That really doesn’t bother me, because that’s how we play. We steal bases and that’s going to happen. I don’t want my players not playing aggressively.

When you’re hurt physically, you can recover. When it is mental, you don’t know when it is going to show up and you don’t know when it is going to stay at home. Mentally, we...

He gives the team a chance to refuel, to get back to playing the way we played early in the season, … Everybody knows how important this kid is for us, for the type of...

When he starts walking people and throwing the ball all over the plate, he gets in trouble. I think [with] this kid, we know he’s got one of the best arms, maybe the best arm,...

When we put this team together, I never believed it would happen so fast. I’ll tell you one thing right now, I will be back next year,

He has potential to be the closer. As long as he stays healthy, then he’ll be good.

He convinced me he was ready to go, … We need this kid. … Especially with the two teams we might play, New York or Anaheim, we need two lefties (in the bullpen).

It is still early but I still have a lot of concerns about his back. We will see what happens but we are going to go out and look for people to replace him.

From the beginning, with Joe, I said that the expectations were so high and when he didn’t play up to those expectations, he suddenly is not a good player. Hopefully, his offense continues to get...

I told them 2005 is over, and we’re going to be a target to everyone in baseball.

We’re not looking for people to fill up the stands. We’re looking for winners.

We’re in Chicago. When you spend almost your whole career here, you know what to expect.

Nobody’s talking about him, but he’s a guy who’s had a good start, too.

People see what he does for us on the field, but what they don’t see is what he does for our team in the dugout, in the clubhouse, in the hotels and on the airplanes....

With the way the offense is hitting now, we’re going to take advantage of any mistake a team makes.

Freddy Garcia is a competitor, and the Detroit Tigers have the best lineup in the Central, no question about it. You know that if you want to beat them, you can’t make mistakes.

Either way we set the rotation, there are a lot of guys who are going to take nine or 10 days off. You have to figure out how to give these guys (fewer) days, but...

It’s something I wear with pride because it’s the first one I ever had. I still wear it. I might wear both my rings now and look like a pimp, a pimp daddy.

It was one lady and six guys sitting next to me, and we were just playing around all game. And (if) they take it the wrong way, that’s fine. I know the last couple of...

They’re the world champions. They know how to play in the playoffs. They have the veterans. We can’t be worrying about facing Manny or stuff like that. We have to play White Sox baseball.

This kid can carry the team for two or three weeks,

If something happened to one of the Venezuelan players, they got hurt, they can’t play anymore, they won’t give one (bleep) about them. But if they don’t play, they will criticize them.

It’s not easy for us to sit there for a couple hours and go through two teams in one day, but I want to do it (Monday) because (today) will be a busy day for...

I don’t believe that in the next round of voting I will be selected for the Hall of Fame, but just being on the ballot makes me proud.

I feel great, we beat those guys,

Every time I hear the national anthem here, I look over at the center-field scoreboard and I can’t wait until those planes fly over it in the World Series, … You will cry, because that’s...

I say this because I want to win it here. It would give me the opportunity to pick what I want to do. I didn’t say I’d leave baseball. I can’t live without baseball.

Vlad is a quiet guy around people he doesn’t know. Besides being his coach, I was his interpreter and I was helping him off the field, and we pretty much hung around a lot when...

The reason is that [if Belliard] get a base hit, I lose the game, … If this guy hits a ground ball, I tie the game and have another chance to win in the ninth...

Today was the best day we’ve had since we started the playoffs, … I think because we are where we want to be.

He’s a fat kid. He doesn’t deny it.

I have to respect the other manager of the other team, and when your job is manager, I let the guys enjoy themselves and celebrate with the winning.

We don’t need superstars. We need guys who worry about the name on the chest more than the name on the back of the uniform. The only bad thing about this was, we won a...

We’ll let people know when we play bad, and I’ll let my players know when they play good. I think my players should go to sleep good today, keep his head up and be ready...

We are going to try and supply more run support for our pitchers. Thome is going to be successful because he’s not going to play first base every day. He’ll be healthy.

In Venezuela, many people have a soft spot for the White Sox. So many Venezuelans have passed through there, … Venezuelans also have always known one of my goals has been to put my country...

I’m the one who makes the decisions. But right now, you ask me who is going to pitch in the ninth or the last inning to save the game, and I’m going to say Jenks.

We waited so many years for this opening day and that flag.

The park wasn’t in good condition to play. To wait that long wasn’t good. It was the right thing to call the game.

It was a tough decision for the umpires, one out away from an official game. But it would have taken too long to get the field in shape. It’s a good thing we scored early.

I think the two games we lost in Kansas City [in the first week] were a wake-up call. All of a sudden, they paid attention and got going.

We haven’t done anything yet. We haven’t earned anything. We don’t deserve to be in the spotlight. Boston, New York, that’s the show. That’s prime time. I don’t blame them [the TV schedulers]. The Yankees...

It’s better early than late. The talk was not a team meeting, it was a talk as a friend. I told the guys I don’t want to have another talk to the end of spring...

Even when Jose was struggling, we kept sending him out there to get him over it, … And it was a long process, but it has paid real well.

Seeing what he has, seeing what he can do and seeing how much we lean on him, that makes you angry. I don’t like it when Marte goes out there and he doesn’t want to...

He’s done a little bit more than I asked for. This kid has adapted to the league, but spring training is spring training. I want to [see him] when the lights come on.

It shows you how good of a pitcher he was. He got in all that trouble, but baseball kept bringing him back.

I think this series should be the most important series we’ve played all year.

We tried to get something done. I think he (Contreras) feels comfortable here and I don’t think things are going to bother him. Jose is a tough man. He knows what he is doing, especially...

His problem is when he walks people,