Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jaret Wright

It's a pitcher's worst nightmare, ... To throw a ball and the next thing you know, it's right on you.

Rondell White

It's a pitchers' league. It's real tough. I hit four. People try to hit line drives. At night, the ball doesn't travel much. I can't explain it.

Ernie Els

It's a real confidence builder after such a long layoff. I was swinging the club well and hitting the ball great, and I was delighted to be back in contention.

Larry Brown

It's a quality win for us on the road. We moved the ball great and got a lot of open shots because we gave the ball up. Controlling the tempo on the road is the way we've got to play ... You look at the stat sheet, and the nicest thing for me is I feel like a lot of people are playing together and trying to make everybody better.

Jeff Pentland

It's a really good sign that he's hitting. He left hitting the ball pretty good. He was hitting it long ... and far.

It's a reality. This team runs the ball very well, and they have the right personnel for the system that they have. So definitely if we don't stop this run, we're not going to win this game.

Mardy Fish

I tried everything. I tried serving and volleying. You know, I tried coming in on a lot of balls. I tried to stay back a lot... but he had the answers.

Mardy Fish

I tried everything, ... I tried serving and volleying. You know, I tried coming in on a lot of balls. I tried to stay back a lot... but he had the answers.

It really meant a lot to me that he did that. I just want to put it in some of the older guys' hands. If he felt good and could put the ball in the gap, I want him to do that. Well, he didn't feel comfortable, and he took the bunt and sacrificed himself for the team.

It really don't change it much. They really weren't throwing the ball a whole heck of a lot to begin with anyway. So I don't think that's going to change our preparation any.

Gloria Trevi

It really surprised me that ... Mexican justice can recognize when there is no reason to convict somebody, and you've got to have balls to do that,

I tried to treat it like a regular game, and not stress too much about competition or the fact that these guys are Triple-A ball players. I just wanted to come in here and have some fun, and I still wanted to have some quality at-bats before this weekend.

Chris Hernandez

I tried to hold the ball a little longer and get a shooter's touch on it.

Jake Delhomme

I tried to get the ball out of my hands quick today.

I tried to get the ball in the glove. I didn't have a chance. Everything seemed to go their way.

John Cole

It really comes down to pitching and defense. We have to keep the ball down, and when they hit it, we have to catch it. We haven't done that, and that's why we're struggling.

It really boiled down to us turning the ball over in some clutch situations. We had a six point lead, with the ball, with just over a minute to play. We just didn't cap it off like we needed to.

I travel all over the country and I don't know if you can see another city where literally every fan wears the team colors the way Cardinals fans do. We saw people outside our hotel at 9 in the morning walking around in Cardinals clothes. I think that's what strikes me even more than the ballpark -- the fans here.

Joey Harrington

I truly believe Kevin is the key to us. You look at the end of last year. When Kevin was running the ball like he was, things just opened up. If things go as planned, teams won't be able to play us like they have the last couple of years.

Dee Brown

It opens up a lot of things. We push the ball and put pressure on the other team to get easy buckets. I think it opened up the game for us.

I took us from possibly winning the ballgame to losing it.

It's a huge game, not only because it's Homecoming, but beating someone as highly ranked as Beckley gives you huge bonus (ratings) points because you know they are only going to continue to win more ball games.

Dwyane Wade

It's a little sore, as expected. Playing a lot of minutes. I had the ball in my hand a lot, jumping on it a lot. But it's getting better daily.

It's a little of both. ... It's upsetting and disappointing. We have a 6-5 lead and we go to Schmidgall. ... I expect to win the ball game. We had Bobby Mahon ready to throw the ninth inning in a close situation. ... We just missed our spots today.

It never occurs to Arnold that the ball won't go in the hole, but I'm always surprised when it does.

Gene Mauch

He (Sandy Koufax) throws a 'radio ball,' a pitch you hear, but you don't see.

Jennie Finch

Throwing a ball is not natural, whether it's overhand or underhand.

Jennie Finch

Got any pitches? I got five pitches-rise-ball, curveball, screwball, drop-ball and changeup.

Jennifer Aniston

When I was 22, I was having a ball!

Jasper Johns

Put a lot of paint & a wooden ball or other object on a board. Push to the other end of the board. Use this in a painting. - ruler on board.

Jason Terry

Obviously, I know what I'm best at: catch-and-shoot. But I can put the ball on the floor.

You take away the penalties and dropped balls and we've been pretty efficient on offense, ... We have to clean that up.

Bobby Bowden

You sure would like to (get Lee in the game), ... We haven't gotten control of a ballgame enough to get him the work that I would like to get him. We might force ourselves to do it earlier this week.