Frank Robinson Early Quotations

I can't do desperation things, because those guys will lose confidence in me. You have to be very careful this early in the season -- what you do and how you do it.

You just don't like to see sloppy play. It's never too early to be concerned.

We have other people to look at this early in the spring.

We haven't been scoring runs. ... We haven't been getting the lead like we were able to early in the season. Tonight is a formula we used with the success we had in the first part of the season.

We have to get people on base. That's what we have to do. We have to get people on base and we have to get the big base hit. We're not doing any of that right now. We also have to start driving the ball to the gaps -- doubles. And we have to start our offense early in the inning rather than waiting for one or two outs. Those are the things we have to do and then things will fall into place. We will score runs. We will have the opportunity to score runs. We will have the opportunity to drive runs in.

Pretty soon, if we don't right the ship, it's going to be too late. The early stuff is over with. You wait and wait and wait, and it continues and continues and continues, so you try something else.

This is kind of what I would say is an amazing streak, but the club doesn't amaze me because they showed early on that they have the desire, the heart and we hung in there in close ball games, but this has been kind of an unbelievable roll that we're on right now and who knows when it's going to end.

It's never too early to be concerned. But I'm not ready to go jump off a building or anything.

This is what we thought we could get out of him early in the year, ... What a weapon he would have been.

I am perplexed about how we're not producing on offense. But I can't start panicking now. You have to be very careful this early in the season. We have to be patient to a certain extent. How much longer, I can't tell you.