Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Wright

Everybody in this clubhouse wants to be in that situation with the game on the line, with the bat in their hands. I was fortunate to come up with guys on base.

Everyone was getting a nice bat on the ball. They're starting to hit like I want them to hit. I told them we needed to win two of our next three to be one game from .500. Then the next half, hopefully we can peak and get everything going.

Every facet of our game was going well. It all starts with your starting pitching. Also, we swung the bat well the last couple of days and got some good defensive plays.

Bruce Bochy

At that point, Sean was our left-handed bat off the bench,

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Stan Musial

When we played the Dodgers in St. Louis, they had to come through our dugout, and our bat rack was right there where they had to walk. My bats kept disappearing, and I couldn't figure it out. Turns out, Pee Wee Reese was stealing my bats. I found that out later, after we got out of baseball. He and Rube Walker stole my bats.

Bob Feller

There has always been cheating going on in pitching and hitting. As far as cheating, using a wooden bat and flattening the hitting surface, that has always been going on. ... It is usually discovered in pretty good time.

We did a lot of things to put ourselves in position to win, but we just can't seem to make the big plays right now. The biggest problem we had was an inability to score runs. We only struck out four times in 21 plate appearances, which tells me we are putting the bat on the ball, but we are hitting it right at people.

We found ways to battle and battle, but not to pull out wins. We won one big game and thought we were turning the corner, but we lost some close ones down the stretch.

Ozzie Guillen

We have a better bench, a better rotation, and having Thome swing the bat the way he is now, he'll really help our team. But when you win the world championship, you can't say this team is better. That's not fair.

Tim Wakefield

To hold onto Manny's bat in the lineup, I'm glad he decided to stay.

With Ryan Bohanan, the way he swings the bat makes him an awfully good option,

Frank Robinson

You have to give the Korean team some credit. If you make a mistake they'll put the bat on the ball.

We're swinging that bat big now and we're playing the way we are supposed to be playing. This is a good group of guys and I expect us to do big things as we go on.

This way we'll still have his bat in the lineup everyday. He does it all, so we're going to need him.

This was a big game. It has been a good battle this week between two teams.

We certainly did some great things in the first half. Then we took a drive 70 yards for a TD right off the bat (to start the second half). It was huge because they came back hard and our kids fought, too.

Greg Chappell

We are under pressure and we need to bat well.

We're going to be a team that's going to surprise some people. Our hitting is coming around. We worked hard in the off-season to get strong and have faster bat speed. And so far, it looks like we have more pop in the bat this year.

We saw the kids playing in mud and they had bats and were making mud pies out of them.

We scored some runs in the first and got our bats going.

We're trying to get another bat or two going. We're trying to solidify things and this early, it doesn't exactly have to be fully solidified, but we're not as far as I'd like to be.

Randy Jackson

You get a shot at bat when you win this. You've won the competition. You've got the prize. Now you've got to make a great record. That's the hardest thing for all of them, because I don't think all of them have made great records.

You feel like you should get two points in a game like that. (The winning goal) hit my stick. I tried to put it in the corner. I went to bat it and missed it and he got it. Good hand-eye on him. It's disappointing. We outplayed them and we deserved two points.

Dwight Freeney

You double (team) me all day and you double Robert (Mathis) all day, the more doubles you deal out means somebody is going to get a single. We won the battle and we were outnumbered.

There's going to be a lot of back and forth, charges and counter-charges. There's going to be a number of legal battles over the legitimacy of the elections. So there are just so many issues that have not been answered, it's very difficult to see what's going to happen in the future.

There's not a club I've had that Travis Parrott wouldn't bat for. He's that good.

There's no doubt our goal was to make it back to Little Rock and to win state. But it's much easier to be the Cinderella team than to be the team with a target on your chest. Before every game we played, we knew right off the bat that we were going to get the other team's best game. Over the course of a 30-game season, that starts to wear on you.

David Carson

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Rahul Dravid

The track was a good wicket to bat on and was a bit slow. It was a similar kind of wicket we might get in Tests as well,

Loren Roberts

What a week to break in. It's a great golf course and you just have to go out and battle the weather. It certainly makes it exciting.

Matt Barnes

What an effort by my kids. These kids kept battling and battling. We had a chance. We kinda showed what Olympus is all about. We've got a lot of character and heart. O We knew we were heavy underdogs coming in. We were under the radar, and we were one shot away from going to the championship.

Greg Walker

We tease Joe all the time. We tell him, 'You've got the league set up now.' But teams can't get him out going by the book anymore. If Joe swung the bat like this all year, I'm sure some pitchers would be a little more careful with him than they've been in the postseason.