Frank Robinson Quotes
"No, I don't think my presence will cause an increase in black attendance at Cleveland."
- Frank Robinson
(Related: Cause, Will)
"No. 1, these guys out here on this field. They keep my energy level up. They try hard, they don't complain about things - and I'd just like to be with them when things are good, and hopefully we can win a pennant together."
- Frank Robinson
(Related: Energy)
"People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card."
- Frank Robinson
(Related: Manager, People, Fool)
"You have to have a short memory as a closer."
- Frank Robinson
(Related: Memory)
"Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me out. They say you can't hit if you're on your back, but I didn't hit on my back. I got up."
- Frank Robinson
"But I'm not going to walk Barry Bonds, like some teams do, in the first inning with nobody on."
- Frank Robinson
(Related: First)
"The way we're going... if I called up another pitcher, he'd just hang up the phone on me."
- Frank Robinson
"It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager."
- Frank Robinson
(Related: Manager, First)
"The fan is the one who suffers. He cheers a guy to a .350 season then watches that player sign with another team. When you destroy fan loyalties, you destroy everything."
- Frank Robinson
"If he can hit, he can hit. I don't care if he came from Class Z league."
- Frank Robinson
(Related: Care, Class)
"I know a lot of people on the field - players, coaches, managers - are glad that I'm gone."
- Frank Robinson
(Related: People, Coaches, Managers)
"I just didn't have anything to say, so I said nothing."
- Frank Robinson
(Related: Nothing)
"I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out."
- Frank Robinson
(Related: Confidence, Respect)
"Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades."
- Frank Robinson
(Related: Baseball)
"At least when it's in French, I won't know what the heck they're saying."
- Frank Robinson
(Related: Saying)
"All in all, I wouldn't call it a bad outing. It was a short outing."
- Frank Robinson
"If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place."
- Frank Robinson
(Related: First)
"I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be."
- Frank Robinson