Terry Francona quote: "It's hard to compare them. When you don't locate, major league hitters find a way to make you pay for it. I thought he misfired a few times, especially early. That really hurt."

It's hard to be a clubhouse guy without being a great guy. I mean, the nature of the job is, you...
TERRY FRANCONA

I think the outside world can learn a lot about how to act by watching a major league clubhouse. I d...
TERRY FRANCONA

You get to the ninth inning and your stomach is clear up to here. But it's not because of your job. ...
TERRY FRANCONA

That?s the safest way to go. We don?t want to lose him. He?s too important.
TERRY FRANCONA

What bothered me is that I just got a memo from the (American) League stating that when (umpires) me...
TERRY FRANCONA

My last year in Montreal -- my last Spring [Training] -- I got released,
TERRY FRANCONA

Once he got the lead, you could see him reaching for a little bit extra. He was terrific. ... He enj...
TERRY FRANCONA

I actually went out there this morning because they told me not to. Somebody worked their ass off to...
TERRY FRANCONA

Anytime you give extra outs, extra opportunities, it is not good. When things don't happen always pe...
TERRY FRANCONA

Wake went out and just pitched his rear end off.
TERRY FRANCONA

He said about the fourth inning, all the sudden it clicked with his fastball command. I'll bet havin...
TERRY FRANCONA

Regardless of how much (the suspension) bothered him or how he felt about things, he really did a go...
TERRY FRANCONA

Being able to walk in [team offices] in the winter and even say hello is important. I don't believe ...
TERRY FRANCONA

Curt was good and got stronger as the game went on. He's the guy that we wanted out there on Opening...
TERRY FRANCONA

I think it can be two-fold. Some of it is that he's been used a lot this week. He's got 13, 14 big-l...
TERRY FRANCONA

Once you give up five, ... if they peck away and get one here and get one there, it makes it tougher...
TERRY FRANCONA

I'm not too pleased about it. Derek got hit with a split (finger fastball). We knew it, they knew. T...
TERRY FRANCONA

It's always going to be command. Again, having the extra velocity gives you a little bit more room f...
TERRY FRANCONA

Sunday might be the most important game of the year. It doesn't matter. It really doesn't matter. I ...
TERRY FRANCONA

This was one of those things where Theo thought to himself that if we found ourselves in a 12-inning...
TERRY FRANCONA

It's hard to explain if you haven't been through it, but even when we were down, we just had the typ...
TERRY FRANCONA

The excitement level will be off the charts. You'll see a lot of guys running to the ballpark. I mig...
TERRY FRANCONA

I'll go this week at some point, I'll get a physical. I just need to take care of myself. I wouldn't...
TERRY FRANCONA

We won 95 games in a season where things didn't go right, ... I will not sit here and apologize for ...
TERRY FRANCONA

We wanted to get him further in the game.
TERRY FRANCONA

He was already at the point of the game where we're going to go to the bullpen if anything happens. ...
TERRY FRANCONA

and I'd love you to police yourselves. But if I have to step in, I will.
TERRY FRANCONA

That was a long time ago. It's a different team. I've said so many times that last year doesn't matt...
TERRY FRANCONA

I know the run he's been on. Today we found out why.
TERRY FRANCONA

I don't think we did. I hope they do.
TERRY FRANCONA

We asked a lot, physically, of people [in 2004] that I think may have hurt us this year. I don't thi...
TERRY FRANCONA

The idea of the importance of winning today is there; it's been there,
TERRY FRANCONA

We won. I'm sure they'd rather play at home, ... In the end it doesn't matter. You need to win where...
TERRY FRANCONA

The prognosis is very good. I think four months is when he's allowed to start throwing, give or take...
TERRY FRANCONA

There wasn't a whole lot that was easy (this season),
TERRY FRANCONA

We'll strive to be better than Chicago.
TERRY FRANCONA

Oh yeah, that's huge. That was something we really wanted to stay away from.
TERRY FRANCONA

There was a lot of extraordinary efforts tonight by a lot of people. We got ourselves in a position ...
TERRY FRANCONA

I wouldn't trade it for the world. Trying to be a little bit better than somebody else at what you l...
TERRY FRANCONA

