Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm not sure if it was a matter of Derek getting better protection or him just settling in, or both. But we started clicking and Derek was throwing some great balls.

I'm not sitting here suggesting that guys don't get hits on an 0-2 or a 1-2 pitch ... but ordinarily, on 0-2, you don't see balls get hammered. When you come up through a minor-league system, you know early on that when you get a hitter 0-2, a ball sitting right in the middle of the plate is not a very good location.

Danny Blind

I'm not seeing a certain drive by some players, the drive to win duels and grab loose balls. The only way we're going to get out of this rut is to work like dogs.

David Wright

I'm going to make errors. That comes with the territory. I felt there were times last year when I was playing not to make mistakes, not playing aggressive. At third base, you have to play aggressive. You're going to make errors. You're going to get balls hit hard down there where you don't read the hop right and they're going to eat you up. But you have to maintain your aggressiveness; you can't start back-pedaling. Most of your moves have to be going in.

John Gibbons

The best work you can get is taking balls off the bat, over and over and over again.

Still, the key is in the passing and setting ourselves up. If we can do that consistently, and with our jump serve, you can look up and it's 10-10, and the next time you look up, it's 18-10. We serve a couple aces, block a couple balls, and all of a sudden, we get away from teams so fast and put a lot of pressure on them.

The balls will just click right off the ice and land on the other side. You have to take the good with the bad.

The balls were jumping out of here today. That's why we need to talk to the city of Brookings about moving these fences back, but it's a fun place to be a hitter.

The balls were hitting her are just as crisp (as in the Sabino game). They're just finding their way in.

Scott Thompson

The balls we hit were pretty hard. We were trying to hit them so hard we popped a few up, but that goes with it. All in all, I was pleased with our effort.

Jamie Moyer

The balls they hit were elevated in the (strike) zone. It was a mater of making the adjustments to keep the ball down and get some ground balls.

The balls he hits to right are on a line, too. He's not just slicing the ball out there. That just shows you how well he trusts his mechanics.

This is a very personal interactive sport. Autographs, balls into the stands that fans can keep, the proximity of fans to the action. And we've barely begun to scratch the surface of what we can be.

Not too many of them were well-hit balls, mostly just looping singles over the infield. They just hit it where we weren't.

It's how many different balls we can get in the air. If one falls, we know we've gone over the limit.

Tiger Woods

It's playing more like a U.S. Open than a Masters. Lately, the Masters has played soft and wet, with balls plugging in the fairways and picking up mud. That wasn't the case. It was quick and dry, and the greens are picking up speed.

David played an outstanding game with three forced turnovers and more ground balls than I could count.

John Gibbons

You talk about Orlando's defense -- those balls he goes back on, those in-between balls he takes away. Now, you're talking about a guy that's never played outfield, so it's a little more magnified.

Matt Moore

That's the difference between the offense clicking this week and not clicking last week. We were in sync tonight, and it was just players making plays. You can't pick out one guy. We had guys catching balls all over the place and spreading it around to people, and when your quarterback is making great decisions, it's a hard offense to stop.

It's nice to have the bats come around. We had a bunch of hits, balls hit hard. Maybe we can get some confidence and get going again.

Marat Safin

It's still very painful, I have to think about every movement on the court, cannot hit the balls as I would like to,

Shaun Edwards

Tactics, discipline, astuteness, mental toughness, accuracy. And bottle - having the balls to play.

Swing at everything and hold back on the balls.

Clarence Brown

It's challenging to try to play, hit balls and also try to have family time, wife time.

Michael Campbell

It's definitely frustrating. But we've got to look at it like the balls will eventually start falling.

Lleyton Hewitt

It's a matter of focusing on what you have to do. There's balls going everywhere and papers were flying round. The person who is able to keep his focus will win the match.

It looked to me like we had the balls delivered where they were supposed to be, we had the right patterns called, and we didn't execute or make the catch. When the game is on the line, we talk about who can you count on when the game counts, and we didn't come up with a play to win the game or at least a play to keep the drive going.

It's hard to comment on him. I'll have to go back and look at the tape. It looked like he was getting a drive going and then two people would move. We dropped a couple balls on him, too.

It seemed like we had balls bouncing all over the place.

It seemed like there were always two or three defenders all around me, and balls were thrown over my head ? a lot, ... I caught a lot of balls one-handed. I'd reach up with one big hand to stop it, and then I could tap the ball to myself until I could cradle it.

Paul Hewitt

It seemed like a lot of balls rolled right off the rim. We were getting some good looks. They just wouldn't fall.

It's difficult to teach fielding ground balls or fly balls for that matter in a gymnasium. But everyone else up here has had the same problem.

Steve Williams

It was one of those shots you can stand there with 100 balls, and never do it again.