Famous Quotes & Sayings

The floodgates opened in the sixth. They made the errors and we kept pounding the ball harder and harder.

Darren Fletcher

You can see the progress we are making under Walter and if we can match that work rate and spirit with a bit more quality in terms of retaining the ball and creating chances, then we can go far as a team.

You can see the difference. It helps with passing the ball and defensively, with their peripheral vision.

DeShawn Stevenson

You can see on the court that everybody's happy with each other. Everybody's passing the ball to each other. There's good vibes.

Willie Bloomquist

You don't have time to think about things with something like that. It's just instinct. I saw the ball and just ran to a spot where I thought I had a shot at it.

Ann Hood

As an adult, I took ballet classes three times a week, and I believed it gave me better posture, a stronger body, and made me more graceful.

We're like sharks in the water when they smell blood. When they started turning the ball over, that's what we feed off of. When they turned it over, everybody raised their energy level up and started attacking.

Adrian Peterson

We're not going to be able to run the ball on every team. We're not going to be able to do that, ... We've got to establish a passing game, and I feel like once we do that, then this team might be unstoppable.

We set a priority on trying to get ball possession and more control into our game. In the past, we have hit the long ball quite often. Now we are trying to settle it down. And it showed a little bit today.

We served aggressively enough that sometimes, it was hard for them to get her the ball. We knew that we were not stronger than her, but we were maybe quicker, so we wanted to get the ball up and down fast - because she's a very good blocker, too - so we went with the first tempo. Sometimes, it's a very good idea to go right at their strength.

We still have not gotten there shooting the ball yet.

We still have a lot of things to do to come together to get to where we want to be. We need to move the ball better on offense. We try to do too much on our own sometimes, and we are holding the ball too long and giving the defense a chance.

We still had some opportunities, but I thought that there were a couple times when we cut it close and we had some good looks at it, but the ball just didn't roll in. We got close to the mountain, but we couldn't get on top of it.

We still had a chance in both games (in the last inning) to get out of it with double plays when we got ground balls and just didn't come through.

We still didn't run the ball the way I would like to see us run it. And I hate to go back to the inexperience thing but that's part of it.

Danny Green

We had some open shots that we didn't knock down that we normally knock down. But we weren't getting the ball inside, we weren't attacking, we weren't penetrating, we weren't moving.

We had some huge hits. (Curtis, Williams) were our eight and nine hitters, who just stayed in there and battled. A lot of balls had eyes for us. It just must have been our day.

We had some hits but we couldn't get that clutch to get things going and score some runs. We didn't hit it to the right part of the park. Our deep balls were hit to left and the deepest part in right center.

We had some great shots, we just couldn't knock them down. We were moving the ball well, we just didn't knock them down.

James Madison

We had some great set-ups with Inge and Jessica Miller in the middle, ... Inge gets better and better everyday. I think at first she had to get used to what was going on, but she is really starting to move the ball well and ignite our attack.

We had some great chances and we just missed. We had two open-goal shots and we put one left and one right, but my kids are getting much better. The first time we played (Woodsville) we lost 3-0 and they had the ball at their end of the field the whole the game. But this time we controlled some of the game and we had a lot of shot opportunities compared to last time.

We had some good practices this week and it definitely showed. It was a good game. They hit the ball well and we hit the ball well. We had some key defensive plays including three double plays to end innings.

We had some good opportunities, with free throws and short jumpers, but I think we were a little bit fatigued. Our kids played an outstanding ball game, especially after getting down so early. We still had a chance to win the game.

Rick Adelman

(Webber) rebounded the ball well. Chris is always going to make shots because he has a great feel for the game. I thought he played well.

Those fundamental things can be the difference. When you have a pitcher throwing a good ball game, you have to back him up. We had a couple of chances to get some insurance runs.

This season has gone really good. It's the best season for me I think. I've been hitting the ball really well this year.

This season has been very exciting. I have just been seeing the ball real well. I am just real comfortable seeing the ball right now.

This says the U.S. consumer is still in the ball game and playing like a champion.

Those are four talented, experienced kids. They know how to possess the ball and dictate the tempo of the game.

Ozzie Guillen

Was I real upset about it? Yes. Sometimes you have to be careful with who you listen to. Sometimes you listen to the people that think it's right for them and forget about the kid. Winter ball is over, and I think they punished him for that. I'm not going to take anything away from this kid to make the club.

We actually thrive off some pressure . . . because we feel we can get the ball into Rae Lin and others. And once we get past that first wave, we just do a fantastic job of running our lanes and, for the most part, finishing.

Tomorrow is a new day and it takes one ball to get you out but I am feeling confident and a double hundred is a possibility.

Willie Randolph

Tommy threw the ball well again, but Jason Schmidt pitched well, too. He made the pitches when he had to.