Famous Quotes & Sayings

Offensively, I thought we did a good job all day. We hit a lot of balls right at people. It was a situation where we had some unfortunate things happen to us. The big difference is that we have to play defense.

Al Franken

I'm a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I'm invited to all the inaugural balls.

Donald Young

When I'm up on them, they play better, ... When I was up two set points in my pro match, they had two big serves. ... In the juniors I get a lot of balls back and make them play.

Austin Ainge

We got a lot of loose balls and tipped rebounds. Our big guys did a good job down low. That ... proved to be the difference in the game.

We hit a lot of balls out of bounds today. That's not really like us. I hope we get settled down by the time the playoffs start.

Allen Iverson

One of the things you have to learn is that you don't have to have the ball all the time to be effective.

Randy Johnson

I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.

Second and third with nobody out and a three-run lead, you want to trade some outs for some runs there. I was able to get three ground balls and get out of it and secure the win. It doesn't look pretty in the box score, but I think I did my job.

There are times he'd rather not play (a round). He'll go out and hit 300 balls and putt for two hours.

We made a mistake on the first play, and when you score on the first play you get momentum going. There's no doubt about that. They did a nice job, there's no question about that. We got some things to work on. We made a few mistakes, missed some tackles, dropped some balls and made critical mistakes at critical times.

We made a lot of unforced errors on balls that we normally would play right. We've had a difficult time passing the ball this year so we're going to work on that in practice.

My swing feels good. Last night (Friday), I missed a home run by just a couple of feet. And the game before that, I hit a couple of balls hard. I don't feel I'm in a slump. I still feel every time I'm out there that I'm going to hit a home run.

Dusty Baker

I was spoiled by some of the guys I had in the past, like Robby Thompson and Jeff Kent. I know the importance of that infield defense. There's more balls on the ground than in the air. Consequently, you have to play 'D' on the field.

Jason Giambi

I got those pretty good. It's been a long time since I've hit balls like that. The ball doesn't usually carry here that well.

Kim Clijsters

She's probably the best defending player out there at the moment, ... She's very fit. She just has this incredible touch with her hands, especially with her slice. I mean, she can just keep getting those balls back.

Fiona Shaw

I had a ball doing Harry Potter.

Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.

It is always good when you can get a lot of guys to catch a lot of balls. It is hard for the defense to key in on one or two guys.

J. J. Johnson

We never really got into it offensively. We hit a few balls decent, but we couldn't get into it.

Kay Yow

That was the main thing I wanted them to focus on was not to letup on the defensive end. Play great defense, box out and they got their hands on some balls down the stretch playing great defense. That really helped save the game for us.

Matt Hasselbeck

That's unfortunate because, in the biggest game of your life, you want to play with the balls you've been playing with all season.

Look at the runs he gave up, they were two breaking balls over the plate, ... He made a couple of breaking ball mistakes and that's two extra runs.

I was throwing strikes and getting ahead. All of a sudden, I threw like eight (nine) balls in a row and I was like, 'What's going on?' I felt fine. I don't know what happened.

Billy Donovan

I was getting frustrated watching balls go up from the three-point line, when those guys are standing 1-on-1 in the post with a guy 6-6 guarding them. It's hard sometimes. I'm constantly preaching to (Green and guard Lee Humphrey), 'When you're open, let it go.' Sometimes you have to change your thought processes.

It feels good. It will be a couple of weeks before I can turn a double play and take balls at shortstop.

We're definitely excited for our season to start. Everybody's itching to get outside and get some games in. We would like to get outside and get more practice in, but the weather just hasn't been nice enough yet. The ground is still frozen, which makes doing anything other than shagging down fly balls pretty hard. Hopefully when we head to Colorado, we'll have nice weather. We're all definitely looking forward to the trip.

We ham-and-egged it pretty good. I hit the tee balls today, Steve stuck it close and we both made our fair share of putts.

We had a mindset coming into the game, 'See the pitch and rip it,' and don't swing at balls.

We had a lot of long rallies. They were digging up a lot of our balls.

Ron Gardenhire

I think he's been just missing some balls. I can show you struggling, if you want to see some highlights. He's really close to whacking it pretty good. I don't worry about him. He's a veteran. He knows how to hit.

Pacman Jones

I stood up well. He caught two balls on me, both of them curls, no deep balls. I'm happy with my play for the most part. I'm getting better every game.

Jason Marquis

I thought I was on top of my game. I was a little quick early, throwing the balls a little too down in the zone, but I was able to make the adjustments.

We dropped some balls, the kicking game wasn't very good.