The stage isn't too big.
TERRY FRANCONA

How does dead-even feel with two to go? Dead even.
TERRY FRANCONA

I don't want to get into a ton of hitting mechanics. But I think he's gotten a little spread out [wi...
TERRY FRANCONA

I heard him let out a little yelp. I had a good idea what happened. Either that or Tom Brady had thr...
TERRY FRANCONA

He's an awesome guy. He's too good a kid and one of the best players in the league. All of the thing...
TERRY FRANCONA

He's very proud. When they put that shift on, sometimes he loses hits. He's been robbed a few times ...
TERRY FRANCONA

I believe in these guys, and I believe if you stay the course you get paid dividends. I believe it's...
TERRY FRANCONA

I think he was frustrated, but he understood. He wants to get deep into the game.
TERRY FRANCONA

Good at-bats. It's nice. First pitch, (he hits a) line drive. He ran the bases really well.
TERRY FRANCONA

From his point of view, once we got Wily Mo, this probably was not the best place to be.
TERRY FRANCONA

If we start getting offense from him, we have a good player. And, again, he's hitting ninth so he do...
TERRY FRANCONA

I think it's rare where any team goes through a stretch where you have everyone available, everybody...
TERRY FRANCONA

Actually I wasn't too pleased about it. Derek got hit with a (split-finger fastball). We knew it, th...
TERRY FRANCONA

I wasn't too pleased about it. Derek got hit with a split. We knew it, they knew it. It just happene...
TERRY FRANCONA

Me sitting here and naming a Game 5 starter would be a little presumptuous.
TERRY FRANCONA

It's an awesome concept. I wish there was a perfect way to do it. You're going to see a lot of gener...
TERRY FRANCONA

I like information. I love when smart people make me think of something in a new way.
TERRY FRANCONA

He got himself in a predicament where he felt threatened and went on the offensive, but he paid the ...
TERRY FRANCONA

[Damon] said he was climbing the walls. He said he feels a little better,
TERRY FRANCONA

I'm really hoping that Johnny Damon shows up and is really healthy,
TERRY FRANCONA

They were actually going to hit on the field, but now they'll go down and hit in the cage, ... [Gene...
TERRY FRANCONA

I do feel bad. I think it could have meant a lot to him. He's very team-oriented. I know he's very p...
TERRY FRANCONA

[Boston scored only eight runs in the three games against the A's and a total of 24 runs in their la...
TERRY FRANCONA

I think he's handled the situation well. When you're a Rule 5 guy, it's almost to the veteran player...
TERRY FRANCONA

It's the case with just about every pitcher who gives up hits, you know when you don't locate, major...
TERRY FRANCONA

Yeah, that was much needed. We got deep enough into the game where we didn't have to overextend some...
TERRY FRANCONA

Nobody likes to see a two-run homer. But I do like the way he handled it.
TERRY FRANCONA

We didn't bring him in to run a marathon.
TERRY FRANCONA

He's an awesome guy. He's one of the best players in the league. All the things we bragged about him...
TERRY FRANCONA

He's going to be a huge part of the Red Sox, maybe starting tonight. I think it's important ... I th...
TERRY FRANCONA

That's hard not to get chills when that stuff is happening. That's about as electric as you'll see i...
TERRY FRANCONA

I think when he is really good he pounds the strike zone and stays out of the middle of the plate. H...
TERRY FRANCONA

He has a good arm. It gets easier as you get to know guys and get a feel.
TERRY FRANCONA

I was pleased with his demeanor.
TERRY FRANCONA

We had baserunners. It's kind of a rarity when we don't throw a bunch of hits up there.
TERRY FRANCONA

I don't know about unique; I think he's good. All good infielders have good instincts, but his baseb...
TERRY FRANCONA

From the first to last pitch, I thought we played with an amazing confidence,
TERRY FRANCONA

I can't tell you if, when or where I'll use him. This is an usual circumstance.
TERRY FRANCONA

I would think it was FOX's.
TERRY FRANCONA

Regardless of how much (the suspension) bothered him or how he felt about things, he really did a go...
TERRY FRANCONA

