Jim Hendry Quotes on Time (13 Quotes)

I don't know who he meant. I clearly wouldn't think that Todd Walker would have any reason to tell you I've never not told him the truth. Whether I'm right or wrong, I've spent 27 years of my life telling players what I felt was the truth at that time. My decisions don't always work out, but they're never done with any deception toward the player.

Dr. Kremchek felt that from his studying the MRI, it would be nothing to stop him from being available once Spring Training opens. Why we're doing it now is to avoid a sprained ankle that would set back his rehab. We're just trying to give ourselves the maximum amount of time, no matter what it is.

When Felix comes here, you want him to play a decent amount of time. If we had an injury in the outfield, it certainly would've been Felix who was called up. He's capable of coming up and performing.

He has physically never looked better to me. He's probably 10, 15 pounds lighter than last year and is just in great shape. He's done as much precautionary preparation work as anyone could. He has already been throwing and gotten ahead of where he usually would be at this time.

It's obviously not a place we wanted to be. For a lot of reasons, it didn't work out the way any of us wanted. You just have to adjust and move on. There is no sense taking the month of September, hanging our head and feeling bad about what happened the six months before. We're going to try to get some people more playing time.

I really haven't set a time frame. It's something I'll focus on at the appropriate time that I feel comfortable.

I really haven't set a time frame. I feel the same way about Dusty Baker as I did the day we signed him. For anyone to think it's a controversial issue, that would be wrong.

He certainly made no secret of the fact he wanted to be a Cub for a long time, and we certainly wanted to accommodate him. He's a special player.

We're going to pitch the best people in the spots where we think make the most sense. When you have guys who go down like we have and know that Kerry Wood and Wade Miller will be late, we're here to put the best people available at the time out there and win as many games as we can and not worry about who's coming back when.

He's been a winner for a long time. He's a gamer. He made 14 starts in a lot of discomfort. He's a risk health-wise, but his makeup and character are good. Even if he helps us the last three, four months of the season, it will be worth the gamble, plus if he clicks, we can look at him for 2007.

I'm hoping it gives us a jolt. It's time, we have a lot to do.

We're in a position now to make sure we gave Woody the proper amount of time to do this exploratory surgery, which he'll have in Cincinnati on Wednesday.

Dusty will write the lineup. We still have three more weeks of camp. I feel that all three guys are capable of playing very, very well. They're just different styles of players. We'll just play it out and worry about it when the time comes.