Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Carlisle

He's struggled lately shooting the ball and I was concerned he was due to come out of it. He's playing very well. What he's doing defensively has everybody in the league taking notice.

Dusty Baker

He's strong. He's going to love Wrigley Field. He has tremendous sock to left field and to left-center. He doesn't hit the ball up in the air. He keeps it relatively low. The ball jumps off his bat. So far I like his swing. He can hit that fastball, which is where it starts.

Willie McGinest

He's strong. He's a big guy. He can throw the ball downfield. He can scramble.

He's strong-armed and impressive. He can throw the ball 55 to 60 yards.

He's stinking strong. He's starting to put a better bat on the ball and starting to be more selective at the plate. That's encouraging when a guy's big and strong like that. His strength is in the gaps, he can put one out (in the gaps). If he can learn to wait and trust that he's going to get that pitch to drive, good things will happen.

Bob Hill

He's feeling comfortable with how we want to play, and you're going to see him get better. He's so fast with the ball that our guys need to get used to him. But the key thing is that he wants to be here and he's going to be here for a while.

Clint Hurdle

He's exhibited major-league power in the minor leagues and we've seen some flashes of it at this level. He's working hard in (batting practice) and he's working hard in the cage and hitting the ball hard where it's pitched.

John Gibbons

He settled in with that breaking ball (after the first inning) and we couldn't do much with it.

He serves a good ball and is a good passer, ... We have a few things to work on but he can play football.

Patrick Crayton

He's either going to start taking care of the ball or he's going to start watching.

Rudy Gay

He sees the floor better than a lot of point guards. He makes it a lot easier for us. Sometimes you won't even think you're open, but our reaction is to have our hands up and be ready for the ball. Then the ball just winds up in there.

He's the greatest player in the world right now. Both sides of the ball -- offensively, defensively -- he's playing great.

He's the best receiver in the league from what I see. He's the kind of guy where you just got to throw the ball in his vicinity.

Jamie Dixon

He's just doing such a good job of keeping the ball up high. You talk about it a lot, but to consistently do it is something else.

Chris Higgins

He's just been incredible for us. What else can you say really? Huey is seeing the puck so well it's like he's stopping a beach ball out there.

He's just a man. The ball really jumps off his bat. It's unusual for someone that age.

He's just a load in there. We did a good job of putting pressure on the ball in the first half and keeping their guards from being able to get the ball in to him clean, but in the second half they did a better job of finding him.

Landon Donovan

He's just a good soccer player, ... He's been around for a long time. He knows where the ball should go, and he makes it happen. And I know that if I make a good run and get in the right position, he's going to find me.

He's just a ball hog. He probably could be our best player on offense, but we need him on defense.

Rahul Dravid

He sized up the situation very early on. There was help for the bowlers when the ball was hard and new and he knew he had to play cautiously. He controlled the innings beautifully. It was one of the best innings of several played by him on a difficult pitch. It was a special one.

He's in there to drive in runs. He's been our unofficial leader and he keeps playing well and putting the ball in play. You know, he's doing a really good job.

Hortonville showed us the danger of a No. 7 seed coming into your place with nothing to lose and just tossing up the ball and having shots go in. Offensively we got what we wanted, but overall we didn't execute well. We're going to need to show a lot more urgency from the start or it will be all over in a hurry.

Hope he don't feel like shooting the ball every time he touches it.

Hopefully, we're ready to play our best basketball. We're moving the ball better, playing better defense ? it's a process through the year.

Hopefully we'll learn from this and get better. You've got to make free throws to close out games and we didn't do that. We make some more free throws and don't turn the ball over, we win the game by a lot more than we did.

How do you call an illegal screen up on top that?s away from the ball when there?s nothing there? Yeah, there was a little brush back, but then they don?t call a charge when a guy gets plowed over?

How about that No. 10. Can she shoot the ball or what? And we knew it. We knew it. That's pretty scary.

How about Eric Maynor? We just put the ball in his hands, and he made big plays.

Houston and Dallas are going to make mistakes because they're young quarterbacks. Houston came back and threw some great passes in the third quarter. Dallas didn't tuck the ball away and I know he's learned a lesson there and I think he will be better because of it.

How can you not miss a conference player of the year? On the other hand, I think we'll be fine without him, and if the ball gets spread around more and we still win, that's what counts.

He's out there to listen, out there to throw the ball and do what he needs to do. When he speaks up it's a surprise.

He's our stopper. He's taken the ball in all our big games.

He's our shooter. He came in, shot the ball well and played good defense.