Dusty Baker Quotes on Chance (7 Quotes)

Guys get a chance to get more rest. You play most of your games on the road at night. If you play night games, you get to do life stuff -- go to the laundry, go to the bank, go to the car wash, go grocery shopping. Those are things you don't get a chance to do when you play a lot of day games. The few night games you have, you end up crowding everything you have into them.

I've got a year and some chance on my contract with the Cubs. I've never not honored a contract I my entire life.

If we can get them going in the middle of the lineup and get Juan Pierre on base, we've got a chance to have a lot of stuff happening.

With more night games at home, You get to do 'life stuff,' like go to the laundry, go to the bank, go to the car wash, go shopping, ... Things you don't get a chance to do when you're playing day games. You're always conscious here of oversleeping because you can wake up in a panic, especially if it's cloudy and dark outside, and you're like, 'Oh, man.' Or if it gets sunny real early, you're jumping out of bed at 6 o'clock.

Guys get a chance to get more rest, ... Guys get a chance to do life stuff Go do laundry, go to the car wash, go to the bank, shopping. Regular stuff you don't get a chance to do, stuff that's closed when you get to the park, stuff that's closed when you leave the park.

These guys are getting a chance to play that they wouldn't ordinarily have. If nothing else, they're impressing us and everybody else who has seen them. In order to have a good team, in order to have a good organization, you have to be deep in certain positions.

This is a performance business. The better you perform, the more chances you'll get. He's looking for another chance. When Todd Walker was out last year, he had plenty of opportunities to play.