Quotes by Don Cooper

“Hes had some lumps, and recent health issues, but the guy can pitch, and if we can hang on, the postseason is a place where he can perform.”

“We havent utilized it yet, because we just dont have the personnel right now. We play our six most talented people. Most of the elite teams are using them, because it gives a smaller player who has good defensive skills an opportunity to play the back row more often than just three rotations.”

“Once we clinched the division, we got really hot,”

“I dont look at it as AL vs. NL. I look it as the team thats opposing us.”

“Once we clinched the division, we got really hot.”

“My job is basically to coach the people who are there. Everyone in baseball knows, though, that Vazquez is a high-quality pitcher.”

“It would be a lot better for the staff and our coaches to know that he is more available. There were times last year when we didnt want to use him, and certainly there were times where he was ready and we didnt use him. We need him ready to go.”

“The attention is nice and flattering, but with all that stuff that was going on last year, I had no intentions to go anywhere. My wish and my hopes for the rest of my career is to be a coach for the White Sox.”

“To me, whats riding on this now is if we go out there and do our thing - which weve already proven to ourselves we can - weve got a chance to be considered a great team. Everybody can do it once. You do it twice and people start raising their eyebrows.”

“Mac needs to come into spring ready to get a lot of innings. Im not going to say hes our long guy or our seventh-inning guy or a spot starter, but he is a reliever right now until further notice.”