Terry Francona Quotes on Health (4 Quotes)

We're going to try to make up some things to test his knee a little bit. He went from wanting to be traded to he's going to start the day to he's ready to start. That's probably not going to happen. We planned some things out. His health is very important. We'll do it how we think is correct.

Curt was good and got stronger as the game went on. He's the guy that we wanted out there on Opening Day and it's really nice to see him out there and healthy.

I miss him already. He's a good friend of mine. We really care a lot about him getting healthy. Nip will do a great job professionally.

On a tough year in 2005, he hit .280. On a good year, he may be up there with the league leaders in batting average and things like that. Depending on the health of our lineup, it looks to me like he'll be a real successful No. 2 hitter for us. Again, we'll see how those things play out. But I think he'll be really good.