Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kickers are a little different and you've got to be careful with them because they think too much. Before this ballgame I talked to Joe and I said, 'Joe, just go out there and kick the ball. Don't think about it. Just go out and kick it because there's going to be a situation where we need you in this ballgame,' and sure enough, here it was and he came through beautifully for us.

Tommy Amaker

I would say one possession here or there was going to determine the outcome of this ballgame for either team. I thought both teams laid it on the line, put great effort out there to make things happen.

Matt Stairs

I think it's gotten past the point of frustration for us. When we make a mistake, it seems to beat us. Tonight it was an infield hit. I thought it was a good ballgame and I thought we played well, but we lost.

I think the key to the ballgame was when we made that little run. That was the run that we needed, and then we just kind of held on for dear life.

Clint Hurdle

I think you saw the passion he has for competition. The way he kept after it and kept us in the ballgame - a couple early innings could have gone south on him. He didn't let it happen.

I think winning that ballgame with only five hits gave the guys confidence to go out and swing the bats.

We've finished second in the conference two years in a row, but to get over the hurdle you've got to be able to put runs on the board. We've played a lot of low-scoring ballgames and we didn't score early in a ballgame ... so we kept coming back late.

We threw a quick pass, a fade route, and they called holding on our center. Our center didn't even have a chance to hold (because the play was so quick). It's a different ballgame (without the penalty).

I thought she was solid for them. She really kept them in the ballgame and made some big saves.

I think we just kind of got complacent a bit, but we tried to get a lot of kids in the ballgame and get them some playing time. The scoring in the fourth quarter really didn't mean that much. We just wanted to see some more kids out there and let them play.

Yvette Girouard

I think we were here ready to play and if we could have gotten a break or two here or there, the outcome could have been different. We had chances to win the ballgame and we'll have more chances down the road.

E. O. Wilson

I think what got us back in the ballgame was our press. We made them turn the ball over and it helped us get back in it.

It had been our ballgame the whole time and this is the type of ballgame we need to get used to playing. They're going to be gunning for us now, we're in first place and everyone is coming to play you and everyone wants to beat you.

Joe Gibbs

I think we all realized what was at stake. We had talked about it all week, the big ballgame for us and for them there was a lot at stake. There was a lot riding on it and we didn't play well. I think we take a long hard look at ourselves, and it certainly starts with me.

Last year, I don't think we would've won a ballgame like this. I don't think we would've been tough enough.

Last year, I don't think we would've won a ballgame like this, ... I don't think we would've been tough enough.

Bobby Bowden

Our quarterbacks had performed so well the week previous to this game in practice. Then you go in that ballgame and you look like a freshman, you know? So there's no doubt about it, now we've got to get them playing to their ability. ... And, of course, we'll try to blend our running game with it more.

Jack McKeon

If you have any chance to win a ballgame you can't let him beat you.

I just tried to keep us in the ballgame and give us a chance to win.

Willie Mays

I remember that last season I played. I went home after a ballgame one day, lay down on my bed, and tears came to my eyes. How can you explain that? You cry because you love her. I cried, I guess, because I loved baseball and I knew I had to leave it.

I just was too focused on trying to win the ballgame myself. It's a team sport, and that's how we're going to win, as a team.

I'm just really pleased with the way our kids have played so far. Really, since the first ballgame with N.C. State, we're consistently getting better. As a defense, I really like the way we're approaching things right now.

I'm seeing a degree of toughness. I'm seeing a degree of confidence that they can and will be in any ballgame they play in. I'm seeing a team that's going to rush the football as the year goes on and be able to throw it downfield as the year goes on.

I let them know that this is a totally different ballgame because the stakes are much, much higher. There are seniors on both teams who don't want their seasons to end, so they are going to play with a lot of heart.

I love it. They're hitting on all cylinders. We have a buy on the stock, and we feel the stock's worth in the mid-50s. It's a whole new ballgame in the steel industry, and the titanium industry.

The irony is while we're driving more productivity and revenue by switching to broadband POS systems, we need to be far more careful about Internet vulnerabilities. It's a whole new ballgame building an IP network for hundreds of stores that needs to function even if a broadband connection is lost, and has to protect private customer and business information, not to mention facilitate the business of managing the entire network.

The difference was the free-throw line. That's the ballgame when you lose by eight.

You can't win a ballgame averaging nine strikeouts in the lineup and that's about what we had.

Bobby Bowden

All I know is they have done what they've had to do to win. The first week was very grueling because you played two games in one week, and we came out there. Then this ballgame here, you go away from home with a rookie quarterback, and you wonder how is he going to respond to the crowd, and how is the team going to respond to the crowd. You win that ballgame and, of course, that is the main stat you want, that win. So you just say, up to this point, so far, so good. We know we've got to get better because the people we are playing are going to get better.

Bobby Bowden

A.J. will be sent home and suspended from this ballgame for violating a team rule and policy. That's about all I will say about it.

The ballgame becomes now how each of the two industries that controls a wire can determine what content, what access, at what speed consumers and technologists can offer and retrieve services over those networks,

Reggie Lee

It's tough. You can't win a ballgame with errors. Those were mental mistakes we made and we paid for them.

Every at-bat is critical in a tie ballgame like that. We kept getting guys on and in scoring position, but we just couldn't get that key hit.