Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Glavine

I was getting in position to throw to second when the ball stayed down. I just didn't get the hop I was anticipating. After it hit the top of my glove, I was just trying to make sure I could get one out. I don't know if we could've turned the double play, but I would like to have found out.

Billy Donovan

I was getting frustrated watching balls go up from the three-point line, when those guys are standing 1-on-1 in the post with a guy 6-6 guarding them. It's hard sometimes. I'm constantly preaching to (Green and guard Lee Humphrey), 'When you're open, let it go.' Sometimes you have to change your thought processes.

I was getting forward before I ever had the ball out, so I was late getting out of the glove, ... I was carrying the ball too long and then I had to hurry everything up.

I was getting by, but I was running a lot of long counts 3-0, 3-1. Then in that one inning, the fifth, they got a lot of balls, like grounders, through on me and they just kept doing it.

I was excited to see him hit the ball like he did. We will have to depend on him and the other guys at the top of the lineup to get on base for the other guys to drive them in.

It felt so good just to make solid contact again. I was just missing a lot of balls here the last few games. It was great to hit one solid.

It feels good. It will be a couple of weeks before I can turn a double play and take balls at shortstop.

It feels good. A big inning finally went our way. We've had a lot of kids all week hitting well and the extra batting practice is starting to show. I've never seen two grand slams in one inning in a high school game before. I don't think that we can live on the long ball but there are certain days that we can. I really believe Calvert is a better team than they showed here today.

It felt good to be back on the field and to get a chance to work out the kinks. It was good to be out there catching balls and running routes. There was some good and bad. We were getting the springtime fire out there. For the most part, I think the intensity level of everybody was high.

It felt good. The way things have been going, I've been hitting the ball well lately and I've been hitting it right at people. To finally get one in the gap, it feels good. To give us a bigger lead felt real good.

Carl Crawford

It felt good. I hit some balls hard.

It felt good. I finally got to go out there with the starting group and throw the ball around the yard. It was a good time.

It felt good but we knew they had some good shooters and would come back. They came out and obviously changed their defense in the second half because we couldn't get the ball near the basket. I was sort of waiting for them to come back.

Ben Wallace

I think our whole team has picked it up. We're getting the ball moved from side to side, forcing teams to defend, not letting teams come out and lock in on the plays we're running but force them to cover everyone on the floor. And when we do that, I think we're at our best.

I think she even scared herself today by hitting the ball so well. Megan (Smith) never usually hits the ball long and has to make up for the lack of distance in other areas. Right now, though, she's hitting the ball well.

I think school funding and funding for preschool and college are a major economic tool that the state has let the ball drop on by cutting back.

I think Palm Harbor played a better game. Their passing . . . they were just on. Any ball we sent down, they'd win it. Any ball in the box, they were tenacious.

I think Ryan knows if he's patient Mike's going to get him the ball every time he's open.

I think defensively we picked things up. We scrapped for loose balls. They beat us to loose balls in the first half. I thought down the stretch, we negated that.

It doesn't happen so frequently that we have rules. It's just common sense. With witnesses from the candidates, they were able to gather up and put (the ballot box) back together so that they could continue and maintain the integrity of the election.

Juan Encarnacion

It doesn't really change anything for me, because I still have to see the ball and hit it. As I've said, it's about feeling good at the plate and being comfortable up there. No matter where you are hitting in the lineup, those things have to be there for you to have success.

It doesn't matter what has happened to him in the past. With one swing, he can hit the ball a mile.

I think I figured it out, ... All teams that start with T give me trouble. Tampa, Toronto, Texas. But in all honesty, it's the way it goes. The balls I threw on the corners they hit and the ones over the middle they crushed. It's just one of those nights.

Andy Reid

I think I could have called his number more. We are better when we spread the ball around; I think Donovan hit 11 guys. And we are better when that happens, because it has more of an effect on the offense. I didn?t do a good enough job in that first game of mixing it up.

Tom Gordon

I think I'm throwing the ball the same way I did last year.

I think I'm a good offensive point guard. I handle the ball really well and I'm pretty physical.

Nate Robertson

I think I had life on my pitches -- I wasn't throwing beach balls up there, ... I don't think I'm tired.

Mickael Pietrus

When it's going in, I have plenty of confidence. When it's not going in, you're kind of like frustrated. You try to do everything you can to help the team, but nothing seems like it's working. I'm losing the ball -- that's not my game. I'm going to be OK. I just have to keep working.

Andy Reid

We are better when we spread the ball around. We are more effective as an offense when we do that and I didn't do a good enough job during that first game mixing it up.

We drove the ball the length of the field and scored, so that showed me that we're coming around on offense. We were fairly effective running the ball what we wanted to. I just wish we could fire on all cylinders more often.

We drove the ball into the alleys, and that brings a lot of confidence.

We dropped some balls, the kicking game wasn't very good.

We couldn't finish easy lay-ups, gave up too many steals and turned the ball over too much in the second half.