"Father [Pat] Cahill was our athletic director," Musselman said. "So before they named our new coach [in 1984], I went in there and told him, 'Hey I think I can coach these guys and be a student athlete and a coach, and it'd be great publicity, the first time ever and all that.' 'And Father Cahill told me to get back to class.'"
What I discovered about him as a player is a lot of the same character values that he still has, said Jamieson, who's currently the pitching coach at Missouri. That's the competitiveness, tenacity, being a great teammate, being loyal, doing all the right things. He had qualities as a human being that you recognized, and I personally had a lot of value in those.
Manolo Gonzalez wouldn't change a thing, proud to have been in Garcia's place. A symbol of some day, he reached the top flight via the long route, having coached at every age group and every level in Spain, from the regional league to tercera, with its 397 teams across 18 groups; from Segunda B, still theoretically amateur and made up of four regional divisions with 80 teams, to segunda; and on to primera, no guarantee he would get there.
"I've done everything at Chelsea and for me now, the one thing that is missing is being manager of the football club hence why I went into coaching after I finished, because my dream was to go out and learn my trade a little bit."
Manny Ramirez last appeared in an MLB game in 2011. But the former Red Sox great and two-time World Series champion is reportedly seeking a return to pro baseball - this time as a coach. According to Jon Heyman of The New York Post, Ramirez "is getting word out to all 30 teams he'd love to serve as an MLB hitting coach."
Clearly my opinion remains the same. For me it's a shame because I think he's a player who's still active, who can continue to give a lot to the club, the team. We can continue to enjoy the level he has, as you said, he showed it the other day, Wednesday in New York, with a great game he played,
"We were convinced from the moment we met him, says the chief executive of the Austrian club Lask. Oliver started his presentation and it was like that scene in Jerry Maguire: You had me at hello."
