Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kari has carried us on the boards all year. She has improved so much. She put in a lot of time in the off-season. When it comes to the state tournament they just don't call as many fouls, especially off the ball. She's been bruised, battered and bloody. She's a warrior. I love her game.

Joseph pitched well enough to win. We didn't swing the bat like we needed to, and we didn't make the plays we needed to behind him tonight.

Kelly Smith

Jordan pitched with a lot of heart after having pitched extended innings a couple days ago. Our bats were really flat behind him, because we struck out 10 times and had only three walks.

Bobby Cox

Jordan has been swinging the bat good and he's running good, ... He can certainly help us.

Joe is a senior, he's been our rock all year. Then we lost Jon ... the teeth didn't look good. But maybe this will be beneficial to our guys who had to battle through the adversity.

Wayne Graham

Joe feels that he can function better in his dual role as a Sunday starter. He's obviously a bat that we have to have.

Joe didn't have very good stuff tonight, and that is not terribly unusual in a second start. After making a strong start last week, I thought he looked a little tired and you have to be able to battle through that.

Josh struggled a little bit early, but then he started throwing his breaking pitch pretty good. Our defense played well behind him, and we swung the bats effectively. We didn't commit any errors, so that's a good thing.

John has a knack for making things happen batting where he does.

John had one target only and that was to win. It looked like a straight battle between John and Valentino Rossi, but I think they pushed each other to the limit and both ended up watching the last 10 minutes of the session.

David Eckstein

Juan has wheels and can handle the bat pretty well. Tony knows what he is doing. Juan is the type of hitter who can do a lot once he settles in and gets in his groove. He has a great stroke down through the zone. He's not the only one who struggled early. I hadn't been swinging the bat that well either. He's going to mean a lot to this lineup over the long run.

J.R. is just J.R.. He fights and battles and keeps us in every game.

Jim Haslett

I think it's a good rivalry. Any time we play them, we rise to the challenge. I think all our football games are close. Even the game we had in Baton Rouge (in November) in front of about 10,000 people, it was one of those battles. It helps when both teams know each other well.

Lance Berkman

I think it's a good position to be in because we'd like to get off to a good start, but if we don't, we know we can battle back from it.

I think it'll be a three-team battle between us, Wayland and East Longmeadow.

I think it had to be a little frustrating for them. But you have to give us some credit, too. We did a good job on defense, especially down the stretch. It was a tough shooting night for both of us. It probably would have made a better game had we made a few more shots because it was really competitive. It just came down to who made the plays when they needed to make them. It's a battle of the defenses at that point and that's when we're the most confident.

Cory Lidle

It broke his bat and went 330 feet. I figured it was going to be right there, but it kept back there. It definitely would've been a home run last year.

It became clear that his bat was not going to progress to the point where it would take him to the big leagues. We talked about the notion of putting him on the mound for a long time. Ultimately, we were waiting for him to really want to do it.

I think it's an uphill battle all the way.

I think its going to bother them for a while. But these guys are mentally tough and I expect them to battle back.

I think it's going to be a real battle and I can't wait for it. It's just put up or shut up right now.

I think it's going to be a battle for second place. I think we can get there. If we place in the top three, it will be the highest we've ever placed.

It comes up over and over and over again that a ten times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries or the volume metric, the space-oriented density of batteries, would enable so many other moonshots that that's one that just constantly comes up over and over again, and we will start that moonshot if we can find a great idea.

I thought we swung the bat very well. Good hitters hit mistakes. We were very consistent.

I thought we swung the bats extremely well. We were pretty disciplined all night and for the most part we took care of some things we needed to work on and it was a nice outing at the plate.

He might win a batting title one day. I'll go on record as predicting that.

We can hit and throw. Our pitchers throw live batting practice in a batting cage. There's not a whole lot we can do.

Robert Lewis

We can do it four times in a row. We have a formidable team... our batting is quite potent and our spin bowlers have been doing the trick for us all season.

Whatever needs to be done, he gets it done. He's a very consistent fielder and makes routine plays pretty much every time -- knock on wood. And he's gotten better with the bat since day one.

There is no easy way to bathe a hummingbird.

We've been very lucky, but some of that is kids fighting hard and battling and being in the right place at the right time. We emphasize defense and rebounding, and that was the difference in the game.

We've been trying to work him back in gradually. Him in the order really opens a lot of things up for us offensively. There is so much more we can do with his bat in there.

Deron Williams

We've been trying to get there (.500). We've been battling every night to get there. We look around our league and teams are losing, it's the perfect time to make a run before the All-Star break.