Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

One evening, cannon balls dropped on the floor,

Tommy Haas

It is always tough to play someone you haven't played before. Tonight was quite cool and the balls were quite heavy and it didn't seem like they were going anywhere. He let go in the second and I put it up a notch.

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.

Just a nightmare of a day. I left a lot of balls over the plate, and they did what you are supposed to do with balls over the plate.

Ron Gardenhire

Last season, we hurt ourselves on the relays throwing home and balls getting through the infield. We just can't give away runs with this pitching staff. It's too good. So we needed that type of strong defense.

Scott Hatteberg

I saw (the ball) pretty good. Maybe he left some balls over the plate that he probably didn't place where he wanted to. But pitchers are going to do that. You've just got to not miss it when they do.

Felipe Alou

I saw balls that were hit where he had to run and stop. I didn't see much favoring in the knee. He's so much better than he was in spring training. That was a real workout.

Ben Roethlisberger

People need to realize, and I know they won't, that there was 45 mph winds out there, and it was tough, ... A lot of those plays were not (Tommy's) fault. The wind was knocking the balls down. There was no way he should have got the criticism he did.

People might wonder why we weren't up there taking a pitch in the seventh. Well, if you get first pitch fastball down the middle, we're going to hack. The disappointing part was we didn't get on top of the ball and hit ground balls and line drives the last couple of innings.

Stephanie Burnett hit a great ball. We hit the balls the rest of the innings, it's just we hit it right to them.

John Gibbons

Some guys get by with a lot of hard-hit balls that are outs, they get a ton of runs scored for them. You look further than just results. You see what they guy's featuring and that will tell you everything.

That could explain why he threw so many high balls this season.

My teammates were open. That's my game. I was going to the hole, chasing down loose balls, doing whatever I had to help the team win.

Glenn Reynolds

My own take: Some of the nitpicking and complaining may well be justified, even beyond the inevitable dropped balls in something like this. But there will be plenty of time for that later. Right now, people should be focusing on constructive action, not point-scoring.

Jess Glynne

My nan tells me to eat her fish balls and not drink alcohol. I'd rather have the fish balls.

Lyle Overbay

Location. He's down, he's away, he's in. His balls go away from the middle of the plate.

John Roberts

Judges are umpires. I will remember it is my job to call balls and strikes, and not pitch or bat.

I'm still missing some balls I should be hitting. I'm just getting back to that feel I had in spring training, just the same comfort level. ... I guess it's something special. I'm just having fun with it.

Kris Benson

I'm hitting my spots like I should be, but they're taking too good of hacks on balls that I'm throwing up there, so there's obviously a problem with the selection I'm taking with each batter.

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.

The arm, I don't think it's the most important part of a catcher when it comes to the Gold Glove. It's definitely a factor, but it's calling a game, receiving, blocking balls.

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.

That was the game. Until we can win balls in the air, we are never going to beat teams like that. It's as simple as that.

Eric Schmidt

That was the game right there. We did a good job of closing out the half. We did a better job on the glass, got to some loose balls and hit the open shots.

Alex Gonzalez

That was something I needed. I've hit some balls hard lately, but I didn't have anything to show for it.

That was a great environment for me, ... It was good to be around a lot of quarterbacks and have a lot of balls thrown to you by different guys and it kind of worked out well for me when I went to the East-West Shrine game playing with some of those guys. It made it an easier transition.

That was my intent. We weren't going to come out and start flinging balls all over the lot. We're not going to put it on him to win the game, particularly early in the game.

That was amazing. He was dropping some unbelievable breaking balls on them.

Tim Smith

That's their type of game. We're able to create some turnovers, get some loose balls and make some plays in transition and that's where we're at our best.

That's what happens when receivers run the wrong routes, drop balls and fumble.