He's still just a winner. He's probably the smartest guy I've ever met in the game.
When you have a guy that plays 162 games every year, it makes that guy two stools down think twice about taking a day off.
The Sox were the best team in baseball and they deserved to win -- I'm happy for them. But whether the Sox won the World Series or not, we won 79 games last year and that's not acceptable.
We think he (Rothschild) is one of the most respected pitching coaches in the game and he has two World Series rings to show for that.
He's a veteran presence, a quality bench player. He can play four spots -- first, third and both corners. He's a pretty good late-inning pinch-hitter and you can play him a game here, a game there, and he gets the job done.
Congratulations, I'm proud of you and really happy for you . . . just don't win any games against us,
He won't be changed, the way he approaches the game and his teammates. He has too much character to let long-term security affect the way he goes about his business. He puts the price of winning above the price of his own bank account.