Top 10 Don Cooper Quotes

Don Cooper
(Baseball Coach)

Donald James Cooper  is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball and the current pitching coach of the Chicago White Sox. He attended Monsignor McClancy Memorial High School (class of 1974) and New York Institute of Technology.Cooper was drafted by the New York Yankees in the 17th round of the 1978 Major League Baseball Draft. After the 1980 season, he was selected by the Minnesota Twins from the Yankees in the Rule 5 draft.
Cooper played for the Twins in 1981 and 1982, before being traded to the Toronto Blue Jays for Dave Baker. After 1983, Cooper was traded to the Yankees for a minor league player. He signed with the Athletics for the 1986 season, appearing only in the minor leagues. In 44 MLB games (3 starts) spread over 4 seasons, Cooper compiled a 1-6 record, with a 5.27 ERA.

Top 10 Don Cooper Quotes

Selling more of what you sell has nothing to do with what you sell. It has everything to do with your prospect's wants, needs, fears, goals, values and priorities.

Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor games get in there.

Your competition is EVERYTHING else your prospect could conceivably spend their money on.

Real good pitchers don't let too many poor games get in there.

I'm not in charge of making moves, you know. I'm in charge of coaching.

The attention is nice and flattering, but with all that stuff that was going on last year, I had no intentions to go anywhere. My wish and my hopes for the rest of my career is to be a coach for the White Sox.

My job is basically to coach the people who are there. Everyone in baseball knows, though, that Vazquez is a high-quality pitcher.

It's almost going to be like Opening Day. They're physically going to be strong, and they'll have to control the adrenaline, like Garland did [Friday night]. They're going to have to deal with it. 

I don't believe there's a baseball job that I couldn't take care of. 

Starting pitching will either lead you to the White House or the out house. 

Cooper has worked in the White Sox organization since 1988, when he served as a minor league pitching coach for the Single-A South Bend Silver Hawks. He also served as pitching coach for the Single-A Advanced Sarasota White Sox from 1989 through 1991 and the Double-A Birmingham Barons in 1992. He became the White Sox minor league pitching coordinator from 1993 through 2002, aside from serving as pitching coach for the Triple-A Nashville Sounds in 1995 and 1996. Cooper became the White Sox pitching coach in July 2002, replacing Nardi Contreras. With the departure of Ozzie Guillen on September 26, 2011, and Joey Cora on September 27, 2011, Cooper became the 38th manager of the White Sox, filling the role for the final two games of the 2011 season before yielding the position to Robin Ventura.