Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe has really come on in the past few weeks, and he has done a great job at posting hard, and our guards are doing a nice job at recognizing that and getting him the ball inside.

Josiah Johnstone ran out of his head. He did a great job. We took a lot of points from them in the field events and they started to stack up. To come that close to them, even when we were not in the ball park, I'm really pleased, especially with the boys winning both relays.

Steve Cook

Josh set the tone on the mound today - an infield hit after six and a third. We had a couple balls hit right at us. We played solid baseball behind Josh.

Josh is working with Pat, and he could be even better next season. He's working really hard. He consistently throws his fast ball in the 84 to 86 miles per hour range. He has thrown it once at 87, and the other pitchers are close to that.

John just got in the right spot at the right time, got the ball for some jump shots. He was consistent.

John has that focus you can never teach in 1,000 years. We'll put the ball in his hands from now until he graduates. His basketball and social maturity is unbelievable.

Barry Alvarez

John has practiced very well. He has thrown the ball extremely well through practice. You always like to see it carried over to the game. That's exactly what I saw - what I was expecting to see.

John Hall recovers a fumble, does a somersault, spikes the ball and goes out and chokes on a big kick his next play. I thought that was beautiful.

(Jude) Crabtree and Taylor were back at defensive end and had a good ball game. Tanner Williamson has won a spot in rotation at defensive tackle. Overall, the defense played pretty well. We only gave up two touchdowns.

J.T. lost control a little bit toward the end, but he battled all day, especially with the cold. And the 10 strikeouts was especially good for the defense, keeping the ball out of play.

J.R.'s man was playing off him with help defense, expecting me to come off looking to score - which I was. But J.R. was wide open so I gave him the ball and he took it from there.

J.P. recovering that ball is about as big a play as you're going to make in a game.

J.J.'s not a guy who's a selfish player. He knows that if he's not hitting his shot, he gets the ball to his teammates like me tonight. I was open and hit some shots.

Richie Sexson

I talk to him every day. He's one of my better friends in the game. I talked to him two days ago and everything was fine. He was hitting the ball the other way. It felt like he was doing some of the things he used to do.

I suspect the stats tell the story. We couldn't have shot the ball much worse in the first half.

Robert Pires

I tackled to get the ball but he didn't. He made the tackle to catch me and he did.

Jeff Bagwell

I swung at a couple of high fastballs, but I'm getting the bat head there. I just need to get the ball down a little bit. He's a guy that just comes in and throws hard. Whether you have 35 or 40 postseason at-bats, a guy throwing 100 miles per hour, it's not that easy.

Jeff Bagwell

I swung at a couple of high fastballs, but I'm getting the bat head there, ... I just need to get the ball down a little bit. He's a guy that just comes in and throws hard. Whether you have 35 or 40 postseason at-bats, a guy throwing 100 miles per hour, it's not that easy.

I take my hat off to Erickson. He's a polished high school pitcher who has command of three pitches and moves the ball in and out. It's impressive.

I think it probably wasn't their defense as much as it was our shot selection. If we had better ball movement in that quarter, we would have had better shots, like we did the first three quarters. I can't say their defense was that great, we just needed better shots.

I think I threw the ball well. That's the only thing I can control.

I think it helped us out a lot when Knapp got in foul trouble. She's one heck of a ball player.

LaDainian Tomlinson

I think it definitely changes things a lot because he's obviously one of our playmakers, ... I think our offense, hopefully, opens up a lot more and we'll be able to get the ball down the field some and put more points on the board.

I think it is still going to be competitive at that position. But Leon has shown a lot more understanding of what we want out of the offense, what he is seeing on defense, seeing the whole picture and putting it all together better. That has been fun to watch. He is really throwing the ball very accurately.

I think it calms everybody when they're on the mound. I think what they also realize is they aren't Roger Clemens out there, and the ball is going to be put in play. (Batters) relax a little more hitting-wise because they think they don't need as many runs.

Mark Turgeon

I think I probably built him up too high. He's struggled shooting the ball the second half of the season.

Seth McClung

I think I pitched fine, but not well enough to win. I tried to give my team an opportunity to win the ball game. It just didn't work out for us today." ()

I think in the second half we started to play much better. We started switching the ball from one side to the other. We had some guys running to the ball. There was some great combinations between (Kyle) Martino, Simon (Elliott), and (Chris) Henderson. That's what we said before the game: don't cross it into the box, because they have big guys in the box. Just cross it in on the ground, and you never know what will happen. And basically, we were lucky to get that goal.

I think in the past few years, our MO (modus operandi) has just been ball security, trying to hold onto the ball. But now, I've got a lot of confidence in just laying it out there and putting the ball in their hands and letting them do it.

Ken Whisenhunt

I think in the natural progression of things, he's going to get more balls. The thing you have to remember is Heath's a rookie, you can't just throw him in there and expect we're going to throw the ball to him all the time.

I think in the first half we were looking to the officials for help. It was a very physical ball game and we didn't adjust. At this level you can't look for excuses. I thought we handled it better in the second half.

It all starts with pressure. They also put the ball up for grabs a couple of times.

Steve Coleman

It all starts on the mound and Dalton came out and gave us a great effort today and we were fortunate to win that one. And I thought Brian came in and was rocky at times, but got us deep into the ball game and gave us a chance to win.