make the same kind of mistakes two or three times.

We had our emotions in control. We just made a couple of a bad pitches, really. We didn't make good pitches in this series, and they hit them, especially tonight.

The way we're going... if I called up another pitcher, he'd just hang up the phone on me.

I don't want him to carry that into the season with a tender arm, and you probably saw some throws yesterday that weren't quality throws. That was an alarm to me to get him out of there and try to get this thing right.

We know why we came up short today and hopefully we can take advantage of 12 hits and score more runs the next time we get 12 hits. I hope it's not August.

It might not last until we get to San Diego. But it certainly should show these guys what they're capable of doing if each individual would go up there and do what he's capable of doing, and think about it being a team effort.

September can really be like fool's gold, ... You don't want to get too excited about Septembers.

Brooks never impressed me because you were accustomed to him making the plays. This kid reminds me a lot of Brooks on those plays. Brooks owned those things. Brooks was very good on those slow rollers coming in.

We don't have to get that far ahead. That's a long way off.

If somebody is hot, you reward him if the other guy is struggling a little bit. That's the nature of the game. As a manager, you have to take advantage of the guys when they are swinging the bat well.

I think it's a lack of concentration and preparation. I don't mean before-the-game stuff, I mean in-game. I don't think we are doing that ... I don't think our minds are in the game. I haven't seen us make errors on difficult plays. We are making errors on routine plays.

Any time a coach has to take the full blame, he's the fall guy, ... He can't go up there and hit.

We've just been very fortunate we had good success against him and made good pitches on him, ... You have to contain him. You don't just totally shut him down.

I don't see him being back from this in the short period of time that's left. It's too bad.

We need to start performing the way this team is capable of and what we expect - and that's pitching, defense and hitting. Until we do that, we're going to get beat.

It seems like every team has a guy that is fortunate that the team scores for (him), and there's that hard-luck guy they don't score for.

Things are starting to come together. Like I told you guys, it was very important that we got something going before we dug a deep hole for ourselves. It takes an awful lot to come out of that. Slowly, we're starting to do that.

If nothing else, your mindset is at ease. You have peace of mind. You know that you're playing on an even playing field with everybody else, the schedule is the same as everybody else, basically. You don't have that extra travel. You don't have those extra games tacked onto a road trip. You're not out on the road, away from your home base for 20-some days. It makes a real big difference. You can see it already here. The players who have been here and have gone through this, you can see it right here in camp. You could hear it in their voices on the telephone during the winter. Now, does that translate into wins on the field Who knows.

He's in complete control of that ballgame, ... He's a battler, a warrior. And I'm not going to take him out of there.

I don't believe in walking anybody in the first inning with the bases loaded or whatever. I don't think they've made that guy yet. But he does deserve attention and respect in situations.

He's not even close to being what he's capable of being when he's healthy, ... He needs a day off. He's hurting.

But if you finish over .500, you can say, 'We can go from here. If we win 'x' number of games more than we won last year, we can win this thing.'

We don't seem to be able to handle pitchers we don't know. First-time guys, we seem to struggle with them. We're just not swinging the bats very well right now.

I wasn't going to sit there and wait until he threw the game away in the first inning. You're going to pitch for me, you've got to throw strikes.

If I had my druthers, I'd get a multiyear contract, for the next three years, and then that would be enough managing,

I don't know if it hurt his development, but it certainly didn't help.

It's a regrettable incident. I'm sure that these guys support Jim like I do, today and in the future on this thing.

It's inconsistency. One game we look like we are ready to go get it started and the next day we come out and we fall right back into a rut. It's inconsistency. We are not producing a consistent offense.

I thought overall it was a very good year. We had a good first half and a terrible second half. In spring training, if you asked people what would you be happy with, I think they would have said they would be happy with a .500 record.

I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be.

He's a very unique individual. Not everybody can do what he does. It comes from his background, his work ethic. He loves the work load. He wants to throw as many innings as possible. He loves doing it.

We'll go through the whole staff again tomorrow.

Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss.

No, I don't think my presence will cause an increase in black attendance at Cleveland.

I wanted to take a look at him at shortstop. It could work, but I don't know the next time he'll be out there.

Zimmerman makes a knack of making that diving play. He just has tremendous reflexes.

The bullpen has come through a lot of times this year. We needed the bullpen tonight and they did a tremendous job,

Of course, he was depressed, disgusted, whatever. We all want to play this game healthy. When we're not healthy, we can't perform as well. And in his case, he was missing out of the lineup. That's not good.

We have some people that might be a backup to Clayton. Damian has gotten innings at shortstop this spring. We still have plenty of time. I've been assured that Damian can be a backup at shortstop. We have to wait and see.

He has that mentality, ... You have to have a short memory as a closer.

I might be more reasonable with it. There will be a certain time when the things go off. At a certain time, you have to start preparing yourself for the ballgame and think about the people around you.

Hopefully, he'll get three at-bats in a shorter period of time hitting at the top of the lineup.

I'm very proud of Brian the way he has progressed over the years, especially since he's been the everyday catcher. He's improved in his offensive part of the game, he's improved in his defensive part of the game and he's improved in his overall play -- pitch-calling. There's no reason why, and I expect him to continue to make that type of progress and continue to improve overall. Not just in his offense. I still think Brian has room to improve defensively and calling of games and handling the pitching staff in situations.