Famous Quotes & Sayings

You could see the influence of Edgar in midfield, expressing for every ball and everybody was fighting,

You could see our kids were out of steam. In both of our Saturday games, we were trying to hit the ball really hard and trying to take really big swings. They were tired.

You could say the post defense isn't doing very well, but maybe his teammate isn't dropping down for a double-team, or maybe the person guarding the ball isn't pressuring the ball. It's tough to pass into the post if you're pressuring the ball. There could be three or four things wrong, and usually are. You need to be accountable and help each other be accountable.

You could say a lot of things, but they beat us to every punch. They didn't play us 1-on-1. Every time I got the ball it was a team effort.

You could just tell the difference between the old regime and the new regime. We're not going to sit on the ball with eight minutes left and try to run the ball out and rely on our defense to win the game for us. We went out there aggressive.

You could just tell that the way these kids have been hitting the ball this past week that things are starting to come around for them.

You could hit a slice and then the ball would go up and the wind would blow it back at you. This is a day where you really have to strike at the ball.

Shaun Alexander

You continue to give us the ball on the ground, and Mack's going to pretty much wear them down. After a while, we're going to break some runs. That's just how our offense is. But it just didn't turn out that way.

Dan Wheeler

You come out to set the tone, get ahead, work the count. I didn't even give myself a chance. I didn't throw a ball that was close.

You can't have spectators watching when he gets the ball. You need all 11 men to run to the ball when he has it.

You can't go as long as we did without scoring. (Mater Dei) did a good job pushing us out so we couldn't get the ball to our post players.

You can't give her too many swings cause she's going to put the ball away.

Billy Donovan

You can't get many assists if you don't shoot the ball well. I thought our player movement in the first half at times was poor.

You can't force anything, but when the opportunity presents itself, if the ball was in my hands, I was going to do it.

You can't expect to win turning the ball over 30 times.

You can't win if you can't make your foul shots. We wanted to get the ball in his hands. Six out of eight, those were huge foul shots.

You can't turn the ball over, not in this game. In the playoffs, one mistake can cost you a whole season, and we had four or five. Our job is to control what we can control, and we didn't do that.

You can't turn over the ball five times and expect to win. It's something we have to work on.

Ramon Ortiz

You can't think about a small ballpark. You have to keep the ball down. That's what you must do in the game. Everybody said the ball flew out in Cincinnati, but it's a good field. It doesn't matter if it's a small ballpark, big ballpark. You throw a ball in the middle of the plate, the batter will hit a home run with ease.

Tim Sheens

You can't tell me that was a consistent 80 minutes. We were up and down, dropped the ball on the first a couple of times, did some silly things. We're still learning.

You can't take your eye off the ball here.

You can't take nothing away from them. They came out and played hard. Rex found a little groove, and they moved the ball some. But when we needed a stop, we usually got it. And when we got the ball back for the offense, they usually did something with it.

You can't take anything away from (Texas State). They are one tough ball club. I give them a lot of credit, but there are things we need to fix.

Billy Gillispie

You can't stop a big guy like that. You just have to hope he doesn't totally destroy you. If you do too much, and send too many guys his way, he is a great passer. He just knows how to put the ball in the basket and make everyone better.

You can't rely on the ball bouncing to you. You've got to go get it.

You can't rely on the ball bounce, you have to go get it.

Jason Varitek

You can't read too much into it. He's thrown the ball well for us more than he's not thrown the ball well for us since he's been back.

Ken Whisenhunt

You can't point the finger at that. There were a lot of factors involved with that game. We certainly weren't giving him a lot of time to throw the ball at times.

You can't plan on hitting the ball soft. He threw it soft, so I hit it soft. They were catching the hard ones anyway.

You can point to that. You can point to the fact that we weren't able to run or get the ball to Steve Smith. That's a recipe for disaster for this football team. We need to run the football effectively, and that helps get Steve open. It's like we can't do one unless we do the other, unfortunately.

The main three for Brookings, they got the ball to them. The rest of the team worked to get them open. Their rebounding was intense at times and they'd look to get the ball up court.

The main thing was the whole team was hustling, which made people rush and turn the ball over. I guess it just happened to come my way.

The main thing that happened tonight was that we found a way to win. We hit some big shots when we needed to, and we protected the ball down the stretch when they were putting on some serious pressure.