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If this is the best job in baseball, then why do you guys get gray hair and fat so quickly?

Prior to his first season as manager, the 40-year-old reacting to a couple of veteran managers who'd stated that managing was the best job in baseball

December, 2003
Oswaldo José "Ozzie" Guillen
Chicago White Sox
Manager

Seriously, I'm gonna need a glove.

After being advised that he would start the day's ballgame at 3B for the first time in his major league career due to a player injury, and following up his first reply that he'd need a glove in order to do so, to the laughter of his teammates at the breakfast table

April 27, 2005

Christopher Jon "Chris" Widger
Chicago White Sox
Catcher

Hitting in a game is no different than hitting in a home run contest. It pisses me off to say Barry Bonds is the greatest hitter. He's playing in a wussy era. The game is soft. You never get thrown at today. Last thing a hitter has to worry about today is getting hit. The first thing Hank Aaron had to worry about is: Am I going to survive this at-bat because I'm black.

January 11, 2006
Richard Michael "Rich" Gossage
Chicago White Sox
Relief Pitcher
HOF 2008; a.k.a. "Goose"

A lot of times my wife asks me that question. She always says [she gets] more nervous than [me] on the mound. I tell her when you drive a car and you're the driver, you know what to do, [like when] you go 100 m.p.h. in Venezuela. People in the passenger seat can be scared, but the guy who is driving the car is not scared. It's the same on the mound. I have confidence in my pitches. If I throw good pitches, they will not hit the ball.

Answering in English when asked after a game if he was nervous while pitching in the 8th inning with his team in a 4-1 lead and a man on first with two outs, the No. 3 hitter at the plate, and a pitch count of 120

July 20, 2006
Carlos Zambrano
Chicago Cubs
Pitcher

The way we were perceived the entire year, all until the last out (in the World Series) really...the players didn't get many accolades from the national scene. The way I figured it, before me, they certainly should get (recognition). So if they are not getting it, I don't want it. We are all in this together.

On the 2005 Executive of the Year award that eluded the intrepid GM of the World Champion team

Kenneth Royal "Kenny" Williams
Chicago White Sox
General Manager

It's a horse-(bleep) job. If you win, you get paid two million dollars. If you lose, you get fired.

On managing a major league baseball team

Oswaldo José "Ozzie" Guillen
Chicago White Sox
Manager

When I see Wally Joyner, Ken Caminiti and Jose Canseco talk about it, they make me puke. They're full of (bleep). You know why? Whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. I see these former players talking (bleep) about the game, and it's not right.

On former baseball players talking about steroids

Oswaldo José "Ozzie" Guillen
Chicago White Sox
Manager

They think they know baseball, but they don't know (bleep). If people on the radio were so smart, they'd be in the (bleep) dugout with me. Every time the media second-guesses you, it's after something happens, not before.

On sports radio

Oswaldo José "Ozzie" Guillen
Chicago White Sox
Manager

It's hard to put your finger on it. You have to have a dullness of mind and spirit to play here. I went through pyschoanalysis and that helped me deal with my Cubness.

Reflecting back on his years with the Chicago Cubs

James Patrick "Jim" Brosnan
Chicago Cubs
Pitcher

The only bad thing about being released by the Cubs is that they made me keep my season tickets.

Kenneth John "Ken" Reitz
Chicago Cubs
3B

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