Ron Gardenhire Ask Quotations

He still likes baseball. He'll always ask me, 'Who's pitching today?' He always tells me the game goes in cycles -- he's right.

Means something to me, but you ought to ask some of those people out there,

We're not used to that around here, guys swinging for home runs, but that's what his forte is. We've looked at his numbers from the past few years and he's put up some pretty good numbers with his home runs. That's what he does. He's going to do that -- we hope -- a lot, and that's what we ask of him, is to swing.

Whether the general manager believes that he can help me out of my pen, I haven't asked yet. That was impressive to me to watch him come right at the hitters with a nice angle to the ball.

Some of them do. I pretty much know the ones that do. I pretty much know the ones that don't. But you can go ask them.

I can't answer that question. You'll have to ask them. ... I know the ones who care and I think I know the ones who don't.