Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Coker

The protection is better, but I think the ball is also being released quicker, because he knows more where to go with the ball, ... We have to get the ball in the hands of the good players, and I see that type of progress from Kyle.

Brad Johnson

The proof is putting up points. The proof is winning ball games.

The one time she didn't get a hit was an error, and she basically knocked the shortstop over backwards. She was just ripping the ball tonight.

Those were the first two balls ever hit to me. It's cool. It's different. I never played outfield before.

Those were big-time shots and we battled and battled. But overall we didn't take care of the ball or do the things late that we needed to do to win Ozark did.

Those other games he wasn't getting the ball enough. Tonight we went to him a lot and it made a big difference. He's starting to get a little more confident. He feels like it's a positive that the team wants him to be involved down low.

Tina's just been plagued by foul trouble lately. She took the ball to the hole in the second half and that was good to see, but it's been frustrating for her.

Tim takes care of the ball and does a good job of not turning it over. He is very athletic, a good defender and has played well since coming up to the varsity.

Todd Helton

Time will tell but we definitely have the talent, but that doesn't mean nothing. We have to go out and win ball games. There are a lot of good players. The more experience everybody gets the better we are going to be.

Steve Hansen

Timely hitting has been our problem all year. We put the ball in play and put pressure on them, but we just didn't get timely hits.

This strikes me as Round 1 in a five-part drama. I'd be very surprised if something does not end up on the ballot in either June or November.

This sport is always continuing; we need to work on getting the ball back out to the sides. Sarah Cahill was put in some tough situations. There needs to be more support to people in the center with the ball.

Joe Gibbs

You make sure you cover all the things we did poorly. Sometimes in a win like that, you have a tendency to say we played great, but you miss a lot of things that we did poorly. Penalties were definitely a problem. We turned the ball over. ... We've been riding a ragged edge. That's not good football. We've got to fix it. We've got to look at it as a great win, but there's things we need to improve upon.

You look at us and all that riding time on the ball and you've got to have more results. I thought we had more opportunities today than they did. That's a positive. Games aren't always won by tactical and technical things, they are sometimes won by hard work. They got the better of us in that way.

You look at the lights, and it seems like everything is green, and then it turns to a burnt orange. That's the color everything stays, and everything just seems more clear. I think the ball looks a lot brighter to me.

Annika Sorenstam

You look at that fairway and the wind is blowing. You wonder, 'Where can this ball go?' I've got to hit it totally straight,

You don't need to get up and toss the ball to a guy. You don't need to get up and point the ball in a guy's face. You just get up and go back to the huddle. Give the ball to the official.

Clint Hurdle

You don't make the third out at third. You've been taught that since you're six years old. We talked about this the other day. We've done this twice now in the last three ball games.

Mike Holmgren

Today wasn't our day, that's for sure. When you play a team like that on the road, you can't turn the ball over. That's an overused term, but it's appropriate today. That was probably the story of the game.

Randy Johnson

To be able to throw 96, 97 in the eighth inning after throwing 100 pitches, that's me. My velocity was back to where I'd like to have it, and the sharpness and velocity of my breaking ball was there as well throughout the whole game.

John King

Up and down the lineup we put the ball in play.

Up and down the beaches, everyone is letting their commissions know that we don't want this and if you don't stop it, you won't be here any more. They went to the ballot and showed people what they thought.

Marian Keyes

Men can be men and still get excited about other men kicking a ball around and they're never mocked, whereas it's easy for women to take mocking on board, to be belittled. Because we're used to it.

Greg Norman

The players have competed on the level the last 25 or 30 years are always going to be the players that compete at a high level. These guys practice hard, they work on their game, they still hit the ball extremely well.

Sid Waddell

I'm the world's worst after-dinner speaker. I need pictures to respond to. I was the voice of the lottery balls once and got the sack.

Atul Gawande

I believe that one version of the good in life can be defined by the moments I sometimes had playing tennis as a sixteen-year-old. You'd be out on the court and for an hour, two hours, sometimes an entire roasting hot day, and every single thing you hit would go in. Hit that ball as hard as you wanted, wherever you wanted, and it went in.

Tomas Berdych

Tennis players need to be very focused and very intense, and I can show tennis players are not just hitting the little yellow ball and moving in between the white lines. I'm always trying to show my personality outside of the court.

Tomas Berdych

Whoever has played tennis knows the court is pretty big and you always have space to put the ball in.

Shana Alexander

When the prima ballerina found ground glass in her toe slipper every other dancer in the company was equally suspect.

Mike Hargrove

When the other club knows you're looking to take an extra base, they'll charge the ball more. When they have to charge, a tricky hop could mean the difference between getting around to third and having to stay at first.

Don Zimmer

When Yogi hit the ball down the left-field line, with Amoros' speed and being a left-handed thrower -- a right-handed thrower probably couldn't have caught the ball. I always kid around with people. I say, 'I was very important in that seventh game.' You don't win many games by being taken out of the game.

When Yao shoots the ball more, we have a chance to be a more efficient offensive team. That's because for the most part he's going to shoot 50 percent and above, and get to the free-throw line, and close shots near the basket even missed are harder to translate into transition points, which allows you to get your defense set.

Chris Chambliss

When Wily Mo sees the ball well, he makes good decisions as far as balls and strikes. Wily works at it. He wants to get better.