Ken Williams Team Quotations

One of the reasons we picked each one of these guys on this team is we wanted a bunch of fighters, ... We wanted guys who could be resilient and had been resilient to criticism or doubts throughout the course of their whole career.

Our ultimate desire ... was to keep this team intact. It may turn out that someone overwhelms us with an offer for Jose.

Our manager is doing his best to win the game and to prepare his team for the playoffs,

Understand that a lot of people, generations, have come and gone and not seen their team win the World Series,

I'm probably the only guy in Chicago who doesn't have the luxury of relishing in the sentimentality of what happened last season. The defeatist attitude that we'll always be Chicago's second team doesn't fly with me.

He took a club predicted by some to finish third or fourth place and rode it to a World Series championship. That's a very commendable thing. I've been a little disappointed in some of the awards. ... But all along Ozzie and I decided the most important thing was a team effort, to be cohesive as a unit, and all individual things were secondary.

Generations of people have not seen us get to this level, ... I have personally carried that weight on my shoulders, to the degree that is not healthy sometimes. People have come and gone and not seen their team in the World Series. I am so happy now for all of them.