Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're getting better every day, ... Tom is a great outside runner, Hunter runs the ball inside, and (fullback) Jamie Jackson gets around the blocks. And the offensive line is coming together, even though pretty much everyone is new. If we play as we've practiced, look for big improvement.

We're getting better defensively, we just can't score. We have to find someone that's going to put the ball in the hole and not turn it over.

Sean Payton

We're hoping by that next official mini-camp in early June that you're going to see him spinning the ball around and throwing it. Now to what degree and how hard and how deep, I can't tell you. I don't know that yet.

Aaron Hill

Throughout my career, I've always been the kind of guy who likes to stand towards the middle of the plate. And balls come in there.

We're putting the ball in play and making the routine plays we need to on defense.

With the price of bowling balls today, it's crazy not to maintain bowling balls.

Our kids played extremely hard, we just did not shoot the ball very well. We have to step back and look at the things we accomplished. We had a great season and the kids have a lot to be proud of.

Our intention is to keep the ball rolling and have constant promotion of the series.

John King

(Our hitters) did a good job of being selective and when they got a strike they did a good job of putting the ball in play. Didn't hit a lot of balls real, real hard but we were getting them in play.

Our guards were patient and not trying to force it inside. We moved and reversed the ball to get it to Kyle.

Our guards did a great job of listening to coach and running plays. All the ball handlers did a great job of getting me the ball when I was open.

Our guard play is pretty strong and I thought those guys did a terrific job of handling the pressure. Not only getting the ball up the floor but getting it in scoring position. That was the critical thing that we needed to do.

Overall we pitched pretty well in relief and that was a good thing to see because we weren't hitting the ball that well.

Overall, we just didn't play very well. And (CBA) shot the ball very well. It was just one of those nights when things didn't go our way.

Mike Hargrove

Our pitchers got tentative, started throwing ball one, ball two, and when you do that you're going to be in trouble.

Our team defense was very solid tonight and we caused a lot of interference in the paint. We played especially well in the second half, picking up a lot of loose balls and dominating the glass.

Our strength is our defense. We need Chris to get possession of the ball and get it to the offense.

Tony Wagner

Our satisfaction comes from seeing these kids win ball games because of all the hard work they've put in.

Our game tonight was like a roller coaster. We were up at certain points in the game and at other times we were down -- we were down to close out ball games.

Our game is small ball and the kids know that. We're able to put hitters in good counts and if we continue to get people in good situations at the plate, we're going to do well.

Overall, I was a little impatient. I didn't have a lot of life on my fastball. I got behind on a lot of counts. I left the ball up a little, too.

We did what we wanted to do and we executed well until the final 2 1/2 minutes of the first half. We just started turning the ball over, and we just continued to make the same mistakes over and over again.

Brian Urlacher

We did what we said we were going to do, ... We got in his (Harrington's) face, and we got some pressure on him and got him to throw the ball sometimes when he didn't want to. And we got some takeaways -- what we've got to do every week.

When a team shoots the ball like that it just makes it very difficult. We just did a poor job of number one, sustaining any intensity, and then we did a poor job of defending them.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

When a president promises something beyond his years in office, he is fundamentally unaccountable. It is not his budget that must finish the job. Another president inherits the problem, and it becomes a ball too easily dropped, a plan too easily abandoned, a dream too readily deferred.

We have looked good in practice all week. We didn't look good tonight though. Our defense did look good on occasions tonight and had some big stops. Unfortunately we turned the ball over to many times.

Iris Apfel

I live in the Dark Ages, the 17th century. Actually, I would have loved to be in Paris in the early 20th century when the Ballets Russes were there and Chanel was designing.

We didn't do anything different (on defense). We continue to try to work and enhance our pass rush. I think we've improved there. We got on top of some balls that got away from Drew and we made some plays on them.

Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface.

Sid Waddell

I'm the world's worst after-dinner speaker. I need pictures to respond to. I was the voice of the lottery balls once and got the sack.

Atul Gawande

I believe that one version of the good in life can be defined by the moments I sometimes had playing tennis as a sixteen-year-old. You'd be out on the court and for an hour, two hours, sometimes an entire roasting hot day, and every single thing you hit would go in. Hit that ball as hard as you wanted, wherever you wanted, and it went in.

We would like to cut down on the strikeouts, but that will come through facing live pitching. We just didn't put the ball in play when we needed to.

We don't have tremendous offense, but our starters have been trying to keep us in the ball game.