Ozzie Guillen Quotes on Games (16 Quotes)

You don't win games in the paper. You don't win games running your mouth. You go out there and perform and do the best you can and see what happens. The comments the Indians made, I could care less. We just worry about winning games.

We've got five starters who go deep into games, so we might not have to go crazy about hurrying to get somebody. I would worry if the starters went down.

I told him not to worry about it. I told him not to put too much pressure on himself. The way he hits, his timing has to be perfect. But there are still a lot of games left down here and he's going to have plenty of at-bats to get his stuff together.

I never believe managers win games or managers lose games. The type of players I have in my clubhouse, those are the type of players that can win with anybody running the club.

We have a lot of games to go and not that many players in camp. Everybody will get a legit chance. The guy who can pinch-hit and play once in a while, he will take the job.

Freddy likes to compete. The Detroit Tigers, to me are the best lineup in the Central, no doubt about it. (Garcia) likes to get himself to the next level. He likes to pitch in big games. You want to face good hitters You face the Detroit Tigers.

I like what I see. He was throwing a lot of strikes. We will take a better look when the games start in the minor leagues. It's a first-time outing, and we are going to keep our eyes on him.

We can't control (what Cleveland does). They are playing so well. We just have to worry about winning our own games. You know they are going to win the way they are playing now. But we just have to worry about how we'll play and win as many games as we can.

Two months ago everybody wanted to kill this kid and get him out of town because he was pitching horrible. Jose had always had the best arm on my team. It's a matter of time when he can use that. It's a matter of confidence. This kid won a big game for us and he showed the guys when you have confidence and throw strikes and attack the strike zone, you can win a lot of games.

We don't need superstars. We need guys who worry about the name on the chest more than the name on the back of the uniform. The only bad thing about this was, we won a lot of games by one run or two runs, and that drives me crazy.

No -- I could get some advice from him this year ... Advice isn't going to help. You cannot pick when things go right and things go wrong. You have to look at the law of averages where they were winning games early in the year, too. It's hard to continue to win in that many different ways and that many close games. I'm confident they'll get it together and pull it together.

We never thought we would hit 200 home runs. You have to execute, especially in (playoff) games. You're going to win a lot of games by one run.

I'm not the type of person who counts something I don't have. Do we think about it Yeah, that's part of the game and part of the strategy. We have to make decisions and make rosters. Right now, I try to stay away the most I can about talking about playoff games.

That's the way people should be playing baseball, play hard. I like those kinds of games.

You get to the playoffs you got to win 11 games. In the regular season, you win 99 and go to the wire and almost lose. The way we played all year long it was like a playoff game every day. ... I talked to the guys. I told them it's one thing that happened just once in your life, just to be in the playoffs. Some people play a lot of years in this game and never have this opportunity.

He is the one who is throwing the ball better. That's why, for the next couple of weeks, I can't please players, I have to win games.