Gonzalez Quotes

I would watch Gonzalez play and he mesmerized you. It would be like looking into the flame of a fire. You know you couldn`t take your eyes off him because you never knew what he would do next.

(Rather than designating a leader before the race starts, Phonak is adopting a `wait and see` policy.) We have a couple of guys that are very good right now, ... I think that Santos Gonzalez is good, Gutierrez is good and...Oscar (Pereiro), I don`t know how motivated he is, but he looks fit. I don`t think we are going to pick one person and say that we will work for them. There are other teams to control the race, just like the Tour. Discovery are here, and I think Roberto (Heras) wants to win, so I would expect that they will work. But the Vuelta is different, anyway, you have to be careful with the wind and so it is more a case that we have to stay together.

(That ruling may bode well for Juan Miguel Gonzalez, who has petitioned the court to recognize his exclusive right to speak for Elian in legal matters, and to be left to raise his child in peace.) It would certainly have been very unusual for the court to rule against the father because the law presumes that a person`s parent is their guardian, and doesn`t appoint outside guardians in the normal course of events, ... For the court to appoint a third-party guardian it would usually need an indication that something was badly wrong in the parent-child relationship, such as abuse.

The thing I`m most upset about was walking Gonzalez. I`ve got to be able to execute pitches and give us a chance to get out of it. I can`t walk a guy on four pitches. That`s unacceptable, but it happened, and it ended up blowing the game wide open.

I`ve done everything I could to stay out of (the Gonzalez case), to avoid politicizing it, but I do believe that it is our responsibility to uphold the law, and we`re doing our best to do that.

The beauty of it is any time someone does something within their (defensive) package, then that`s going to open up other things. Maybe if they change what they do on Teddy`s side, then (receiver) Anthony Gonzalez has a chance, (receiver) Santonio Holmes or whoever.