Jose Guillen Quotations

Lots of times, you really need guys for motivation, guys trying to help your teammates. Lots of times, you see a lot of guys, they don't really care.

Right now I just need to get my timing.

If we don't win this game, ... we're done.

I have found a real home here. After the things I have been through in other places, I take it to my heart. I still owe something to these fans. This didn't end the way we wanted.

I don't know what to do. That's something I have to work on. We'll see when that time comes. It's going to be interesting to see.

I'm a grown man, ... I take full responsibility for what I did. It was a ball. I don't like it. I let my anger come out. I did whatever I needed to do. If nobody likes it, they could come and talk to me and we can talk about it like a man.

If I play the last 10 days of spring, that's enough for me. I am in great shape. I am doing all the activities, throwing and all that stuff. If you can hit, you can hit.

If we lost that game, it was going to be a different atmosphere here tomorrow. I don't know where we were going to go from there.

We're poor people who live here and we don't know where to go. The situation is tough. We'd like to know specifically what they're going to do and not leave us stranded on the street.

He's a competitor. He is going to give you what he has. He's always going to battle. Trust me, he's going to step it up for his team. That's what he did when I was there in Oakland.

He can say whatever he wants. We'll see what happens Wednesday.

Guys, you know the situation right there. Why rush and try to throw the guy out? Maybe it's raining, I throw the ball over the catcher or whatever. It's not necessary.

Hanging slider right in the middle. What do you expect me to do in that situation?

I was looking for a good pitch to hit. He just made some good pitches. You've got to tip your hat to him. He pitched a great game and they beat us again.

I think a lot of people have to be happy with that. I am way ahead of my program..

I will face him again, and he will not be afraid to pitch inside. And I'm going to make sure I play every one of those games that he's on, too.

I think enough is enough. We used to be friends, but that relationship is over.

I will take care of it. I want him to keep pitching inside. Now I want him more than ever.

It doesn't matter who we play or where we play anymore. We just have to play better than we've been playing.

That was a great moment right there, ... I felt like I motivated my teammates.

You know, if we lose, ... none of this would be as fun.

When it's coming to be in a clutch situation, I got a great feeling Jose Guillen is going to come up in a great moment at a great time, ... There's still a lot of games left. I'm going to do whatever I can do to help this team win, to help us get to the playoffs. I'm a big part of this team, and it's time for me to show that.

We have a happy team. We had a great group of guys last year. There was a great chemistry in that clubhouse, and we don't want any distractions.

We'd love to have Sosa. He's one of the greatest players in baseball. But that's not up to me.

There comes a time -- and this is the time, as far as I'm concerned -- that ... it's time to say, 'Hey, guys, that's it. Take the rest of the year off

Fifteen hundred? ... I don't know how many fifteen hundreds I've given away. It would be much better just to be fined and not to get a suspension.

We all stink. We're just looking like Little League players.

We just need to be smart enough to know which players to pitch around. Frank is the manager, and he needs to step up and make those moves.

There's no player here who can tell me they don't go through a bad habit during BP and take that to the game and have to go to the cages and fix that stuff. That happens to everybody.

The way I've been swinging the bat the last week-and-a-half, ... I'm not producing offensively the way I'm capable of doing.

I've battled so many injuries this year. Right now, you look at the situation -- where we are in the standings -- why keep risking my body? The best thing for me right now is rest. Let these other guys play. I don't think I have anything to prove to anyone.

You've got to say thank you to the bullpen.

This is a pitchers' ballpark. Everybody knows that here. It's not in my mind anymore. I'm just here to play baseball -- that's what I'm going to do. Some of these guys are worried about it. That's not by business.

This is a day that everybody is looking to be together, meeting your new teammates, I think it's pretty good. Spring training, your first day, this is the day that everybody has been waiting for. Just putting the group together, and just move forward from there. I'm happy to know that there are good players around.

