Bobby Cox Quotes (177 Quotes)

He's a control guy. He just didn't control the ball tonight. His arm, finger, everything is fine. But he did not have good results tonight, at all.

It's an honor getting an award from your peers, it really is.

You can't do that late in the ballgame.

We scored five runs and played a real good game today. Defensively I thought we played great. We scored enough runs to win, that's what hurts.

I like that kid a lot. He's a fighter and he wants the job. Sosa pitched well last year, and we have six guys who can do it, but Davies is certainly in the mix. He might have to go the pen, but we want him to be a starter. He's going to be a major league pitcher for a long time.

The only thing I tell them is, 'Look, don't give the other (expletive) team too much credit. It's a baseball game. Just try to win the game.' We had a lot of things go wrong. But my theory is, you got a game every day.

I've had coaches make out lists all day long, ... Some have two (catchers), some have three.

He played fine out there. He went a long way to make a great play actually.

Cormier has looked good every time out. He's got control of four pitches, and he's got some experience -- he pitched in college and pitched in the Majors. He's a good pickup for us.

He meant everything to us. He was one of our biggest contributors here for 3 12 years, I can honestly say that. Still can play defense, come off the bench and hit the best pitcher in baseball. Makes no difference to him.

He's the real deal. He's 20 years old, and he's got a great idea of hitting both ways. He's catching fine. He looks good back there.

I think Renteria always has been one of the premier defensive players, plus we also talk about his clutch hitting. We were concerned about his back a little and he's had some weight problems sometimes. But the minute he was available, we hopped on it. It took the front office about three days to get Renteria ... but we had to do what it took to get him. He's that good.

It's awfully fun to win the way we've been winning. It's disappointing when we get knocked out. That last day comes too suddenly. We'll be after it again next year. We think we'll put a real good team on the field. We hope to go a lot further.

We made a great comeback off Patterson, who was really on top of his game. It looked like he wasn't going to give up anything. Patterson was really dominant for seven innings.

I doubt he'll play tomorrow. I thought it was his thumb at first. A lot of times, when an infielder dives like that, it bends his thumb back.

At times, he was real good.

We've seen Sheets really good the last couple of years.

We thought it was a tired arm before. He's been throwing the ball really well. We thought we were over that.

He's the same as last year to me. He just has to control that slider a little better. Last year those balls were against the wall, caught. The ball was jumping tonight. There was a little breeze blowing out.

It was the Chipper Jones night. He's been doing it since he's been healthy.

He's got, as they say, electric stuff, I guess. He's got a number of pitches that are all above average. He's a great competitor. He does a lot of things to help himself win games. You know, he's the No. 1 in my book.

Too much Martinez. He's a master out there. He's one of the game's greatest pitchers to come through.

He's got a great sinker, ... The ball moves in, big time. He knows how to pitch. They've got to like him. Maybe they've got a replacement for A.J.

He's got plenty of time to get ready as a relief pitcher.

I think it changed the atmosphere in this city a little bit, ... We've always had good clubs, not always veterans. We've always had young kids but nothing to this extent during my tenure. Some of those kids are from the area. It really caught on. It energized the town, and created a tremendous amount of interest in the team. You know, they were kind of the underdog kids, and people root for that.

I love that kid. I still do. Free agency, that's the nature of the game. He was well liked in this organization.

John is not 100 percent, ... But if he's 95 percent that's good enough. He is feeling good. . . . It's just a matter of at one time locating his fastball and feeling a little bit better.

You got to have some patience with them. No sense in bringing them up here, playing four or five games, sending them right back out. If they're good enough to put on this uniform, to me, they're good enough to play.

He's got great command of his slider, ... We always say you have to command your fastball. But he commands his breaking ball about as good as anybody I've ever seen.

We're not complaining. We're not going to say anything. But Sosa has got to understand too that he's got to be ready to open the season.

He's Renteria not as sore today as he was yesterday. That would be as good as it would get end of the week.

He's got to feel pretty good about himself coming right out of college, pitching in the playoffs and under pressure and everything else. That's a huge step.

They were tough calls, ... I thought a couple of them should have gone our way. They were so close, either way he calls them I think he's going to be right.

He just made a huge mistake to a guy who hits him hard.

The two past years have been probably the most challenging of the last 14. They came through for us. It was a very special year.

You get beat when you walk guys, and we did tonight.

I think everybody in baseball is talking about him.

They scored five runs on two hits. We can't do that many more times. We hit guys, walked 'em we can't keep doing that late in games.

He's a guy when you watch him you go, God, I wish I had that guy. You've got to really work to get him out.

Hudson was completely filthy today. He's right on. If he can carry it right on into the regular season, we're in business. That's about as good as it gets.

She became an institution at the ballpark for many years. The Braves were very fortunate to have known somebody like her.

You look forward to any time Bonds is playing because he's that good.

I don't know what Wilson was thinking, there was nobody near him. He tried to tell me, but I couldn't quite understand what he was saying.

He came through big time, ... He got here just in the nick of time.

He's back in the rotation. He's been a horse here.

He's a good hitter. The one guy we didn't want to face. We could have walked him if we didn't walk Baerga.

He's been inside a hospital room the whole time. He's going to need to do a lot of exercising.

I talked to Leo and I think he's going home and that's a big thing if a guy can do that. I think it's a good situation for him. He had a wonderful 15 years here and we move on.

We pitched very well a four-hitter. We'll take that any time.

He was awesome. Whatever he did, I hope he keeps doing it.