Quotes about ball
ball both forward great hits matter player players playing top
Tommy's a great player who hits the ball so clean, ... We're both big servers. I look forward to playing him. No matter what his ranking is, he's one of the top players in the world. James Blake
ball conditions deserves gets knows style win works
Tommy has perfected a ball and style that works well on all conditions and he knows how to win on TV. He deserves all he gets and has to be one of the best, now and in the future.
ball closer command miss needs pinpoint plate regardless swing throw
To me, your closer needs to be able to throw the ball over the plate regardless of what he is throwing, ... If you don't have pinpoint command you need to have an out pitch, a swing and miss pitch.
ball break either good job outside reverse shoot
To break a zone, you have to be able to shoot from the outside or reverse the ball and get to the baseline, and then go inside. We did not do a good job of that either game.
ball guys percent running
To Brandon's credit, he was running hard. You often see guys going 60 percent on a ball like that, and they don't score.
ball good secret starts
It's not a secret that when the ball starts going through the hoop good things happen.
ball eat
It's not fun. But we can't quit. We still have a lot of ball left. We can't let this eat at us. Adam LaRoche
ball bottom care decide defense gets job line means offense passing players plays points run running score sent shut simply
It's not for the players to decide what plays should be called. Our job simply is to run the plays that are sent in. But I will tell you this, as I've said all along, the bottom line with me is that I want to win. I don't care if the offense gets shut out and the defense has to score all the points in the game. I just want to win. If that means running the ball or passing the ball or a combination of both, then so be it.
ball defense lie limit offense ok pressure
It's not an issue. And it won't be. We're all in this together. We, as a defense, know what we have to do. I won't lie to you and say there isn't more pressure on us, because there is. Deservedly so. Our quarterback went down. It's up to us to make sure we get the ball back for the offense and limit the scoring. We'll be OK if we do that.
ball came defense exactly excuse execute game gave great kids offense special sure turn
It's not an excuse but it's a reason. I thought our kids gave a great effort. Our game plan, we did exactly what we wanted to do. We relied on our defense and our special teams. We wanted to make sure our offense didn't turn the ball over. We just didn't execute when it came time. Chuck D.
ball effort game happens learn next ourselves players position win
Effort was there and we put ourselves in position to win a big ball game we were right there. We'll learn from it and we have all of our players back next year, so we'll see what happens from here on out.
ball club foundation good together
Ed Wade put together the foundation of a good ball club here, Pat Gillick
ball eddie great
Eddie did a great job. He was really on the ball and he was focused.
ball bats college coming companies farther following line nobody seems series supposedly top
Each one has its own gimmick. You see all the new bats during the College World Series and that's the new line for the following (prep) season. You've got the top of the line all the way down to the ones that supposedly aren't as good. What's the difference? Price? Nobody seems to know the answers. The companies say there are differences, but I don't think I see the ball going any farther or coming off the bat any faster.
ball feeling leave needs offensive open teach
Everyone is feeling their own way at the offensive end. It's been nice. But I don't want to leave out Becca Teach and Lindsey Jones. They are getting the ball to where it needs to be and getting everyone open looks.
ball battle defensive detroit knows san
Everyone knows that when San Antonio and Detroit play, it's going to be a battle on the defensive end. The thing that we wanted to do is really concentrate on rebounding the ball and not let them get second-chance opportunities. Tayshaun Prince
ball cut eight hit kids tough
Every one of these kids can hit the ball well. I have to cut eight kids to get down to 14 and they are making it tough on me.
ball base coming everybody guys jobs putting scoring supposed
Everyone is doing what they're supposed to do. Guys around our big guys are getting on base and into scoring position, and our big guys are putting the ball in play and coming through. Everybody is doing their jobs offensively. Mike Hargrove
ball guys hoping league nights shoot shooting
Everyone in this league can play. We're just hoping that one of these nights we have one of our guys shoot like that. He was really shooting the ball well.
ball chance contact feeling groove quite
Everyone got a chance to make contact with the ball and we are feeling the groove now. I'm the only one not quite feeling it yet. Ichiro Suzuki
ball consistency defense share
Everyone contributes on our team. We share the ball and have started to play defense with more consistency and aggressiveness lately. Brian Smith
ball games good
Every once in a while you have games like this. We're still a good ball club, and you just have to take the good with the bad.
ball battle chance finally league move offensive physical prove run win
Every offensive lineman in the league is going to tell you that all they want to do is run the ball. With a back like Clinton, we just wanted a chance to prove that we could win the physical battle and move the ball on the ground. We finally got the chance.
ball bat everybody jumps negatively player small taken talked
Everybody I talked to -- and this shouldn't be taken negatively -- I've never been around a player that small who has that much bat speed, that much hand-eye coordination, that much power. The ball jumps off his bat.
ball everybody kids plays
Everybody plays baseball. Little kids have a ball and a bat. Felix Pie
ball cut everybody run tried
Everybody overpursued the play and I just tried to cut back and give it all I got, ... We hadnt run the ball like we did today. Kevin Richardson
ball everybody good hits hour middle miles movement per pitcher pop solid struggled throwing
Everybody made good contact. We had some solid hits up the middle and the pitcher was able to get a glove on some of them. She was throwing 50 miles per hour ? you need to be (throwing) 55 to get much movement on the ball ? and 48-50 we've always struggled hitting. We'll pop it up. Tonight, we showed we could make the adjustments. Curt Smith
ball everybody hitting
Everybody was hitting the ball that inning for us.
ball beginning good passing sad vibes
Everybody's happy, we're passing the ball to each other and there are a lot of good vibes right now. It's sad because we could have done this at the beginning of the season. DeShawn Stevenson
ball game offensive past run shocked three weeks
Everybody's been criticizing our offensive line, but these past three weeks we've been practicing, we've been able to run the ball. I will be really shocked if we come into this game and we don't run the ball really, really well.
ball good group guards hopefully kids lose matter michael next push ready rely returning road role somebody step tim year
The big kids rely so much on the guards because it doesn't matter how good they are if they can't get them the ball where they need it, you've got a problem. Hopefully down the road they can contribute. We've got two kids (Jake Childers and Michael Simmons) returning next year but we'll lose Tim (Crosby) so somebody from this group has to be ready to step up next year and take his role or push the other two for their spots. You can never have enough depth, especially inside.
ball inside key mitchell post sure
The big key for us is getting the ball inside offensively to our big post players. That's going to be a real big key. I'm sure Mitchell will try some different things to try and take some of that away from us. Terry Becker
ball nice popping runs settle top
The big inning was nice because we had been popping the ball up for two innings. Then we started to get on top of the ball, we scored some runs and everyone started to settle down.