Famous Quotes & Sayings

It felt so good just to make solid contact again. I was just missing a lot of balls here the last few games. It was great to hit one solid.

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.

Tim Wakefield

You always want to get back out there. I had good stuff in Texas -- too good. Today, I felt more confident throwing balls in the strike zone, even though I hit a couple of batters. My misses were better.

We finally started blocking and touching balls at the net, which made our transitions easier.

We finally got our timing down. We finally hit some balls into the gaps, and that is something I've been complaining about not getting." ()

We'll want to get a feel for how balls bounce off the fence and get used to the field.

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.

I think I figured it out, ... All teams that start with T give me trouble. Tampa, Toronto, Texas. But in all honesty, it's the way it goes. The balls I threw on the corners they hit and the ones over the middle they crushed. It's just one of those nights.

Nate Robertson

I think I had life on my pitches -- I wasn't throwing beach balls up there, ... I don't think I'm tired.

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.

Lleyton Hewitt

It definitely helped him out. There's no doubt about that. You know, he still played extremely well, and he didn't give me a lot of opportunities out there, but the court surface, it's very hard to dictate play out there. It's slower than last year. There's no doubt about that, whether it's the balls or not.

Pacman Jones

I stood up well. He caught two balls on me, both of them curls, no deep balls. I'm happy with my play for the most part. I'm getting better every game.

I thought it was another good outing. Heath, of course, threw extremely well, except in one inning when he got a couple balls up. All in all, though, I thought we played pretty well.

Curt Schilling

I thought it was a little inconsistent today, ... but today was just location. I just left a lot of balls in the middle of the plate.

I thought he threw pretty well, really. They had two balls they hit hard, and the rest just dropped in.

Lloyd Carr

I thought he missed some open receivers. I thought he had five balls dropped.

I thought he looked great. Those balls would have been out if it hadn't been for the wind. He's swinging the bat well.

Jason Marquis

I thought I was on top of my game. I was a little quick early, throwing the balls a little too down in the zone, but I was able to make the adjustments.

You'll find out over the course of a period of time that you can't get to every ball, but I always thought that I could. You can't have any fear of dropping balls or missing balls.

Josh McCown

You kind of get a feel for the altitude, ... Some of the balls in the first quarter, you want them to come down, and just because of the air, they just sailed. It's kind of tough to judge." ()

We continue to make relatively simple errors, ... Errors of judgment where players are left unmarked. We have opportunities to clear a ball, (and) we don't do it. We play sloppy balls that end up going to the other team. We've gotten punished for it in the big games we've played this year.

We dropped some balls, the kicking game wasn't very good.

We realized we need to give her more space. But we haven't done a good job of getting her enough quality balls on the outside.

We put an emphasis on rebounding Monday and Tuesday in practice. I thought we played our first-shot defense very well. But a lot of loose balls and rebounds that we needed to come up with to finish the defensive possession, we didn't get.