He personifies what we've been talking about, with determination, guts, the will to win and the tough part. When you look at Andy or talk to him, he's got such a happy face and such a happy demeanor it belies how tough he is.
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I don't think it would be prudent on our part to wait to see what's going to happen. You try to make sure if we started tomorrow if Rocket wasn't here, you'd feel like you'd have a good team.Phil Garner
He might be the best all-around player in baseball today. If we're going to put our money somewhere ...
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I don't know what was different, ... But we swung the bats from the outset of the game. Maybe that was the difference. We went out with a more aggressive approach. We seem to go at him that way. In the past, he's made good pitches on us early in the count, he's gotten ahead and put us away.
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And a lot of people didn't realize he was the first to break the 1 million barrier in salary with Nolan (in the previous contract), ... As far as the players were concerned, we thought he was fantastic. He was tough but he was always fair and this was a first-class organization when he was here.
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When you start pitching away from contact, that's when you get in a lot of trouble. That's when your pitch counts get way up and you can't get through four innings.
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I think Houston and baseball fans around the country really enjoy watching the legend pitch now, perhaps the greatest pitcher of all time. If there's anything that comes after this, that's up to Roger.
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