Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think I'd go for Collingwood, who can bowl a few overs and bat a bit,

Hanley Ramirez

I think I'm swinging the bat a little better than last year. This year I'm short and quick. Last year I was horrible.

Chris Burke

I think I'll know more after today. It's the first time I'm on the field with batting practice and taking grounders and fly balls. We'll see how it responds.

Nicole Scherzinger

When I think about eighteen months ago when this all began and how far we've come, I can't wait to see where we are eighteen months from now. It's also such an honor to have the baton of a number one song passed to us by an icon like Mariah Carey.

We couldn't do anything, but they had a lot to do with it. We didn't hit our spots well, and we had one guy swing the bat well. We got our butts kicked our hats handed to us and that's all you can say about it. They made the plays, and we made errors. It was a butt-kicking. I'm man enough to say it, and that's what happened today.

We really battle it out on backstroke. All three of our top swimmers compete for wins each week. It's a nice problem to have.

We really are starting to grow up now. All season long, I've been telling them to get their bats going and that other stuff will take care of itself. The easy part is throwing strikes and playing defense. We haven't done that consistently this year, but boy, we sure did it well today. We did everything well today.

We're all hurting. Our goal was to win a state championship, but now we're in a battle for third place. It'll take us a while to regroup, but hopefully we can come together and find one last good solid effort out of our kids.

We're all battling to finish strong and finish with the fourth or fifth byes.

Dick Cheney

We realize wars are never won on the defensive, ... We must take the battle to the enemy. We must take every step necessary to make sure our country is secure, and we will prevail.

Phil Garner

Well, I think Chris is swinging the bat pretty good right now and he has through these playoff games, ... Going with a little bit of a hot hand. This is only a move to do today. I haven't even thought about tomorrow.

George A. Smith

We put a new engine in for the final two qualifying sessions. The other engine got us through the Ringers Gloves Battle but was going away as we headed into the semifinal and final rounds. With the Battle behind us our concentration is now on the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals.

Sidney Crosby

We played a strong game. We're all competing and battling for each other. We're just not getting too many breaks, but for us, we just have to continue to do this. We have to stay with it. Every guy is battling in here and that's huge. Everyone is going the same way and eventually it's going to turn around.

We have to take our hats off to them. It's tough, because they swing bats well, too, and when you get good pitching and swing the sticks like that, good thing will happen. And that is what happened for them.

We have swung the bats in the last two weeks the best since I have been coaching. This is one of our better hitting teams and it has been one through nine in the lineup.

We dominated the first half but Kelso did not stop battling and the destination of this season's title could go down to goal difference.

We do have six healthy batteries online. So we are back up to full strength.

Rahul Dravid

We were 30 runs short on that wicket. I still think it was the right decision to bat first, we just didn't bat well enough, and the run outs didn't help.

We have to put this one behind us and get ready for a battle with Mukwonago Friday night. If we work on Friday as hard as we did tonight, we should be all right.

We have to prove ourselves. We've never finished less than second in league in our history. That's an uphill battle from here. We'll see what we're made of.

We're definitely pleased with the outcome of today's games. We started out a little tentative, but hopefully we'll be more relaxed (today) and we'll be able to get a bat on ball.

Gene Simmons

We recognized right off the bat that he was a good athlete. From that point on we were looking at how he could best fit into the system.

You always had those battles in high school and we've talked about the old days. It was fun. I knew both before I came here and it was good to build those relationships.

Reuben Droughns

You always fight for an opportunity to start, but I can't slack off now. Lee (Suggs, sprained ankle) is back. I think this is going to be a year-round battle between all of us.

Frank Robinson

We don't seem to be able to handle pitchers we don't know. First-time guys, we seem to struggle with them. We're just not swinging the bats very well right now.

We enjoyed it, even though they beat the snot out of us. That Battle Mountain team hits hard, but they are a fun team to play against.

We really need to swing the bats much better than yesterday in order to be in position to win the games.

We got down. They are a top team in the conference and they were up there for a reason. We helped them to get to that position. But our guys did a good job of battling back. We had some of our big hitters up there with a chance to tie the game up but we just couldn't get the big hit.

We got down and we just kept battling. For a while there we just couldn't generate a lot of offensive rhythm...I think that created a little bit of a problem for us, we continued to battle and it made a difference at the end.

We finally started swinging the bat the way we're capable of doing. It feels good that we started putting some pressure on the defense. That's all we can do. Hopefully, we'll continue to swing the bat.

Rob Blake

We finally had to battle to win a game. I think we've been getting away with just outscoring teams and it's kind of caught us the last two weeks. We haven't been working nearly hard enough to win games.

We finally got the monkey off our back. We played looser and I think that helped. We made quite a few mental mistakes early, but our bats were hot and our pitching is coming around.

We don't get to take batting practice, which is kind of a bummer. But just being on the field is a great experience.