Kenny Williams Quotes (35 Quotes)

I'm going to tell you this. As long as I don't hear another word about this organization or the members of this organization, I won't have another thought about this. And we'll move on.

I didn't want to play junior college football. I just wanted to go home and focus on basketball. I knew that basketball would be my route to college.

People who think they have all of the answers in this game, those are the people I try to stay away as far away from as I can, ... If you ever think you know it all, it's probably time to go and do something else.

I'm a very competitive, physical player. I think football helped me with that. I'm not afraid to hit the floor. Coaches like to see tough, physical players. A lot of players aren't like that. You throw a few elbows at a player on a rebound, and they might back off a little bit.

I was at home when he was plugging 14-, 16-hour days, when he really didn't want to be there. He couldn't watch me play baseball, ... I see the work he put into turning them around. He's made a couple key moves that have made me very proud.

GM Kenny Williams tipped his cap to the Twins on their latest division title. The only thing we've beaten them in the last few years, ... is the game of talking.

He's an idiot. He's selfish. That's why we don't miss him. And we've held it in for far too long. And if you go out there and look long and hard enough, you'll find particulars. But I've got something to say directly to him. And I'm holding back as much as I can because, unlike him, I'll say it man-to-man, face-to-face.

It's kind of a floating number, but we want to check in around 90 million.

I haven't taken it seriously. Whatever his explanations are as to what he said, he's got to clean up his own house.

The day I got hired, I made the statement then that without a World Series title coming to Chicago on the South side, it'll be considered a failed effort. We're at stage one, but unless we finish it out, personally, it will only mean a job unfinished and an opportunity lost.

We don't miss his attitude. We don't miss the whining. ... Good riddance.

You look around at our team and it's tough to find a guy who hasn't been doubted or criticized in some way. They all have that as a common denominator, and it becomes part of your personality as a team.

Hey, I've got a guy, ... I know I'm at the budget, but I've got a guy who will fit into the two hole and play second base and it will really round out the club. And, oh, by the way, I haven't seen this guy play live. But I've got a bunch of video. I'm dizzy from breaking it down over the past two weeks.

It was in spring training that you noticed a bunch of them hanging around together, going out to dinner,

There's no doubt we've had some games where we've been more lucky than good, ... So what

We were calling ourselves Dog Daze for a while. We didn't really like that. Somehow Whiskey Dog came up, and it seemed to fit. It kind of goes along with our music.

Jose seems to understand the great opportunity he's been given here. And the bottom line is, I want to make sure I have the pitching to support all of the offense we've added. That remains the top priority.

We had a whole bunch of starts the last few years and we underachieved,

There are so many formulas, equations and theories in this game right now, ... I'm sorry, but I'm getting confused. We had to go back in time and come up with some things that have always been timeless in this game.

Half of our bullpen drives pickup trucks, ... They go hunting. They don't go to South Beach on their off days.

It's the national epicenter and this is a sincere honor. I don't think it should be taken lightly. For me, it's the thrill of a lifetime to be on this stage with the President and the White Sox.

I looked at all of that going into the season and I thought to myself, 'I must have really done a bad job this winter,'

His type of game is not something that's going to come easily. A lot of speed guys have trouble learning skills well enough to be hitting first in the major leagues.

Jerry has done everything over the course of 16 years to protect that man, made accommodations for him, concessions for him. He loaned him money, at times, when he needed money. If he was any kind of a man, he would quit talking about things in the paper

Judging from some of the faces I saw last night and early this morning, be careful what you ask for. You might not want the regulars in there.

The most important thing he taught me was being a student-athlete. He puts your family and your grades first. Then basketball.

I think he needed the vacation. It's been a long winter for him.

Give me a team of overachievers and let's see what happens.

We talked, he called. And from what I understand, all the things he's been saying since December have been not written as said. He says that he was surprised that what he said has been written bad and the way he has said it. He thinks it's a Chicago writers' problem with him.

He's not going to do that, and we don't miss him, by the way. And if you go out there and ask any one of my players or staff members, we don't miss him. We don't miss the attitude we don't miss the whining. We don't miss it. Good riddance. See you later.

He started out slow this spring, but I had to remind everybody that he was playing at 3 o'clock in the morning (Japan time),

For me, it's dependent upon the guy's history. For a pitcher, always. Always for a pitcher. I don't take chances too much with guys who have physical issues, particularly in the shoulder area. I don't like to touch guys with shoulder problems.

I just don't think you can stand pat, history has shown that. Last year was great and we enjoyed it. But it has no bearing on 2006. You have to go out and prove yourself all over again. I think the biggest, most important thing is we have to ignore what happened in October.

I didn't want to go through a big recruiting process again. I just wanted to sign and get it over with. I knew I wanted to play in a big conference like the Big 12, and I liked my visit up there.

Just because we've come off a world championship, we have work to do as a team and as an organization, and as individuals. Ozzie is still growing into the position and the responsibility of the position as well as I am. We'll just continue to try to evolve in a way that is a first-class and respectable way. We not only want to try to win, we want to try to win in a first-class manner and be known as a first-class organization. Clearly, we have a little bit of work to do, but we will keep at it.