Famous Quotes & Sayings

Second base has been a problem spot for us. Chase did a good job and caught a couple of balls there that we hadn't been getting to in games. Hannah played real well at short. No errors at all. You get no errors and you are going to win most of your games.

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.

Maria Sharapova

She tried to mix it up a little at the end of the first set and I knew it would be physically harder. Mentally, I told myself it doesn't matter how many balls it takes, you're going to do everything possible to get one more ball back.

She was hitting balls very deep. I tried to go to the net, which is my game, but I just couldn't do that.

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.

She's got a lot of rise balls and people were swinging at them. I was trying to lay off them.

Shannon Stewart

When he hit it, I had a good break on it. It seemed like one of those balls that kept going downward as I got closer, and then I was caught. I thought I'd have a chance to dive and catch it, but then as I did that, it pushed away from me.

Doug Harvey

Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it's all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter.

Dennis Eckersley

But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.

Maybe you just want to be daring and put in a few bowling balls instead of traditional gazing globes.

The outfield may not be as fast as I would like. I would hope they will make the routine plays and every once in a while make a spectacular play. We may not be able to run down balls hit in the gaps, but hopefully we won't drop the routine fly ball, either.

We need to be getting loose balls and long rebounds and our guards haven't taken it upon themselves to be that aggressive. The ruggedness you need for guards...as a whole, we don't have it yet.

When you bring a guy in like Santana, you have to make sure he's taken care of and he's going to get the number of catches and balls that a guy that they brought in deserves, ... For him it was good and for me to come back to the situation I'm in, I'm not a featured guy, but I'm a piece of the puzzle in this offence and there's opportunity for me to make plays and help this team win.

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

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.

I got my fingertips on it. I had a tough time picking up those low balls today.

I got hit a with a few balls and instead of deflecting out, they deflected in. It was sort of the way the day went.

J. J. Johnson

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

Bill Shankly

If you're not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we'll discuss your options afterwards.

Bill Dickey

If I were catching blindfolded, I'd always know when it was Foxx who connected. He hit the ball harder than anyone else.

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.

Ryan Klesko

It could take a week, it could take a few days -- you never know. It's just my timing. My timing's been off. But I feel like it's coming. I've hit some balls hard. That's encouraging.

Ryan Klesko

It could take a week, it could take a few days -- you never know, ... It's just my timing. My timing's been off. But I feel like it's coming. I've hit some balls hard. That's encouraging.

Tim McCarver

Look at Benito Santiago. When he first signed, there was definitely a language barrier. But he could throw, and if you can do that and block the balls in the dirt, that speaks volumes.

We knew they didn't set the middles all that much and that's one of our weaker points, be able to block the middle. They dug a lot of balls and we weren't able to step it up with our passing.

Dale Steyn

We only need three more wickets and the way the deck is playing it could be the first three balls tomorrow morning.

With a guy like that, you expect a lot of ground balls.

At halftime we talked about how they had to set a personal goal of getting to ground balls with the mindset that every ground ball belongs to us.

At first, when they got to the green they saw the two balls from Connecticut and Sacred Heart. When Mike didn't see his ball, he thought he hit the ball long, because he had used a 3-wood.

Paul Johnson

Absolutely. You can't be 33-0 without good coaching, good kids. I thought fundamentally they did some things very well, and they got all the loose balls we didn't get. ... Today, the better team won, I have no problem with that.

Jaret Wright

A bat, two balls -- I don't know. When it keeps happening, it's definitely frustrating.

Troy Glaus

A couple of balls found some holes and I hit a couple on the barrel. It was nice; it's been a while.

Dusty Baker

A couple of balls caught too much of the plate early, ... but we were still in the ballgame. We ended up giving away 4 runs on defense. You can't give away runs in the big leagues, and we didn't play very good defense today.