Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xavier Malisse

It was tough. He didn't give me any rhythm. Balls with no pace are tough for me. Other guys hit through the ball, but he spins the ball, and plays smart. I like to grind and he does too.

Chad Campbell

It was a little chilly out there. I didn't play well, but it could have been worse. It's playing pretty long. The balls weren't going very far.

These balls weren't even close, so I walked every time. Finally my manager told me to just swing anyway, so I popped up trying to hit a ball two feet outside.

The start was definitely the difference. Jumping out like we did. The kids played great on defense. I thought they moved their feet. They were tipping balls away. Then on the other side we were finishing.

Balls that were hit to the outfield weren't even damp. The outfield just soaked it up. It was pretty incredible.

Jimmy Rollins

Balls are getting down the lines, in the gaps. I've been finding the corner.

As long as we can run, I'll take pass balls or balls in the dirt. We spend time in practice working on reading the ball in the dirt and moving up, today we had some kids do that.

A sleep. They just weren't very physical, they weren't alive. They didn't get any loose balls and every time we turned around they (Bluff) were trying to double us and we didn't see the open people... they were just not with it. And that type of play will get you beat.

Todd Walker

As long as I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, which is catch the balls I'm supposed to catch, then I'm happy.

That's me, contact all over the place. Ground balls, fly balls, that's my game. More times than not, I'll take that. I'll definitely take that with the defense I have behind me here.

Alana is a very gutsy player. She has done a great job this year in the outfield, and I expect her never to let anything fall. She makes big plays and has done a good job at catching things in front of her and diving for balls that aren't.

They've got a lot of speed, a lot of soccer sense and they're just an outstanding team. Balls that normally are 50-50 balls in other games, they were all over. They grabbed up any ball that was free. They're just a top-notch team.

Jason Castro

They (the Thunder) had two routine balls hit to our second baseman with the bases loaded that bounced over his head. Both times they scored two runs.

They started hitting Jordan (Coffey), but he was pitching pretty well and I think he'll be fine. But we just left too many balls in too many places for them to hit and they had far too many good hitters for us to do that.

They said you were soft, you won't block. Say you drop balls, and he took offense to that. I was glad to see that. The year before I had some of the same questions for another tight end, and his reactions were not pleasing. He just kind of took it and went on. . . . I knew then that I had doubts about that kid.

They put some hard hit balls by us,

A lot of these kids took a back seat the last few years. There weren't enough balls to go around. That doesn't mean they weren't quality players.

You play your defense around the block. You don't play your defense over the block or right behind the block normally, and they were hitting balls over us and right behind the block. Our defense wasn't in the right spots.

This is awesome, ... It's been a long road for the GTO to get up on the pole position. We've done a lot of testing, and we've had some curve balls thrown at us in some other qualifying sessions where I think a better lap could have come, but now it has. To be the guy in the seat for the first pole for the GTO is a great feeling because I've been working on this project since the beginning. Pontiac has put up a huge effort. Jan got the first win and I got the first pole. I think the car will be good tomorrow.

Bronson Arroyo

This is as good of a start as I could possibly have. I could tell when I threw the first five balls just warming up that I had good stuff.

This is the game that has all the weight on it, because if you don't win this one your season's over. You pack your bag, put the balls away and wait until next October.

There will be a hole in the snow, you can see. People can go dig their balls out. They don't have to try to hit it out of three-foot hole.

Barry Zito

There were some strange balls that were pop ups and they kept going. I was throwing to the inside part of the plate better and throwing the change. I just felt like a couple of them weren't really hit that well.

There were some key moments in the first four or five minutes when they got to a couple of loose balls or got some offensive rebounds when you could see we were a step slow.

They're hot. They go out there and play hard and you can tell they really love the game. They've improved on catching those deep balls and a lot of them are getting good coverage and beating guys off the ball.

They're so used to seeing white soccer balls that they love these, ... Soccer balls are the universal sign of a universal game.

As a quarterback you're supposed to complete balls, not rush. It's not something I'm proud of, rushing for more yards than I threw for.

The bowlers sent down a lot of slower balls and off-cutters, (but) the batters used the short boundary well.

Scott Styris

The bowlers did very well, just two days after stepping off the plane. A lot of balls beat the bat - a different day, it could have been a different story.

The breaks started going our way at that point. We had some balls that went off of horses and other things went in our favor.

Rasheed Wallace

They made the hustle plays - the extra battle for the loose balls and the second and third efforts on some of their shots. That's what beat us.

They made some plays. We put some balls in play hard and they made some plays. We're not making excuses. They played better than we did today. They deserved to win the ball game.

David Wallace

They made some good pitches and we had some hard balls right at guys. That's baseball. That's the way it goes.