Famous Quotes & Sayings

I've gotten the bunt sign twice in seven years. I'm not sure why (Buford) changed the sign. Maybe he had some confidence in me. I'm glad he did.

It worked out perfect. If the guys want to do that - miss a bunt and then hit home runs - that's fine with me. But they've got to make sure they hit home runs.

Brandon Phillips

I can bunt to move guys and to get hits. We're trying to compete and win. I was happy because I'm trying to do anything.

I can bunt better to move runners, and I can hit better. I've worked on it and want to see how much I've improved.

Derek Jeter

Any way you can get it done now. Robbie put down a good bunt to get the runners over. It seems like every at-bat is important at this point in the year.

It was an ESPN highlight. There wasn't anything wrong with the bunt or the runner. Matt just made an unbelievable play.

Brandon Morrow

A lot of the southern teams rely more on slugging than the west coast teams, who like to hit-and-run, bunt and use speed on the bases. I'm going to challenge (Baylor) with the fastball, but I don't think I'm going to change anything else.

This is what we have been doing, we self-destruct in certain innings. I mean (Chris) Tuttle certainly wasn't on his game, he walked quite a few, but he had a couple bunt situations early on, routine plays, that changed the whole outcome of those two innings.

Willie Bloomquist

We already had an out and that took the sacrifice bunt out of the equation, and I had to get there.

We're trying to get her to switch hit and bunt left-handed. She has good speed, so that will be helpful. She'll probably be at the top of the order.

You don't have to worry about slumps with him because he can always bunt to get on base.

Chone Figgins

The touch is coming back, which is good. I'm just getting a feel for it. I'm not going to go up there and think bunt every at-bat, but more situational.

If you can't catch, you don't win. And you have to play bunt defense. Those are the things that hurt us.

Steve Finley

It's not easy, but it's fun. It's a game. Before we did it, I said nobody should even bunt because I was going to win.

It's always fun to watch Natalie play on defense because you never know when she will make that great play or make a throw that no one expected. Offensively we've seen a lot of growth in her this last year, expanding her game to include the short game, using her speed to be able to slap as well as drag bunt to get herself on base.

After missing out on a chance to score more runs in the sixth and then not getting that bunt down, it was certainly nice to see Manual pick us up after that. It's also definitely a good feeling to put together a couple of wins after going through some struggles like we did.

Sayers had a great day. He produced big for us, and that bunt kept a rally going. It seems like with this team, we have a different hero step up every day.

It's all about execution. We got the hit, and got the bunt down and then the sacrifice fly. The kids executed down the stretch.

The key was getting the lead-off runner on base. And then knowing we had to move the runners. They looked at me to call it (the bunt off), but I wouldn't call it off.

The key is that we're not playing from behind. When the pitchers do good and our hitters come through, it allows us to bunt and hit and run and do the things it takes to win.

The funny thing is I had called a bunt before that pitch. But I decided to call it off right before that pitch he hit the home run.