I think he's hoping, if everything went well, he could be walking without crutches by the All-Star b...
TERRY FRANCONA

Last year, some of those guys kind of got their veteran status. They went through the trials and tri...
TERRY FRANCONA

The ball, just when he throws it down, guys just swing and miss or they hit grounders. He's in a lit...
TERRY FRANCONA

You feel better after a win. But it's not like we can live it up and pound our chests. We have to be...
TERRY FRANCONA

That's why we took Trot and Manny out. If you're gonna lose, rather than have them chase balls down ...
TERRY FRANCONA

Nobody wants to see a two-run homer, ... But I do like the way he handled himself. That's a lot to a...
TERRY FRANCONA

No, he got himself in a predicament where he felt threatened so he kind of took the offensive. He pa...
TERRY FRANCONA

I think he's better prepared mentally and physically to not let that happen. I think he's got his of...
TERRY FRANCONA

I'm not interested in making the Damon-Crisp comparison because I don't think it's really pertinent ...
TERRY FRANCONA

It's not like we can live it up and pound our chest. We've got to come back and beat maybe the best ...
TERRY FRANCONA

I was like the last player on the roster. I was waiting to get released. I remember him treating me ...
TERRY FRANCONA

I talked to Johnny and talked to [team medical director] Dr. [Thomas] Gill just now, and Dr. Gill sa...
TERRY FRANCONA

I think his knee is bothering him, probably more than he?s let on.
TERRY FRANCONA

When he's really good he pounds the strike zone and stays out of the middle of the plate.
TERRY FRANCONA

The one thing that I'm really excited about is when he hits the ball, he runs like his pants are on ...
TERRY FRANCONA

Jason was sitting next to me and we had that exact conversation about a week ago. We'd even gone to ...
TERRY FRANCONA

It's starting to rain. It's a sloppy inning. We get a swinging bunt and all of a sudden you have a r...
TERRY FRANCONA

It's hard to win doubleheaders. The idea is to make this into our advantage somehow. Because of the ...
TERRY FRANCONA

There's so much passion and so much interest in the Red Sox in Boston.
TERRY FRANCONA

He hit two lasers, and that's a good sign.
TERRY FRANCONA

It's good, it worked out well. We put a nice crooked number up early.
TERRY FRANCONA

Maybe we can get him down to Pawtucket three days before he's eligible.
TERRY FRANCONA

I don?t think I ever remotely (doubted).
TERRY FRANCONA

It's certainly no secret that American students are taught less and less about the canonical lit...
TERRY TEACHOUT

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
RANDALL TERRY

If I could reach down in my heart, I would say I'm sorry for every unkind word and thought I eve...
TERRY BRADSHAW

I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments...
RANDALL TERRY

If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correctio...
RANDALL TERRY

What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stu...
RANDALL TERRY

The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Ol...
RANDALL TERRY

If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All ...
RANDALL TERRY

The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money ...
RANDALL TERRY

In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is r...
RANDALL TERRY

If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are...
RANDALL TERRY

How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and s...
RANDALL TERRY

We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
RANDALL TERRY

George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong ...
RANDALL TERRY

We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily toward...
RANDALL TERRY

You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.
RANDALL TERRY

He who frames the question wins the debate.
RANDALL TERRY

It's kind of fun to listen to Christians who say: I'm a New Testament Christian. What other ...
RANDALL TERRY

We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dile...
RANDALL TERRY

I believe that Clinton is the most wicked and vile President that this nation has ever had.
RANDALL TERRY

The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
RANDALL TERRY

I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.
RANDALL TERRY

If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, the...
RANDALL TERRY

Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.
RANDALL TERRY

The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredib...
RANDALL TERRY

Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That ...
RANDALL TERRY

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a f...
RANDALL TERRY

The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.
RANDALL TERRY

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignor...
TERRY PRATCHETT

In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has idea...
TERRY PRATCHETT

There are too many guns in the hands of people that shouldn't have guns. There is too much gun v...
TERRY MCAULIFFE

The thing that you think is imperfect about you is the thing that makes you who you are. It separate...
TERRY CREWS

It wasn't until the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was rat...
TERRY GLAVIN

Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each pie...
TERRY WAITE

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect t...
TERRY PRATCHETT

Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at partie...
TERRY EAGLETON

When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that f...
TERRY SOUTHERN

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
TERRY BROOKS

The kleptocracy overseen by Chinese President Xi Jinping is more vicious and brutally anti-democrati...
TERRY GLAVIN

I just operate on the assumption that all phone conversations are bugged.
TERRY MCAULIFFE

Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.
TERRY PRATCHETT

A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.
TERRY PRATCHETT

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money....
TERRY PRATCHETT

Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down ...
TERRY PRATCHETT

Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, becaus...
TERRY PRATCHETT

She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite th...
TERRY PRATCHETT

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.
TERRY PRATCHETT

The Haavara agreement allowed the escape of well-to-do German Jews in exchange for the liquidation o...
TERRY GLAVIN

I'm never going to write a book like Anthony Sher did, you know, 'The Broadcaster Prepares.&...
TERRY WOGAN

The BBC is the greatest broadcaster in the world. It's the standard that everyone measures thems...
TERRY WOGAN

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.
TERRY GOODKIND

I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head ful...
TERRY PRACHETT

I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisian...
TERRY BRADSHAW

People can make any political calculation they want. I make decisions what I think is in the best in...
TERRY MCAULIFFE

John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friend...
TERRY GILLIAM

The main trouble with Hollywood is that the guys you have to pitch to, the guys who run the studios,...
TERRY ZWIGOFF

My hat's off to documentary filmmakers. I don't know if I'm ever going back to it. You&#...
TERRY ZWIGOFF

Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought ...
TERRY EAGLETON

The digital apocalypse continues to blight the lives of television producers, music-industry executi...
TERRY TEACHOUT

I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to st...
TERRY GILLIAM

Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing...
TERRY EAGLETON

I am, as it happens, a baby boomer, but not one who feels any broad-gauge nostalgia for the '60s...
TERRY TEACHOUT

Argentina has elected a centre-right president, Mauricio Macri. Bolivia's Evo Morales, having lo...
TERRY GLAVIN

It was commonplace to hear it said, after the Bosnian genocide kicked off in 1992 and the Rwandan ge...
TERRY GLAVIN

It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are t...
TERRY PRATCHETT

I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse.
"Right you are, sir!" said the serge...
TERRY PRATCHETT

Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.
TERRY GROSS

This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.
TERRY PRATCHETT

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brand...
TERRY PRATCHETT

The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no la...
TERRY PRATCHETT

They stole from rich merchants and temples and kings. They didn't steal from poor people; this was n...
TERRY PRATCHETT

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.
TERRY MCMILLAN

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary wh...
HELEN TERRY

William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir."
Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling togeth...
TERRY PRATCHETT

The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identif...
TERRY PRATCHETT

I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" TERRY PRATCHETT

If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's wha...
TERRY PRATCHETT

The place where the story happened was a world on the back of four elephants perched on the s...
TERRY PRATCHETT

If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still g...
TERRY PRATCHETT

If you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all ...
TERRY PRATCHETT

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and tryi...
TERRY PRATCHETT

Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.
PAUL TERRY

Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?
TERRY PRATCHETT

Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?
TERRY PRATCHETT

It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of goi...
TERRY PRATCHETT

If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunders...
TERRY PRATCHETT

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
TERRY PRATCHETT

Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.
TERRY PRATCHETT

Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?
TERRY JOHNSON

Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is ...
TERRY GOODKIND

Few religions are definite about the size of Heaven, but on the planet Earth the Book of Revelation ...
TERRY PRATCHETT

It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad
TERRY PRATCHETT

God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which migh...
TERRY PRATCHETT

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it f...
TERRY PRATCHETT

All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life ...
TERRY PRATCHETT

Grinning like a necrophiliac in a morgue.
TERRY PRATCHETT

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot ...
TERRY PRATCHETT

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.
TERRY EAGLETON

It's hard to compare them. When you don't locate, major league hitters find a way to make you pay for it. I thought he misfired a few times, especially early. That really hurt.

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It's hard to compare them. When you don't locate, major league hitters find a way to make you pay for it. I thought he misfired a few times, especially early. That really hurt.

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