Famous Quotes & Sayings

Through the first six or seven innings it was like, here we go again. But in the eighth and ninth, we found a way to get it done.

You have to play with who you have. We had three opportunities to win the game, in the seventh, eighth and ninth. Someone had to step up.

He played fullback for me one year at Hart, ... He was a 240-pound fullback in eighth grade. But that shows that he has great feet. He really moves well.

Our eighth and ninth guys in our rotation were starters today and they played really well. It was a sloppy game, but we keep finding ways to win. We knew not to overlook Hickman County.

Of our 49 boys, 17 are freshmen, so we're still teaching some of the guys this isn't middle school anymore. Some of the freshmen are helping in relays and others are challenging in open events. Six or seven will make an immediate impact. We're talking about kids that maybe lost one meet in seventh and eighth grade, so they're good athletes.

Once we got (to state), we wanted to qualify for Saturday's finals. Then, we made the most of it and made the jump to eighth place (after Saturday's final two rounds). I'm proud of each and every one of them.

Chandler Massey

Back in eighth grade, I'd seen nothing but small-town Georgia when I left the U.S. for the first time and went to Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China.

That one where five roads come together (North Eighth and E streets), to me, that's the worst, But you never know who gets to go next.

They've got a lot of talent and, being the eighth seed, they don't get as much respect as they deserve.

They told me I needed some ice time because I hadn't played a lot on Long Island. I agree. I don't want to sit there and be a seventh or eighth defenseman.

They're very sincere and want to improve the process. We want to take a look at the four-year plans and how they're being used. We're going to be having conversations with middle school principals very soon, because that's when they start, in the eighth grade.

They started giving ribbons instead of medals for three years between the eighth and 10th grades, then they started giving medals again.

A lot of them have been team players. They're trying to step up and do events that maybe they haven't done since maybe seventh or eighth grade.

This is great for an eighth grader in an event like the shot put.

Felipe Alou

There were many times last year that I had to wait until the eighth inning to get him that fourth at-bat and get him out of the game.

This marks the eighth consecutive quarter of year-over-year top-line growth for Cisco.

They played like they wanted that eighth seed. We had some kids not ready to play.

They did real well, were at eighth place, and the young guys stepped it up big time to get us to third. Everyone finished great. We'll have a better shot at state after this tournament.

You don't want to let him have 70 pitches in the eighth inning, which he did, but at the same time you want to .attack him.

I don't think there has been a better year for basketball. It's great for the high school kids, but maybe even more so for those kids in sixth, seventh and eighth grade. They see how much fun those section and state games are.

Ilya Kovalchuk

I don't think about how many goals I'm going to score. I don't care. I would give up all my goals for the eighth playoff spot.

I am on top of the world. If I took third, I wouldn't be any more excited. It doesn't matter to me from eighth to third. The finals would be something else.

Frank Robinson

Big home run. Big, big, big home run in the eighth inning. The other two were big, too.

I've been waiting two months to get to this race. I've been saying the mile and an eighth can't get here fast enough for this horse.

Jim Brown

We went from third to eighth or ninth real quick.

When I started with the company, management promised me a full-time job within two years. I am now in my eighth year.

There's guys hitting at the lower end of our order here hitting seventh, eighth and ninth that when they were in high school were their No. 3 hitter and were their star high school player.

I don't want to push the eighth graders too much because I know how much golf is a mental game and there can be a lot of pressure. I want to make this experience positive - I want them on the team four years from now.

Steve Collins

I knew he'd be good in the eighth grade. He had a big body. He had great hands. He was just physically ready.

I'm real proud of the eighth inning after what they did in the sixth. She mowed them down.

Allen Iverson

It's big for us because we know the other teams are right around us for the playoffs. (But) we are not approaching games like that. We are just trying to win the game. We don't feel like we need to settle for the eighth or seventh seed, we feel like we can get as high as we want to.

It was really great to have people to look up to. The team we had when I was in eighth or ninth grade was so good. I really looked up to them.

It was a very tight game. It was just 1-0 going into the sixth and they tied it up. They got a little sloppy in the eighth inning and we stretched it out a little.