Tim Purpura Quotes
It does cause some awkward times at the end of [August]... We had to send out a couple of kids we liked at the end of the month on our pitching staff and we had to bring up some other guys the next day. 
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I mean, players have lives outside of the game, and what they do with those lives, that's really their decision. They bear some risks, is the way I look at it. The way Lance has handled this is absolutely first-class, and what you'd expect from Lance Berkman.
- Tim Purpura
What we're going to do is use spring training as sort of a feeling-out process for Phil and Preston and our other outfielders. It gives us a lot of comfort to know that you've got a pure center fielder like Preston. But he's also so athletic, he can come in and play either corner and we'll feel very comfortable with it.
- Tim Purpura
Organizations like ours, like Atlanta, like the Cardinals, there are similarities to winning organizations... You have that focus that it's about winning, only winning. You have to have higher expectations than other people. And sometimes, you have to flush guys out of your system that might not buy into it, that might put their stats first, rather than winning. In those types of organizations, guys like that don't last, and they kind of self-select themselves out, and you end up being able to win on a consistent basis because you keep the guys who buy into that.
- Tim Purpura