They told me I hopefully would start swinging a bat in the first week of spring training, but I'm not in a rush. That was a really serious injury. It was pretty much a reconstructed shoulder. It's going to take me a while to heal and get that shoulder strong. I'm going to take everything step by step, and when it's ready, it's ready. If I have to miss, you know, the first month, the first three weeks, I'm going to miss it.

A lot of people in baseball are trying to figure out how we can win. It's kind of tough. It drives people crazy. ... I don't know how we are still there. I think we should be in last place.

A lot of these umpires, they think that fans come to the stadium to see them. It's not right. Right now it looks like they have full power in baseball. They can do whatever they want and they get away with it.

This is the stuff that's really hurting me. I'm so emotional and so sensitive about all this stuff because of my past. It's been so great this year. I've been coming so far to be where I am and who I am and the reputation I've been getting this year, for somebody to start ruining this, it hurts.

This is what I wanted. I didn't want all that music. . . . I don't have any problem with Frank. I want everybody to know that.

I took one swing, and I feel like I pulled a muscle.

I told you that I would be ready. There's still concern on my part, but the doctor put a smile on my face today. He brought some good news. He thinks I'll be ready by Opening Day.

It's pretty much none of my business. That's up to the people upstairs and Soriano.

It's pretty sore, man. I got lucky it didn't get my wrist.

It's pretty sore. I got lucky, It didn't hit my wrist. But I'll be fine. ... I know what I need to do.

That's part of the game. You just have to get used to it.

It's not even close to the team we had in the first half.

Everyone knows how Frank is. He doesn't ask for much.

Talk to Frank. I cannot comment on it.

It's a month left in the season, and I still remember what happened last year, and here we go again. Because I know it's a lot of people that have been waiting for me to go off again. I know that. And you know what? To be ruining what I've come so far this year, trying to clean my image, for somebody to write negative stuff that's not true, it's really hurting my career.

It's crazy. A lot of weird stuff has been happening. But there's nothing you can do about it. You just keep playing hard, and hopefully you're going to get better one of these days.

I've had so many problems with my arm. I have to really protect that whole arm because I don't want anything to go wrong early in the season.

It was a ball. I don't like it, I let my anger come out, I did whatever I need to do.

I'm going to take it step-by-step. I'm not going to rush anything. This was a serious injury. It's going to take some time to heal and get the shoulder 100 percent.

I'm not going to hurt any of my teammates and do something stupid.

I'm pretty sure if we lost, the season was done.

I'm the one that is going to make the decision on how I feel.

If you guys want to talk about Pedro -- no, What will happen, will happen.

I know how to take care of it, don't worry. I'm going to make sure I play in all the games he's in. ... I want him to throw inside. Now I want him more than ever.

I just hope they can fix the situation. That's up to the people upstairs and Soriano. I think everybody's a grown-up man here. I just hope for the best for the team and those guys, and that they can fix the situation. But that's pretty much not my business.

Hey, everybody knows how Frank is. He doesn't ask you for much. He wants us to play hard, run the bases hard. If you don't do that, you know you are going to have a problem with him. I'm going to support every decision Frank makes on field. If Soriano has a problem with it, he has to go to him.

He told me that he's not an outfielder.

If I get hit again, it's going to get real ugly if he's pitching.

I don't think there's anything else I can do. I have to get it fixed.

I don't want to comment until everything is done.

I don't want to hear from them, but I know I will. They are not going to let me get away with it. I take full responsibility for what happened. I'm a man, and if anybody has a problem, they can come talk to me. I did it. I did it on my own. A lot of players have done it in the past. I did not think the pitch was a strike. Should I have behaved in a different way? Yes.

He's never been afraid to pitch inside, but I think enough is enough, and I've had enough. I've been hit so many times by him. We used to be friends, but our relationship, I think, is over.

I don't like it, I let my anger come out, I did whatever I need to do.

He asked me how I was feeling. I told him, 'Frank, I'm ready to play.'?