Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shawn Scobee

I was in there three or four times every day during the week. I went before class and after class and before practice and then after batting practice. I think I spent more time in the training room than I did in class this week.

Randy Young

John has a knack for making things happen batting where he does.

Jane Leavy

In the spring of 1957, Mickey Mantle was the king of New York. He had the Triple Crown to prove it, having become only the 12th player in history to earn baseball's gaudiest jewel. In 1956, he had finally fulfilled the promise of his promise, batting .353, with 52 homers and 130 RBIs. Everybody loved Mickey.

David Wright

I may tone it down, ... Back off on batting practice, back off on taking ground balls. Get to bed earlier.

D. James

I'm batting a thousand in the big leagues. I never thought that day would come. It kind of stung a little bit. I got it off the end of the bat, but I'll take that.

Dav Whatmore

If the pitch is going to deteriorate batting second then I don't think it is going to make too much of a difference. But in good conditions an extra batsman will certainly help chasing down the score.

Mike Goff

I'll go in for a few days and see if the staff has any needs. I'll look at the players to see what progress they're making, see who needs to go up or who might need to be released. I'll even spell the coaches by pitching batting practice. Mostly, though, it's a lot of early work, working on individual skills and needs.

Jim Brownlee

In these mid-week contests, we try to get as many people work as possible and still give ourselves a chance to win. Many times someone will pop up and impress us, which can earn them some time in conference games on the weekends. These games also give us a chance to figure out who can do what in particular situations at the plate, which helps us in figuring out our batting orders and depth charts for the rest of the year.

Jacque Jones

I haven't felt good about my batting average. I'm sick about it. I can't stand it. I know I'm much better than a .250 hitter.

Steve Ralston

Italy is a very defensive team, very well organized, they look to counter-attack. Their defense is rock solid.

R. Inge

He just knows how to pound the zone once he gets ahead. He just lets his defense work for him. He's a smart pitcher. He knows what he's doing.

Allan Ray

I think we fed off our defense a little more in the second half, and we got into a flow offensively as a result.

Shawn Barber

I think as far as linebackers are concerned, if you can run and make plays and if you have an instinct to be around the ball, you'll succeed (in the Eagles' system). This defense is in your face, it puts pressure on the offense and it dictates. We don't read and react. We dictate to the offense what we want to do and make them make a decision.

Holly Paddock

I think it was definitely our defense because some nights we were horrible shooting. Our defense is what got us to the championship.

Ken Crawford

I think it was defense, I don't think it was nerves. I think it was defense.

Keaton Nankivil

I think it took the wind out of them, because of the way they were going so hard on defense and they still couldn't keep us from scoring.

Luke Jackson

I think it's the only way they are going to get better. And in their defense, Georgia and Oregon State are good teams.

Tim Cross

I thank my lucky stars he's on defense now. He's a huge part of what we're doing. He's doing a great job.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

Ken Auletta

Journalists prize independence, not teamwork. Journalists understand waste is inherent to good journalism ... that good reporting and writing is hard to quantify.

Bobby Cox

John is not 100 percent. But if he's 95 percent, that's good enough.

Hector Garcia

John has pretty good quickness for a big guy,

Bobby Cox

I talked to Leo and I think he's going home and that's a big thing if a guy can do that. I think it's a good situation for him. He had a wonderful 15 years here and we move on.

Dwane Casey

I'd like to see if he can get up 20 shots. You can't just walk through that and get that many shots up, quality shots. To get 20 quality shots, it takes work.

Rob Zombie

I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.

Trisha Goddard

There is a learning quality in all of our shows.

Richard Davidson

The best way I can mentor and lead those around me is to embody these qualities myself.

William McDonough

We are not a green standard, we are a quality standard. We're different, we're multi dimensional.

William James

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

Robert M. Pirsig

Quality tends to fan out like waves.

Robert M. Pirsig

Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.

Robert M. Pirsig

Quality isn't a thing. It is an event.

Kathy Pulley

He's a whole lot better than we ever imagined. I am surprised that he wasn't just shattered.

Howard Opinsky

I was as surprised as everyone else was to see it.

Jerry Jones

I was very surprised that he was still there.

Jordan Leopold

I was actually kind of surprised but it's OK. We get all of the attention.

David Hayes

I'm surprised to see him doing so well

Jeremy Trill

Things are going very well. I am surprised how well it's going.

Frank Sacks

This is really groundbreaking. We were very surprised by this data.

Dan Garton

Do they like what we're doing? No. Are they surprised by it? No.

Steve Smith

We weren't surprised by any of them. We were just surprised by so many of them. In my recollection, that's the most anomalies that's ever come up.