Frank Robinson Team Quotations

But I'm not going to walk Barry Bonds, like some teams do, in the first inning with nobody on.

The fan is the one who suffers. He cheers a guy to a .350 season then watches that player sign with another team. When you destroy fan loyalties, you destroy everything.

We're playing very poorly here. We've deserved to lose. We're not performing the way I feel the team is capable of performing.

My pick would be Willis, because this team is not always running on all gears, ... St. Louis was like a machine this year. You don't penalize Carpenter for that. But to me, it's Willis. If nothing else, we couldn't beat him.

We are the only team to start the season with 21 losses, so we are not going to be off the hook,

We haven't put everything together for any length of time. Maybe when the bell rings and we start for real, we can put it together. A lot of these guys haven't played together. It's going to take a while for the chemistry to come together, but this team has the ability to do that, to come together as a team. But, again, that comes from winning and enjoying the game.

We need to start performing the way this team is capable of and what we expect - and that's pitching, defense and hitting. Until we do that, we're going to get beat.

You have to give the Korean team some credit. If you make a mistake they'll put the bat on the ball.

You feel especially good inside when the kids go out there and do a job for you. This team is probably going to have a different face on it by the time we see it next year opening day.

This is another step, and a very important step, in ownership being named. It was just a matter of when this thing was going to get done. That's the key right there. ... You want to get ownership named, so you can get the new ballpark, so you can feel what I call 'whole' as a team and as a franchise.

There's a lot of camaraderie on this ball club already. In spring training it's been a good clubhouse. Believing in themselves and playing with excitement, I think that all comes from winning. I think this team has that ability to do that, to come together as a team.

They're a talented enough team to play in the playoffs. They look like they're at the top of their game right now.

It seems like every team has a guy that is fortunate that the team scores for (him), and there's that hard-luck guy they don't score for.

It seems like every staff has a guy that a team scores runs for, and then there's this hard-luck guy that they don't score runs for. This may be his year to get the run support.

It might not last until we get to San Diego. But it certainly should show these guys what they're capable of doing if each individual would go up there and do what he's capable of doing, and think about it being a team effort.

That's something we haven't done. It's just a nice feeling to be the team that's out front.

I just can't figure this team out. I really can't. The more a pitcher struggles, or the higher the ERA is, the worse we do.

I'm looking forward to when it counts to see how this team reacts. I think we'll handle it very well.

It has to be cultivated. Just because you are playing a team that's down the road that doesn't mean it's a rivalry. Both teams have to be productive and winning over years and time. You have to create the fan interest and the media interest in it and that makes it a rivalry.

The baselines belongs to the runner, and whenever I was running the bases, I always slid hard. I wanted infielders to have that instant's hesitation about coming across the bag at second or about standing in there awaiting a throw to make a tag. There are only twenty-seven outs in a ballgame, and it was my job to save one for my team every time I possibly could.

He's never complained about the hardships this team has gone through. He signed a long-term contract because he wanted to be here.

The frustration starts when we played like we played last night and then we come out and play like we did today. I don't know what it is. I just can't figure this team out.