Famous Quotes & Sayings

That's the poorest shooting night we've had all year. The open looks we had when we broke their pressure just didn't go in. We had more balls roll off the rim tonight than I've seen in any practice or game all year.

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.

I was really impressed with how many balls we dug up tonight, ... And I think we're hard to match up with when we pass as well as we did, too.

Cameron White

I was probably the most nervous for the whole match when Mossy played and missed those first three balls, because I just knew it was the last over.

Ozzie Guillen

I was pretty impressed. The balls don't carry here much.

I was out in the back yard catching balls.

Shane Warne

I wasn't that happy with the way I bowled, I struggled for rhythm, I even bowled a few no-balls and things like that.

Kenny Rogers

I wasn't very good in getting the ground balls I would have liked to have gotten today. Yeah, there's a lot of stuff going on. I would have loved to have done better without a doubt, Just like they wanted to beat me, they knew I was wanting to beat them, too.

My change-up didn't show up until the fourth or fifth inning, ... I hung up a couple of breaking balls in that (fourth) one inning.

We have people come who have never seen men's volleyball with the power and the speed of the ball and etc., etc.. Then here comes this little guy out there playing like a chicken with his head cut off diving for balls and flopping all around.

We have only been able to get outside one day, so the first few ground balls in the dirt or fly balls in the sun during a game may be challenging.

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.

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.

I was thinking I had to keep the fastball low to get as many ground balls as possible. I used fastballs and sliders. ... I feel very proud of having thrown a no-hitter, and I really don't have any other words to describe it.

Jim Edmonds

I was trying to figure out where the balls and strikes and the outs are posted today. Those are things you get comfortable with as a player. When you have to start looking for them all over again, it takes some adjusting.

Kamran Akmal

I was totally shocked when I was told after the innings that I took only 81 balls and completed the century.

I was trying to mix it up and make good pitches. I didn't make good pitches. Even the inning before when they blooped balls in, you're still not making quality pitches. There's no excuse.

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.

I was glad to see us come out early and swing the bat. We had a little bit of a slump and weren't hitting as well as we had been. It seemed like we had a lot of fly balls to the warning track, but we were not stringing it together.

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.

I was getting by, but I was running a lot of long counts 3-0, 3-1. Then in that one inning, the fifth, they got a lot of balls, like grounders, through on me and they just kept doing it.

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

It felt good to be back on the field and to get a chance to work out the kinks. It was good to be out there catching balls and running routes. There was some good and bad. We were getting the springtime fire out there. For the most part, I think the intensity level of everybody was high.

Carl Crawford

It felt good. I hit some balls hard.

I think defensively we picked things up. We scrapped for loose balls. They beat us to loose balls in the first half. I thought down the stretch, we negated that.

With all the high balls coming in, a lot of teams' forwards just can't get to it there's so much size. And if it goes over any of our heads, we've got a big six-foot-five keeper coming through the back.

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.

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.