Frank Robinson Finish Quotations

I'd certainly prefer to finish fourth than finish fifth. There's a stigma to that: last. 'You finished last, last year.' And after the start we had, ... that just kind of throws cold water completely on the whole season right there.

He wasn't real sharp today. When he got ahead of hitters, he couldn't finish them off. There were a lot of pitches in the strike zone.

I think it's very important to everybody to try to finish over .500,

We had the ballgames. They were our ballgames to win, and we didn't finish them off.

We had the ballgames, ... They were our ballgames to win, and we didn't finish them off.

Sooner or later, Zimmerman's going to start three or four ballgames in a row, and Short may start two or three, Watson one or two, ... But basically, you're going to see the same guys that have been here finish out the season.

They see the finish line, but they don't want this season to slip away and finish under .500. They have pride, and they want to finish as well as they can. There's a lot of nicks and ailments here, but they are still going out there and giving me the effort.

They see the finish line and they don't want the season to slip away. They want to finish above .500. They have pride.

It was a good comeback. Stirring. We just couldn't finish it off.

But if you finish over .500, you can say, 'We can go from here. If we win 'x' number of games more than we won last year, we can win this thing.'