Alex Cora Quotes

Alex Cora

Profession : Baseball Player

Birth : October 18, 1975

Bartolo used to do his cardio work during the game. They had the Stairmaster and there were two TVs. One with the game and one with the Spanish soap opera. He'd watch both at the same time, but he knew what was going on with the game.

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When someone you don't know comes up and offers you something you need, that touches you. You know it's from the heart.

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I always say you have to be accountable, transparent and responsible. I ask that from my players and I'm the same way.

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I'm not one that hides from making mistakes or admitting mistakes.

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You don't have to win the same way to be successful. The more you can show that you win a game in different ways - maybe a well-pitched game, or a big offensive outburst, or a close game or an extra-inning game or a game when you have to use a lot of pitchers because your starter didn't have it that day.

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Make sure you value the outs. You get 27 in a nine-inning game. Each out is very important.

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As great as 2018 was, it was a challenge.

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Ten games, a year, two years, three years - it doesn't matter. Being suspended is hell and you don't want to go through that.

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I'll be open about it: I come from a suspension. And I know how embarrassing that is and how tough that is, not only on you as a person, but your family, your friends, and the people that love you.

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You sign your contract and you've got to go to work.

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I'm confident in what I do.

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Everybody's in the best shape of their life when they come to spring training.

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I made a big mistake in '17. I'm paying the price. I'm still going to pay the price, but at the same time I've got to keep moving forward and not live in the past.

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When you gain that trust, when they can go into your office because you tell him the truth all the time, they open up not only as players - they're going to perform - but as people, and that's what you want.

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If I make them feel comfortable, I do believe, on a daily basis, we're going to get the best out of the player.

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If I don't protect them, I'm going to lose respect and they're going to be in a bad spot. When a guy struggles, it's we struggle. And it's not Brayan Bello hung a changeup, it's we hung a changeup.

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If we keep living in the past, we're going to pay the price.

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I'm not one that hides from making mistakes or admitting mistakes, and I've been doing that.

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We've got to keep grinding every day and show up every day.

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Sometimes we try things and they don't work out. But in the end you trust your information; you trust your coaches; you trust your players.

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