Brad Ausmus People Quotations

a huge black eye for the city of Chicago. If I was from there, I'd be embarrassed by the way our families were treated. My wife didn't get hit or anything, but people flipped her off and were screaming at her.

People don't understand that pain he has played with. It's not simple pain. It's the kind of pain people associate with an injury.

We're different. We have a healthy Andy Pettitte, which certainly helps. We also don't have Jeff Kent, Carlos Beltran and a healthy Jeff Bagwell. Now our reputation starts and ends with our pitching, whereas last year it was a little different. People thought of Bagwell and Biggio and an offensive juggernaut.

We have to go out and win with what we have. We know Roy and Andy are 1-2 around here, and that's the way it was before Roger got here. We need people to step up and perform, but we're not worried. Roy and Andy are a pretty good pair of pitchers.