Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lance Berkman

I don't feel like I'm on fire, but I'm getting my hits. I still have those at bats when I feel like I'm back in spring training. I'm not complaining, don't get me wrong. If I feel like this all year and hit good that's fine.

I feel good about our chances (Saturday). We've got a good pitcher on the mound, and hopefully we can swing the bats a little better.

I can't figure it out. I'm a little puzzled by it. It's pretty brutal how we're swinging the bats right now.

Charlie Kaufman

The biggest thing that I came across, right off the bat, was that you can't shoot this like a regular movie with multiple takes. You have to, because it's such a protracted process, break it down to the frame and pretty much get one shot.

We accomplished what we needed to. We're really swinging the bats right now and a lot of kids had unselfish at-bats when the game was still tight. We had some walks and a couple of kids got hit and then the big boys knock them in. We just don't have an easy out in the lineup.

We started slow tonight. It took our bats a while to get going, but now I'm looking down the lineup and a couple kids went 3-for-4, so it didn't turn out too bad.

Chris Jones

We started off slow but our bats started to come around after the first inning.

Noel Clarke

I did 'Kidulthood' and 'Adulthood,' and that's what people wanted and expect me to always do. They want me to do 'hood films and be the guy swinging baseball bats and saying 'Yo Blood' and beating up others in the street.

When you swing the bats like that, you're going to be pretty tough to beat. It was a good day. The hitters did a good job. It wasn't like their pitchers were slopping it up there.

We're starting to believe a little bit. We're starting to believe in our bats a little bit, and it's taken a long time to get there. That's big for us.

We're going to swing the bats and hit, but I'm tired of playing well enough to win and not winning. We're 16 games into the season. The light should be going on and we should be making plays.

Unfortunately, it's a lot later than I wanted it to be, but its definitely nice to be back. Tonight wasn't really where I need to be, but these guys swung the bats so well it made my outing look better than it was.

Phil Garner

We're just not getting guys on base, and we're certainly not driving them in when we do. Everybody's frustrated. We've gone two weeks now without really much of an offensive threat. The real problem is that we're not getting the bats in the zone very good right now.

Ron Gardenhire

We knocked the fire out of the ball. The guys swung the bats pretty good, and that's fun to see.

Chase Utley

It's good to find the barrel of the bat again.

We did get some hits, but we left guys on base. We're just not swinging the bats the way we need to. But everyone we're putting out there on the mound is doing a great job.

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We've scored just two runs in the last 18 innings. We're not swinging the bats like we need to. We're not stringing the hits together.

Brian Lara

If I have to put anyone to bat for my life, it'll be Kallis or Dravid.

We've been improving, we've been improving everyday. We still made a lot of mistakes tonight but we're gonna get better. I like the way we swung the bats tonight. We really kept our front side down and we hit it in the gaps. That's the way we like to hit.

We ran into a team that played really well tonight. It wasn't a lack of effort or not believing, but they just beat us tonight. They swung the bats better than we did.

Early Wynn

I've got a right to knock down anybody holding a bat.

We are kind of an explosive team with the bats. That's pretty much the way it's been with our bats all season.

We are keeping games under control now. And we have the hitters to win close games. The girls feel they have the bats to win a game in the bottom of the seventh.

We are just getting better and better. Now is the time to peak, and I'm glad our bats finally woke up tonight.

We're coming around, if we can just get the bats going. This was a good game for us to play. Once we got through the first, we settled down. We played some good small-ball, and great defensively.

We were a little more comfortable offensively and we did swing the bats better. Baseball's a hard game and we have to be more comfortable when we play it. Scoring early today helped us relax a little bit.

We didn't swing the bats well. We had some chances, but couldn't get the big hit. It was a pitchers' duel.

We didn't swing the bats well today, but I think that had more to do with Mike than anything else. He pitched a heck of a game. Sometimes you run into a guy like that, that has a great day and you tip your hat to him.

We didn't swing the bats well early in the year, but we're starting to come around.

We didn't swing the bats the way we should have, but we did have our key people up in the key situations, and we were able to score some runs.

Bruce Bochy

We didn't swing the bats at all today. We got the big hit there by Joe but we didn't create many opportunities, and we were dodging bullets all day.

We didn't have a great day at the plate, but we hung in there and found a way to win regardless. This team knows how to win games. Some days, the bats aren't there. What's important is that you keep your head in the game and find a way to stick with it. That's what we did.