Ken Kendrick Quotations

We're extremely pleased to have Stephen be a Diamondback. He's an engaging young man and a player we'll hopefully see in the major leagues in the near future.

We're extremely pleased to have Stephen be a Diamondback, ... He's an engaging young man and a player we'll hopefully see in the major leagues in the near future.

We're a baseball town. We've become a baseball town.

Of course it's a concern. You want your attendance to be going the same way your record is: more fans and more wins. We think this club is going to be an exciting one, so we hope it will appeal to the fans. We sure do want to do everything we can to encourage them to come out. Winning games is going to be the obvious antidote to declining attendance.

If we can't make a deal that benefits us for 2005, then Randy will pitch for us next year.

I don't collect the stuff. I collect baseball cards. But I get calls all the time . . . It's a way to make a charitable donation in an unusual way.

But for the most part, we have concluded when we looked at this profile that we needed to recognize that we are not baseball guys. We are baseball fans and we have a passion for the game. I've been one in my life that has wanted to become associated with people who were experts and then were given the responsibility and authority to act on their expertise. For the most part, that's what we're going to do.

He understands our commitment to bringing a championship team back to our fans and we are confident that he has the skills and abilities to guide us there.

Our focus is to win the division. We think we have the talent where that could happen.

Just because Randy wants something doesn't mean it's going to happen. We want to respect his interests, but our greater responsibility is not to him but to our team.

We are thrilled to have Josh join our staff. He has a tremendous amount of knowledge, energy and experience, and is obviously prepared for this opportunity. He understands our commitment to bringing a championship team back to our fans and we are confident that he has the skills and abilities to guide us there.

We are thrilled to have Josh join our staff,

We've made substantial progress in having solid finances, ... Now we need to focus on improving the team.

We couldn't be happier about it. Tony has just been phenomenal in all aspects.

Randy is obviously an icon for this city. We'd love to have Randy be with us and finish his career with us. I think he knows that.

Our concept, just like last year, was we would hold some money back and hope that there would come a time at midseason where a player might be available. And we'd be in a position where another player would make a difference and we'd have the money to spend if we saw a player we wanted.

As owners of this great franchise, we understand our responsibility of giving back to the community, be it here locally, or any place in need throughout this nation, ... We are proud of the leadership that our players demonstrated with their donation, and are honored to match that generous amount. We take comfort in knowing that all of our efforts from this week, which combined fans, players, and front office, will have a positive impact on such a devastating situation.

Each of us had our own themes. Mine was focused around talking to them about the importance of our fans and what the fans mean to the club and what we need to do to make sure that the fans are well-cared for.

The new Diamondbacks are representative ... of the type of guys we want to go forward with,

I'm a big believer that the manager ought to have his own people, because in the end, everybody looks to him. Whether success comes or doesn't come, it will be his responsibility, and that's why I feel he deserves to have the people he wants.

I know theres the attitude that these guys have been around a long time and eventually theyll perform the way they previously performed, but that hasnt happened with some of these guys, and when thats the case, you ought to be more willing to take risks and make changes.

If there's any one thing that I could say, it's play with enthusiasm. We have guys that we know will do that. And I think fans really appreciate that. They like the effort even if success isn't always there.

I can't tell you how fortunate we are to have this guy on our club, and how fortunate the entire state is, really. He is such an ambassador for the game.