510 Quotes by Frank Robinson

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.

If you charge the mound, that's one or two games.

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

We're losing ballgames that we should be winning, ... and pretty soon it will be too late.

Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

We're playing very poorly here. We've deserved to lose. We're not performing the way I feel the team is capable of performing.

If you hit a ball well in this ballpark you can be rewarded. If you don't hit a dynamite ball in this ballpark -- in the big part of this ballpark -- you will not be rewarded. That's just the way this ballpark is. You take a chance when you get out to the bigger part of this ballpark. You take a chance.

We've gone into his area two nights in a row, and he's done this two nights in a row. When we've gone into an area where we feel like we can get him out, we've gotten him out.

A lot of guys said he was off the wall, he's crazy. I found him to be a guy with a lot of energy. He played the game hard. He just wanted to go out and play. Sometimes his emotion got in the way. He would lose control and tear things. I talked to him and reasoned with him. I listened to him. We developed a fondness for each other. I admire him for the way he goes about his work.