Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doug Davis

I want to work on changeups to lefties. I'd just thrown a fastball and he pulled it foul, so I thought it was a good time for something slow. He hit it out on his front foot, but he kept his hands back.

Jeff Nelson

The 2-2 pitch was pretty close, ... The 3-2 fastball wasn't.

Ian Harrington

That was a terrible pitch. I left a fastball up and he made me pay for it.

Ryan Madson

That was a good sign. It means I'm keeping my fastball down. That's what I wanted to concentrate on doing.

Mark Hendrickson

That was a fastball that was all over the place. But it worked.

Mike Wood

I was working on throwing my fastball away and inside to left-handed hitters. They haven't told me what plans they have for me yet. That's all I can do whether I am a starter or in the bullpen.

Mike Timlin

I was trying to go fastball down and away. You don't want the guy to hit the ball to left field with power, and he's got some power. Dougie set up down and away. The ball was middle up, and he just tomahawked it.

Rodrigo Lopez

I was trying to throw a good fastball down and away. I just left it up a little bit. Like I say, this guy's got tremendous power. This guy is an All-Star.

Josh Towers

I thought I located my fastball pretty well. I made some mistakes, but for the most part I think I did pretty well. If I can throw like I did today, then why can't I do it in a week? We'll find out down the stretch.

Rosevelt Colvin

Regardless, if we said it 10 times a 1,000 times, if Rodney's out there or if Rodney's not out there, whoever's out there -- 11 guys -- we play team defense,

Claude Julien

Price is showing things at 18 guys don't usually show until their second or third year as pros.

Chris Snee

Part of it was their scheme, part of it was us not doing our assignments, and part of it was guys just getting beat.

Romeo Crennel

Part of the reason we wanted to get veteran guys in here is because of the experience,

Bill Ball

Our nine seniors, a lot of those guys have made tremendous sacrifices. Every team has scorers, but you've got to have guys willing to play roles, and that's what we've had.

Doug Aplin

Our kids worked hard for everything they got this year. I would love to get the first half back in the finals, but that is the sport. Every day, every single day, these guys showed up for practice and worked hard to succeed.

Marc Bulger

Sure it worked. We played with more of a sense of urgency. I know the message he was trying to get across, and he did it well. He went at us hard on Wednesday and Thursday, but I think we understood. Guys picked up their game. He knocked some sense into us, and hopefully we can maintain it.

Jeffrey Cohen

Steve and his guys are more strategic partners than mere contractors.

Torii Hunter

Spring training is a (time) to get to know your team. We've got new guys on our club, and you don't even know these guys.

Kim Schmidt

People make mistakes. Nobody's perfect. They were trying to work things out.

Bill Evans

Some people can make a lot of mistakes and still get a way with it because athleticism can make up for it. We're not that kind of team. We need to play within ourselves.

Jamie Langenbrunner

Other than the first period, I thought we played a solid game. We snapped out of making those mistakes we made in the first period and played better during the second and third.

Doug South

We never really got anything going. We made some mistakes, interceptions. But it wasn't all the quarterback. We had some routes not run correctly.

Channing Frye

That was really deflating. We're right there and then boom, boom. At least it's us making mistakes that we can correct.

William Reynolds

That was a mistake. We're trying to right that mistake.

Jeff Scott

I think through the mistakes they've made, they understand the process a little better.

Patrick Lalime

Little mistakes at the end ... I'm not sure what happened.

Grant Lowther

I won't be as nervous (for the quarterfinals). When you're out there wrestling, you don't always know if you're making mistakes here or there.