Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johnny Damon

Normally, our bats will get us back in it, but that didn't happen today.

Allison Merzon

It was time for a rally, we turned our jackets inside out and from there our bats woke up.

Rick Heller

Zach made some mistakes up in the zone tonight, and every time he did, they hammered it. The guys on their team hadn't been swinging the bats real well, but tonight they did.

Mark E. Smith

Early in the season, our pitching really came through for us. The pitching has dropped off lately but the bats have really picked up the slack.

Russ Adams

Boston has the bats going, but the wild card, I have no idea.

Debbie Holcombe

Broome has a good squad. They always swing the bats hard.

Jim Reiland

Best team we've faced, no doubt. I told Sean that there was nobody in the conference better than them because they swung the bats real good.

O. Henry

Besides the second game yesterday, this about matched Georgia last weekend as far as how effective we were swinging the bats and getting runs in. Hopefully we're hitting on all cylinders here.

Ben Quinby

We had a stellar defensive game, even though we had three errors. This was a tremendous confidence- booster for the team. We didn't strike out too many and we did it with our gloves. The bats were there and the pitching is coming around.

Tim Healy

Any game is scary right now. Tonight, it all came down to shooting.

Akhenaton

As a camel beareth labour, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.

Raul Grijalva

As a first-generation son, a native-born son of an immigrant that came to this country, I hope we do not close the door to that legacy.

Rosevelt Colvin

As a defensive team you want to get off the field. They were able to come up with the plays and the schemes -- whatever it was -- we weren't doing, they did it and they came up with a victory.

Chris Drury

As a group we're kind of limping in there, so despite being one point away it's still a frustrating night. We came here to get two points, and we didn't.

Brian Dawkins

The bye week came at a good time because after a loss like that (in Dallas), guys can get away.

Kenny Guinn

The BRAC carefully considered the data Nevada presented and came to the conclusion that the 152nd Airlift Wing is essential to our homeland security and emergency preparedness capabilities,

Coach Bell

The B team came out and played really well in the first game. They did a great job of setting it up. It was a fun match to watch.

Geno Auriemma

The Brittany thing is a lot better than we could have even imagined. We could be sitting here right now talking about how the meniscus transplant didn't work as well as we liked and it doesn't look like she will play. That was a possibility. And here we're looking at it and - knock on wood - she hasn't had one incident with that since she started being able to do things. That came out way better than we anticipated.

Stephen Roberts

Productivity hasn't met the high hopes held out for it and, as a result, has pretty much dropped off the radar screen for economy watchers.

Mike Heffernan

The rounds played is down about 5 percent this year, ... The season passes are down ... about 20 percent. But even though the number of passes sold dropped 20 percent, the number of rounds played dropped only 5 percent.

Mike Zimmerman

The program dropped off in the late '90s,

Peter Lurie

Enforcement levels have dropped so low that boosting them has become very easy.

Lance Armstrong

EPO is a powerful drug, ... Some say it makes you 10 percent faster. Let's say I took EPO in 1999 and didn't take it from 2000 to 2005. My performance never dropped off. Obviously, I'm not saying I did. But I only got faster.

Kevin McFann

Brock knew that we didn't have a 215-pounder, so he unselfishly dropped down to make our team stronger.

Daniel Snyder

Blueprints are for Harvard MBAs. I dropped out of college.

I. Stone

We've had a lot of kids who were dropped off.

Padma Lakshmi

My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.

Joey Skaggs

As a news story, I'm just a subject, not a person. My early performances were provocative, so I was stereotypically portrayed as a counter-cultural figure by the mainstream media.

Keith Newman

Defensively, I think we've got to get off to a better start than what we have. I think we've got to go out there and set the tone early in the game.

Pau Gasol

The thing we wanted to do is jump on them quick. When a team is not having a good year, when you jump on them early and hit them first it's hard for them to get back up.

John Leslie

I usually end up having to owe a little money so why not pay at the last minute? It is hard to get things done early for me.

John Batina

I wanted to get everyone in the game, and we scored enough runs early where I felt comfortable doing that. It was nice to play kids who hadn't got a lot of playing time.

Stuart Hoffman

The NABE panel sees the economy roaring back in early 2006 following the fourth quarter's tepid 1.1 percent growth.

Tom Taylor

The music that is most special to you and stays special all through your life is the music that is special to you in junior high, high school and in your early 20's. That's when you have time to spend on popular culture.

I. Stone

Adrienne Squire is a great player. Ash played pretty complete, did a nice job early on her.

Jon Groth

After losing that first game the way they lost it, I really felt we lost an opportunity to really gain some momentum early in the (second) game.

Roy Williams

Q's been playing much better lately and I told him he's got to play. I thought Q did some nice things for us. I think he really has played much better.

Paul Tetreault

Jenn shut her down and that was key. She'd been averaging over 15 lately and she got eight.

Cristie Kerr

I'm playing so well lately that I have a lot of confidence,

Dana Schultz

Our team saying this year is, 'We love us,' and that is what we say after every win. We've been on a roll lately and have played better as a unit.

Paul McManus

We have been working on that a lot lately in practice.

William Hatcher

I shouldn't have picked up my dribble. I'm a better player than that.

Mike Maroth

I've been getting a lot of runs. They've been scoring a lot of runs for me. They picked me up several times,

Roland Kampmeier

They all picked on me. It was survival of the fittest.

Jonathan Stamp

Bruno (Heller) deliberately picked out stuff which is shocking, arresting, surprising,

Natalie Cole

My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.

Curtis Withers

I don't think our team was ever cocky. But you kind of get casual. When we went to the Wyoming tournament, we were picked to win, and we kind of got casual.

Sgt. Helmer

If you are going to be truant, don't want to do it down here because you are going to get picked up.

Dennis Perry

He's smart. He has picked up everything really well,

Robin Hobb

I think there have always been male writers, female writers. As a reader, I never picked up a book and said, 'Oh, I can't read this - it's about a male,' and set it back down.

John Flaherty

He's been pitching better, but tomorrow is going to be a big one. You don't want to say 'must win,' but we need this one tomorrow. Hopefully, he'll come out on top of his game.

A.J. Pierzynski

In the end, our pitching was amazing. I don't know if you'll ever see it again.

John Schuerholz

It wasn't shocking. It wasn't unexpected. It's a disappointing development. He was a real big part of our pitching staff and pitched sensationally the first part of the season.