Frank Robinson Season Quotations

We started making subtle changes during the course of that (1988) season and got prepared for '89,

I can't do desperation things, because those guys will lose confidence in me. You have to be very careful this early in the season -- what you do and how you do it.

He may come back from this and be able to compete. But if they go in there and operate, he's done for the season. If it does work, we'll lose him for a month or so, and that's about it. Maybe two months at the most, but you would have him for the rest of the season if he holds up, which is another gamble. It's worth the gamble to try this first.

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.

The only way you have success over the course of the season is if you can go through your rotation and get quality starts, at least from four of them, three times in a row.

I don't want him to carry that into the season with a tender arm, and you probably saw some throws yesterday that weren't quality throws. That was an alarm to me to get him out of there and try to get this thing right.

It's important for him mentally, ... and I think it's good for us to see where he is when the season ends.

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.

You know the old saying, 'Don't let a guy hang around if you have a chance to knock him out.' They had a chance knock us out the entire second half of the season and they haven't done it yet. Maybe, we'll bounce back off the ropes, get off the canvas and win this thing.

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

Every Opening Day is special to me. When they don't become special to you, it's time for you to get out of the game. You get butterflies, and can't wait to get started. You look forward to it from the time the season ends until the next Opening Day.

We have more than a week left before the season starts, and there is plenty of time for decisions like that to be made.