At no point did we look to move Coco. We had a clear sense of his value.
Quotes about coco (15 Quotes)
Through my years, I've felt a closer needed to pitch about 20 innings in the spring. But I like the course Coco is on. As long as he keeps building up and feeling good, I think he'll be fine.
Every time we had an opportunity, they would come up with a play to get out of it. CoCo would run around and wait until he would find a guy. It's hard to cover all those guys as long as he was back there.
There's tremendous enthusiasm. Some of the ordinary metrics you use are ticket sales, and they're well ahead of last year, but you really want to use the anecdotal metrics, you want to hear what people say to you as you're walking down the street, and they're thrilled that you have Coco Crisp and they're thrilled to see what Josh Beckett looks like in a Red Sox uniform ... you can certainly feel the buzz throughout the Boston area, and I trust, throughout New England.
We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was Chuck Berry's piano player.
He's from my country. He's a really good player. But fans love Coco, for sure. I don't know how they're going to feel if he's traded. They need to know baseball is basically a business.
We think investing in Coco was a wise move.
Blocking for Coco and seeing him break through the hole gives us a good feeling. We love to block and make things happen.
At no point this winter did we shop Coco. But once word leaked out (about the potential trade with Boston), we got over a dozen calls from other teams about Coco. We got offered some very attractive prospects for Coco, and some of the deals were tempting to make. But this was the only one we wanted.
If I play well and Coco comes back, someone might say, 'Hey, let's trade for Willie.' You never know. You've just got to know your role and your abilities and make the most of it.
Coco Crisp is not Johnny Damon -- he is his own player. He brings his own strengths. Johnny was an outstanding, elite leadoff guy and center fielder for us for four years. It's unfair to ask Coco Crisp to fill those shoes. He's going to go and do it his own way.
I haven't been contacted, the Rangers haven't been contacted and I haven't had a chance to talk to Coco. We support him and whatever decision he makes. I understand he's under some pressure with national pride at stake.
Coco is our closer. We live and die with him. I think he is great. Sometimes you have a night you can't find the rhythm.
It's a tough time for Coco. He's balancing a lot of things and trying to make a lot of people happy. I don't think people realize the pressure on this guy. There's a lot more going on than just the Texas Rangers, and anybody who has been in the Dominican knows what I'm talking about.
It was certainly a story of girl meets boy at Chanel. This story is all about what would happen if Coco Chanel met James Dean, ... Coco always borrowed from the boys. She took their jackets, and made them into uniforms for women.