Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Shales

'Minute to Win It' is a variation on a game show from the 1950s called 'Beat the Clock,' in which contestants won washing machines and fox stoles by doing such pointless stunts as catching a tennis ball in a paper cup or knocking a hat off one's wife's head with a whipped-cream spritzer.

Aaron Rodgers

Minus the pass to Sean, I felt I had a pretty productive game. I didn't really make any mistakes besides that, and that was just a case of me trying to make a play when I probably should have thrown the ball away.

Miller has had the Russian National Ballet perform several ballets over the years. They are an outstanding company of dancers.

Molly's really someone that's in control. She does a great job as far as setting our offense, getting our sets. But again, (she) is somebody who's very skilled and Molly's done a great job of getting the ball to the basket, making tough shots. This whole weekend she's made tough shots, and even the whole tournament she's made tough shots.

(Moline) came out with some big kids and ran the ball down our throats their first two drives. In the second half, I think we were just fresher. James Hoffman is going to be an outstanding sophomore running back.

Brian Cashman

We have interest in him if he is interested. The ball is in his court. If he has interest, we have interest back.

Tony Terry

We have hit the ball well the last two games. If we continue to pitch and hit well, we will have a chance to win ball games.

We're hitting the ball really well right now.

We're hitting the ball real good right now. We're hitting it in play, we're hitting it hard and when you do that something good is going to happen.

Matt King

We're hitting the ball hard. We're just hitting it to people.

We're hitting the ball as if it's May. And that's a great sign.

We're Harrisburg High. Nothing shocks us. Were they shocked when we jumped on them last year? We weren't going to take the ball and leave. We knew they were going to play. If we would've got off to the start they did, we would've been in control.

We're harder to defend this year because we're throwing the ball with more success, we have some good receivers and the line is protecting well.

We're happy with the progress we've made so far. We've been in most of the ball games we've played. We're disappointed we weren't able to close some of them out and get wins. That's frustrating, but we know we're headed into the right direction.

We're happy with the effort. Unfortunately we hit some balls right at some people tonight and they didn't get through and that's baseball. It seems to be going like that for us, but we're going to catch our breaks.

We're happy to lend a hand to this important program. Recycling continues to become a more and more important issue with each passing year and we hope that Ducks fans with old sneakers will be able to make the trip to our ballpark with their unwanted sneakers to help out a great cause.

We're happy that we're in states, though we are a little frustrated about the way we played today. Our biggest opponent sometimes is ourselves. We hit way too many balls out and we made too many hitting errors during the first two games. Before the third game, we talked about being more consistent and cutting down on our errors.

We're happy for all of them to get a college education and hopefully play some ball somewhere." ()

We regularly check the balls when they hit the dirt." ()

This process actually gives the voters with returned ballots an opportunity to privately revise and then recast their ballot.

This win was a great way to end the season. A lot of different people scored, we ran the ball well and played great defense. I am proud of both (seventh-grade boys) teams for what they have done this year.

This win tonight was not just Kayla going off and scoring four goals. She finished the way she needed to finish ... but she doesn't get those balls if the rest of the team doesn't step up behind her. It was a total team effort.

This win is indicative of why this team is different from Heath teams of the past. We didn't shoot the ball very well at all. But we found a way to win in the end. Our seniors stepped up and really led us to this victory.

Richard Armitage

There are ways to pursue political change. In a democracy, it's through the ballot box. There are other ways, and many democracies have many different systems of democracy.

There are things we can build on and have a really good football team, ... The kids coming back on the plane last night - there were no heads down. I think they were proud of their effort. They knew they were in the ballgame until the very end, that they had a chance to win. I think they'll be an easy group to rally to get ready to play an unbelievably good Wisconsin team.

We're playing pretty good right now. We just got careless and threw the ball away (in the fourth quarter). We handled their press the whole game and just got careless and threw the ball right to them.

We're playing pretty good ball right now. We're fielding around 98 percent and hitting really well. Overall, we're headed in the right direction.

We're playing mediocre ball right now. There's a lot of guys who need that day off, mentally and physically.

We shared the ball really well. I'm pleased that we came down here so focused.

We tried to create a faster tempo in the second half, pushing the ball and making harder cuts in our half-court offense.

We tried our best to keep the ball out of J.J.'s (Mulligan) hands and we knew if somebody else stepped up, we could lose. Well, somebody else did step up. He (Van Allen) played a great game.

We tried having our best guys play in the infield, then have the outfield play way back so nothing would go over their heads. But the ball would bounce over their heads or get away from them. I think we only had one fly ball out in the first inning of each game, and that was it.

Marty Schottenheimer

We tried different ways to get him the ball. If you give him the ball enough times he's going to make plenty of yards.