Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rickey Henderson

He can steal as many bases as he wants to. The question is whether he wants to.

Mark Riggin

This was one our better performances. We swung the bats well, ran the bases well and made the plays defensively. It was a great effort by the kids today, we really needed this win today.

Tim Johnson

It indicates this BRAC Commission will be quite independent in making its determinations about which bases to close and which to keep open,

Tom Graham

I think the key for us is maturity. It was a big jump for our freshman going from Pony League to high school baseball. You have a shorter distance between the bases and from the mound to home in Pony. But our young guys did carry a the load for us, or they wouldn't have been there.

Paul Johnson

I think it's really more a tribute to what the Naval Academy's all about. We're fortunate here in San Diego that we have some military bases and a lot of people are stationed in the area, and hopefully they're proud of what's going on at the academy.

Nick Swisher

Last year, I was horrible with the bases loaded. I was like, 'Oh, man, oh, man,' I'd get jittery. Now, I'm not the guy who's in trouble, it's the guy on the mound who's in trouble.

Doug Davis

Pierre's too dangerous. He'll slap down a bunt with the bases loaded. I wanted Lowell.

Craig Morgan

I ran into (a problem) with 'Almost Home' because we put out the next single a little early, so we're not trying to do that. We're trying to keep the bases loaded.

Brian Bannister

I gave him a pat because I felt right there with him. It's tough watching those guys run around the bases and you can't do anything about it, especially after you pitch well. It's just sometimes the game comes down to one pitch. It's frustrating. We didn't have to say anything. We felt each other's pain.

Dennis Deper

He can move runners, bunt and execute the hit-and-run.

Steve Kittrell

I thought we played a very good game except for there being too many strikeouts and the bunt defense at third. That ended up being the run that hurt us. Eric tried to guide it over to third and we had the lead runner.

Sean Cotter

I think we just get into a habit of watching Jaclyn when she starts dominating. And we have to deal with that. We still have to be able to play defense. We need to do a better job of defending the push bunt because they burned us on that a couple times.

Jeremiah Denniston

I?d like to take back that first inning because we had an opportunity on the bunt to get her at first and missed that and a couple others. We gave them some runs, but I think we held our own.

Glen Gardner

The key is that we're not playing from behind. When the pitchers do good and our hitters come through, it allows us to bunt and hit and run and do the things it takes to win.

Joe Randa

It's just reaction. You work on those bunt plays in Spring Training. It's just fun to execute them.

Brandon Morrow

A lot of the southern teams rely more on slugging than the west coast teams, who like to hit-and-run, bunt and use speed on the bases. I'm going to challenge (Baylor) with the fastball, but I don't think I'm going to change anything else.

Gary Ferguson

It's all about execution. We got the hit, and got the bunt down and then the sacrifice fly. The kids executed down the stretch.

John Geary

This is what we have been doing, we self-destruct in certain innings. I mean (Chris) Tuttle certainly wasn't on his game, he walked quite a few, but he had a couple bunt situations early on, routine plays, that changed the whole outcome of those two innings.

Jim Jensen

I'll be like slapping all over and I can't wait to get back into the house.

Jack Levin

You don't give the perpetrators a slap on the wrist.

Sterling Hayden

I don't think I'll have to kill her. Just slap that pretty face into hamburger meat, that's all.

Tony Johnson

We kind of took it as a slap in the face, so we said we're going to start doing something about it.

Kwame Brown

I was going to slap the (expletive) out of him.

Sheriff Gay

I do think they have to have more than a slap on the wrist.