Famous Quotes & Sayings

(Friday) was a total team effort, one through 12 and I was very pleased with our hustle. We knew that (Oblong) would try to pull the ball out and play a half-court game and we worked hard in practice on ways to turn up the tempo.

Nick Price

From all I've heard, it's a lot of fun. That's what I want to do, just go out and enjoy myself. I don't want to go out and beat thousands of balls and spend hours and hours on the putting green.

From a pitching standpoint, we need to contain the other team. We need to keep the ball in the park and give our defense the chance to make some plays. If we can do that, then we'll be just fine.

Jim Thorpe

From No. 11 on, I hit the ball very well. I felt my iron game was very good today, and then I hit two very good shots at No. 18.

Troy Smith

From my standpoint I'm going to try the hardest that I can to get the ball to the receivers in a position where they can get the ball and make a play.

From that point on, he always wanted the ball in his hands at the end of the ball game.

From my end, I think I've just got to work on being more consistent in practice, ... I've been catching the ball better, I've been making the right reads and cuts in practice and picking up the blitz. I just need to work on doing it more consistently every day.

From his position, he doesn't always get the assist. But he's good at getting the ball and getting it around the back and reversing sides of the field with it. His job is to get it into the offensive third.

Frisman came in and did a nice job for us. The big play was the long touchdown he had. That play helped his numbers, but he caught some balls at the end of the game. The pressure is on and they know we have to throw and he's still making the catches and gaining yards.

Gabe has been scoring real well and we need that; sometimes we don't have others scoring very well. Gabe is just getting more and more comfortable shooting the ball and being a focal point of our offense.

Dick Williams

Fundamentals are the most valuable tools a player can possess. Bunt the ball into the ground. Hit the cutoff man. Take the extra base. Learn the fundamentals.

From top to bottom, the league is a much better league than it has been in the last three or four years. All the teams in the Big 5 are competitive, which makes it anybody's ball game on any given night.

From the very beginning, we said that we were going to play baseball. The uncertainty as to whether Cuba was going to be part of it or not in baseball, as we say in Cuba, 'The ball is round.' We have done it now.

I don't remember a night like he had in my 30 years of coaching. They moved the ball around from side-to-side, and either they shot or they went inside.

Paul Davis

I don't remember a lot of it. I was out of it. It was like a golf ball coming at my head.

I don't think I'd ever seen her miss a game winner until that night. I mean she just doesn't miss in that situation. Everything we do starts with Angela, and that's who we want to get the ball to.

Felipe Alou

If anything, he threw too many fastballs. He's a ground ball guy. He's still keeping the ball down better than he did last year.

If a team is committed to running the ball then his strong suit is run blocking. We moved him around in a lot of zone schemes here. He is more for power football and needs to excel at passing. He will pin his ears back and go after people.

If a rugby league player, for example, can improve their speed by 0.1sec, it can mean the difference between them catching that ball at their fingertips and scoring a try, or missing it altogether,

Mark Richt

If a guy thinks every time he drops a ball you're going to drop him out of the lineup, it's very hard for him to gain confidence,

I don't think we're going to be satisfied with being a .500 ball club. Obviously we're not going to end up 20 or 30 games above, like a good team really would. There's still a chance that we could be in it right up to the end and there's a chance that if we're not, we could play spoiler. We all know we're better than a .500 club.

I don't think we played well as a defensive line. We lost Copeland Bryan. He is our best pass rusher without question. The first play of the game he knocks the ball loose.

I don't think we played bad. They just hit the ball (well).

I don't think we hit the ball as well as we're capable of, but tonight we scored runs when we needed to and got the job done.

I don't think we helped Tommy (Maddox) because we couldn't run the ball well.

I don't think we've made more than two errors in a game all year. Prairie Grove put the ball in play, and we didn't help ourselves out.

I don't think we totally dominated. I think it was a pretty tough ball game until the second quarter.

Rick Adelman

I don't think we're playing that well together offensively. I don't think that we're sharing the ball and moving the ball enough.

David Wright

I don't think we're in a slump. We hit some balls hard tonight, but just right at someone. We're not concerned.

I don't think we were ready for how quick they fed the ball in and shot. On offense, we had trouble with their double teams, and when we skipped the ball over to the wide-open player we missed some opportunities.

I don't think we were intimidated. Early on in the game we were just trying to hurry the ball and push the ball to make them run, but I don't think intimidation was a factor.

Larry Brown

I don't think you guys ever heard me say I wasn't pleased with the way he was playing until the last game. Even with all the other stuff that's going on every other week, I've never said anything except I was pleased with the way he's been playing and way he's trying. The last game, he was not aggressive. He shot the ball seven times. He deferred. I expressed that. That's one game.

Rob Reiner

I don't think you should necessarily listen to a celebrity just because he is one. But if you can marshal your celebrity and really steep yourself in whatever issue you're trying to promote, it can actually move the ball forward, and we've done that.