Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Elliott

Nicholette (Le Bel) has the knack of changing her style of play in order to keep making plays, ... and tonight's matchup called for her to tip and push the ball more.

NFA is a very quick team. Instead of trying to make short passes, we did too much dribbling and turned the ball over. I was very happy with our defense, though. We held a good NFA team to 40 points until we ran out of gas late. We're primarily playing six guys, and Browning is just coming back off the flu.

Nobody likes to lose, but when we compete like we competed, you have to feel good about it. It was a physical ballgame and I wasn't pleased with that.

Nobody can ride Ball Four like him. (He) made the horse go farther than usual.

Nobody is going to be harder on Leslie than Leslie. Unfortunately, we don't have that low post player right now we can punch the ball into to get us started.

No. 11 (Cobb) and No. 2 (Jones) are pretty good 3-point shooters, but our philosophy tonight was to keep the ball away from them, a lot. And that's one of the things I thought we did well.

Nix looks healthy. He's swinging the bat real good, this is the best I've seen him in a long time. Hopefully we can carry this through into the games. His lower half is a lot better and he's able to square up balls better.

Ninety nine times out of 100, there's no way I even put that ball in play. Somehow, it hit the barrel of my bat. I don't know why I hit it, or how it happened.

Dave Stephens

Nineteen points wasn't going to get it done for us. Nineteen points for some teams and being up by two, that's fine for some teams, but we felt the tempo wasn't in our favor and we also felt we didn't move the ball well.

Navarro is lucky we didn't pull out that ball game. We came close to pulling it out, and I feel we have a chance at the regional tournament. We have as good a bunch as anyone, and on a good day, we're better than anyone.

(Navarro) did a good job in the first half of doubling us off our ball screens. They tried to put their big (guy) on my little (guy), and once we got our guy to pull him it opened it up for everybody.

Lindsay Davenport

On the second set, I felt like I was playing well and hitting the ball well, ... First set, I just don't think either of us played all that well. ... But as the match went on, I felt like I was getting much better rhythm and on top of the balls and being a little bit more consistent with my shot.

Colin Clarke

On the road, 0-0, clean sheet with a chance to take it back home, we'll take it. It wasn't one of our better nights. We couldn't pass the ball very well. ... But we're probably happier with the result than they are.

On offense we moved the ball a lot faster which gave us a lot of open shots. And we wanted to step up our defense because that's our main specialty.

On the destination list of Washington, ... you'll have the MCI Center area, Georgetown and, now, boom, the South Capitol Street ballpark area.

Juli Inkster

On the back side I hit the ball phenomenal and gave myself a lot of chances. I didn't putt great, but I did what I needed to do.

Nick Ferguson

On that play, no one could tell me that ball wasn't mine. It just seemed it kind of floated right over the top of me. It was that type of game; things like that happen.

On the last goal Mandy sent the ball over the defense to me. I shot and it bounced off the goalie. Everybody was fighting for it. Somehow I ended up with it and shot.

Toni Kukoc

On the four-point play, I was just happy to get the ball and throw it up. And it felt pretty good.

On the norm, we don't really score that many points. But when we get nights where we can shoot the ball well, it is a different story, and we did that tonight.

Tiger Woods

On six, I got lucky. I had a gap, and I just tried to put the ball up there somewhere on the green. I had a shot to the green, I was just hoping I didn't catch a limb and it came out clean.

Sean Miller

One of the keys to us is sometimes we have some great baskets and have a real good pace to how we play on offense, and then it seems to slow down. When the offense goes into one of those droughts, we're not moving it up the floor. Not necessarily quick shooting, but just the pace. We're always better when we have a quicker pace. ... Brian (Thornton) being able to run, and Brandon Cole or Will (Caudle) being able to run when Brian's out. ... Make or miss on their end, we want to be able to get the ball up the court.

One of the reasons we didn't turn the ball over a lot is we made good decisions last year and we didn't make a lot of dangerous throws, where you would have said, 'Oh, that was lucky it didn't get intercepted. Today, we probably had a few too many of those.

One of the goals of ballet is to make it look as easy as possible, so people think it's easier than it really is.

One of their guys took a ball (with his body) at the goal line, so that saved the tie. Their whole defense played really well. They deserve credit for taking care of it.

I was impressed with (Ellis). He got the curve ball over, and he kept our hitters off balance.

Ozzie Guillen

I was impressed. The ball doesn't carry here much. The guys are swinging the bat pretty well right now.

Danny Young

I was going to tackle him. But the ball was right there. I wanted to try and get that touchdown back that was jacked from me.

Adam Everett

I was going to glove it at first, and when it hit it kind of checked up, and the next thing that went through my head was (to) make sure the ball doesn't go underneath my hand because the guy could score. I just happened to get a great grip on the ball and threw the guy out.

Dusty Baker

I was spoiled by some of the guys I had in the past, like Robby Thompson and Jeff Kent. I know the importance of that infield defense. There's more balls on the ground than in the air. Consequently, you have to play 'D' on the field.

I was spinning the ball too much. We just came out of the holidays, and we got in trouble for it. I've got confidence in my teammates. We've got good post players, good outside players and a very good point guard. With good teammates, we're going to go far. We just play good ball together and are friends.

I was real upset the way we had played the first half. We turned the ball over four times. We didn't finish plays. Macon is too talented a team to give them that many chances. In the second half, we finished plays; the guys did a great job.

John Farrell

I was really proud of the way we were distributing the ball tonight. We did a great job passing the ball into the post and I think that's what we're all about just hit the open girl and play hard on defense. Horizon has improved a lot, too, so we wanted to make sure we came in here and got the job done.