Famous Quotes & Sayings

That's fine. We're just going out there and trying to get the ball back for them as many times as possible. That's all we care about. What they do with the ball is the offense's prerogative.

That's not what I wanted. I want a ball-control offense and a stifling defense. I want to run the ball right at people. That's just me. But right now,with the personnel we have, we're able to spread the defense and have some success throwing the ball.

That's not typical. He'll be OK. Tough grip on the ball today and he wasn't coming down right on his front foot, which was causing his control problems. I'm not too worried about him.

That's not the way you want to get an out. I saw it the whole way, but a lot of times that ball hits off your glove and bounces away.

Brad Soderberg

That's not the way we scripted the game to start. It just snowballed from there. One of the keys was for us to shoot the ball well early so we didn't have that self-perpetuating problem. This has happened to us before where we get off to a poor shooting start, and we really have a hard time turning the tide.

That's not the way we're coached. Coaches stress ball security. Those are the things we've got to fix. A lot of guys are down. The defense, they're playing their hearts out, and when the offense can't produce they feel pretty bad.

That's not the way I'd rather have it. I'd rather have 7 or 8 guys throwing the ball really well, with four very solid starters.

Nick Ferguson

That's how the game goes. Sometimes it bounces your way and you make a play that play. We didn't have the ball bounce our way and we had that this year. It just so happens in this particular game we didn't get a lot of that. I thought Champ was going to make another spectacular play like he has all year, but he didn't make the play.

That shows the true sign of a corner, a guy that continues to battle, ... No matter how many times they throw the ball at you, you're not going to back down. He went out there and he battled. He was truly battle tested for the whole game.

That shows that we're getting tough points, blue-collar type things, inside. We're taking the ball strong to the basket, and that's really, really important. It's critical.

That showed us where we really are. Wisconsin really showed us our strengths and weaknesses. That we can have more control of the ball and play more possession not just kick it. Last year we used to just kick it and let me and Alexandra run on to it.

That sixth inning, I got the ball up a little bit and they were hitting it pretty hard.

That's impressive. To win a game without striking out kids, that means you're fielding the ball. They hit the ball decent on us.

Michael Vick

That shook me up a little bit. Now, I'm trying to protect myself. I'll do anything possible, whether it's getting the ball out of my hand or going down if I have to. If I've got to take the sack, I'll take the sack.

That's his game to determine at that point. You take him out of the game like that there, you bring in the bullpen and a mistake is made, a ball gets hit in the gap, and he's the pitcher of record in the losing decision, and he got to watch it on the other side of the dugout. I don't handle pitching that way.

That's kind of what we like to do, control the ball in the Wing T, ... It's hard to stop. Nobody has stopped it all year.

Maurice Cheeks

That one hurts. It hurts because we fought our game. We were fighting up hill all game and we finally get it and we are up one, ball out on the side and we gave up a lay-up. I don't mind getting beat, shooting a jump shot, but we gave up a lay-up.

That night I really got a chance to see him. He gave up a home run, but I told him he's going to see the ball go out of the park. But he stood in there and he fought.

That game was the story of our day. If that one ball rolls over the net (at game point), it's a whole different story. Unfortunately we didn't have it today, but it was a good season.

John Smoltz

That game showed me if you put the ball in the right spot and trust it, you can get guys out.

Caron Butler

All ball. I had all ball. I had my hand on top of the ball and he just swung his hands everywhere. Kobe gets that call.

A little more trying to keep his hand away from his head when he loads the ball up on his delivery to the plate. When you look at Mark the first couple years here, you look at the way he released the ball at the end of his delivery and it was pretty easy. You didn't see a lot of effort.

Phil Garner

The mistake we make is walking Edmonds. You have to let Edmonds hit the ball in the next count. You can't walk him, and Brad knows that.

You're so far behind the eight ball before you come in, and then you don't do as well, ... Then your confidence suffers. In some cases, you don't get a guy back until the next year. I think that's a gigantic factor.

Ron Gardenhire

You're playing in between so if he hits the ball hard you have a chance to turn a double play. But he hit a little topper that you're not going to be able to do much with.

You're passing the ball around, getting assists, scoring points, getting turnovers, it's a lot of fun. Especially when you see the points start racking up (on the scoreboard).

Dusty Baker

(Zambrano) struggled early. He made a couple young mistakes. I guess that comes with young players. He started working his breaking ball and had them off-balance. In the sixth and seventh, he probably had his best stuff. Fortunately, we got a couple runs in the top of the seventh.

Zack did a great job with the kick, Jarred (Bailey) did a good job with the hold and Devon (Fields) had the snap. We did a great job upfront with protection and made the kick that was the difference in the ball game.

Zach played outstanding. We didn't know if they had guys who could guard us inside. Zach was a huge difference. Thank God for Zach. Other than him, we didn't shoot the ball well.

Michael Robinson

You would think he's a fifth-year senior. He always wants the ball and wants to make plays, and that's what's been missing around here.

You would love for (Robertson) to be hitting .300 with a lot of walks. He's hit the ball hard. Hopefully they'll start finding some holes.

Jay Haas

You would expect to have a lot of chances here because the course is short. I have made a couple of mistakes of where I put the ball and in that regard it hurts me that I haven't played here before.

You walk into camp with seven guys who can start, and now you're down to six. Then after Wednesday you're down to five. Starting pitching is a concern. Tony's not really a setback. He's going to be under a pitch count. He's going to get the ball on a regular basis like he would get it here. To be honest, I don't see any effect on that.