Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brittany (Kent) was huge for us tonight, as far as rebounds. She got in there and picked up some loose balls and got some shots inside and kept us in it there for a while.

Ned Yost

Boy, the infield is like concrete out there. Ground balls get by you in a hurry. We can use the good weather to get our work in but you'd like to see a little rain at night to soften up the fields a bit.

Even though the weather is nice for this time of the year, it's still too cold for these pitchers to be throwing a lot of balls outside, so we stayed in the gym this week and worked hard so when we do get outside, we will be strong and ready for the season.

Believe me, there's no sense of complacency in here at all. We're going out and giving it everything we've got. Bottom line, we're not getting a lot of love in key situations. We've had some good at-bats and hit balls hard, but we're not getting any breaks. We're going to work our way out of it.

Big power hitters can hit balls out of this ballpark. We watched it last year, we watched it this year.

Dick Advocaat

Everybody knew what to do. We got second balls well and never let them escape. We didn't give a chance away. We deserved to win. They are getting back in shape now. We still have to see the players grow and improve.

We were entrepreneurs before the word was ever invented. You had to do everything, from lining the fields to blowing the balls up to getting people in the stadiums to see us play.

We were dumping it out today. Our outside halves gave us more effort than they have been and I was pleased with that, but coverage has to be better. We were losing a lot of balls on the outside of our field and that put a lot of pressure on our defense.

We've had a handful of games where we've just had runners where they don't need to be. We've had some passed balls that have hurt us and we just can't seem to keep runners where they are.

Tom Anderson

We'll hit some balls and give these kids a chance to get their muscle memory different. Some people are naturals when it comes to hitting a golf ball and others have a little more trouble getting their swings down. Either way, they'll get feedback on things that can help their game.

Steve Spurrier

We'll have to see how it all plays out. Certainly Blake is our starter. He threw some errant balls out there today. Blake didn't play his best; he knows that. He's still the starter, but it was encouraging that Cade sort of proved that if something happens he can go play. We thought he would be. We'll try to get Cade as ready as possible. He's definitely second right now.

Nancy Lopez

Everybody was scrambling around trying to find balls for me.

Everybody goes out and stomps down the divots made by the horses. People toss balls around or hit balls with small mallets. The kids love it.

Curt Schilling

Every mistake that I make, we're paying for, ... It's a corner you try not to back yourself into, because you tend to pitch tentative, and I can't do that. I left two balls up in the zone, splits. One was the double off the wall. Another was up.

Reggie Jackson

Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you.

Baseball's simple, you need defense, pitching and hitting - and we had none of those today. Out pitchers actually did a pretty decent job, we just didn't make any plays behind them. Ohio had some balls fall in for them, but we didn't help ourselves much.

Lindsay Davenport

As the match went on, ... I felt like I was getting better rhythm and on top of the balls ? and being a little bit more consistent with my shots.

As the season progressed, it was like, 'Holy cow.' Carlos has such a nasty sinker and throws so many ground balls that he can be really confident about making the hitters put the ball in play.

At the beginning I was a little bit nervous. Didn't play that good. But then in the second set I got in the game, played some good balls and got a little bit confident.

We had passed balls and wild pitches and that was another momentum shift. In that sense, we helped them move into scoring position.

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.

Scott Baker

Tonight's game can be summed up in one word and that would be effort. We didn't talk about it but that was the key to the game. We had guys diving on the floor going for loose balls and we were coming up with them.

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.

We hit a lot of balls hard this weekend; we just it them at people. We know we'll get it all together. Our swings are starting to come there. We'll be fine. Just have to keep hitting the ball like we did this weekend.

Marty Schottenheimer

There's no question that (missing) the big-play element that he brings was obviously a factor. I know that Kerry threw a couple of balls down the field that were overthrown. Had they been thrown to Randy, maybe they wouldn't have been overthrown.

John Glenn

What comprises relaxation here is really standing on your head and looking at things from a different direction or putting balls of water out to just float right in front of you,

Scott Maddox

We just took too many strikes and swung at too many balls. Give Keegan credit. Once, they got three runs, I knew it would be an uphill battle.

Phil Garner

We had three balls that should have been caught,

We had the momentum, but we weren't putting the balls in the goal. I felt with an extra guy out there we would be able to get the game into overtime.

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.

Andrew Strauss

Watching the ball is always a good starting point.

E. B. White

We were in trouble in the early going, having hit several balls out-of-bounds,

Rick Barry

They have so fundamentally flawed techniques it's ridiculous. They shoot the ball flat. They all stand upright, there's just so many things they do incorrectly.