Ozzie Guillen

Trivia

• Received a rising ovation from the crowd of 37,706 Chicagoans when introduced before his first game as a skipper at U.S. Cellular Field on April 13, 2004.
• Won the National League Pennant while with the 1999 Atlanta Braves.
• Ranks among the White Sox all-time leaders in games played, hits, and at-bats.
• Was regarded for his passion, speed, hustle,intesity and defensive abilities and his ebullient love for the game, spending his entire career in the Venezuelan Winter League with Tiburones de La Guaira.
• Is a member of the select group of light-hitting, quick-handed shortstops that emerged from Venezuela.
• Coached for the Montreal Expos in 2002 and Florida Marlins, where he won his first World Series ring in 2003 before accepting his current position with the White Sox.
• His career stretched from 1985 through 2000, playing for the White Sox (1985–97), Baltimore Orioles (1998), Atlanta Braves (1998–1999) and Tampa Bay Devil Rays (2000).
• Is the first Latin-born manager in the history of the game to have won a World Series.
• Is a former shortstop in Major League Baseball and the current manager of the 2005 World Series champion Chicago White Sox.

Quotes

• "He doesn't like me, I don't like him. One reason is, if you don't like me as a man and what I do, I can respect that. But, if you don't like me and you're going to take it out on my players, you're wrong. That's unprofessional. I just let him know I don't like him the first day I see him, and I think he feels the same way about me. And we have to move on."
• "I'm a little upset with him. You're still young. You're going to keep getting bigger. He knows he's got a problem. We talked about it.... When you're young and you're good, you can get away with a lot of stuff. When you're getting older and you go down, they say you're fat. Right now it's, 'Oh, he's a little chubby. He likes to eat.' When you're not hitting .340 with 40 home runs, they're going to call you a fat boy from Venezuela. You'd better lose some weight."
• "I put Bud Selig in a spot he's not supposed to be." Guillen also said, "If I hurt anybody with what I called him, I apologize, but I wasn't talking about those people. I was talking strictly about [Mariotti]. I will apologize to the people I offended because I should have used another word. Besides that, I'm still waiting for Jay. Why he's so afraid to show up to the ballpark? When you're afraid to do something, you feel guilty about something. Then tell him we'll pay his cab. Tell him to tell