Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Buck

Usually if you have a shift on, they're paid to hit, not paid to bunt. That's a guy that can hit the ball out of the park with any pitch. With Giambi, if he takes a drag bunt, thank you for the single.

Dusty Baker

Usually, if he makes a mistake, they don't hit him out of the ballpark with that sinker, ... He made a mistake; that's what happens with youth. We have a young pitching staff and a young bullpen that's subject sometimes to walks and also subject to mistakes.

With two outs left for me before opening day, it gives me a lot of confidence. I was just trying to keep the ball down. Probably, I didn't have my best control in this game with my fastball.

We're doing everything it takes to win. I'm definitely enjoying going to the ballpark every day.

Larry Coker

We're doing a much better job of getting the ball out of the quarterbacks hands and putting the receivers in position to make plays.

... We're moving the ball and then we just freeze up.

Avril Lavigne

He was a punk, she did ballet. What more can I say.

We're most effective when we get a lot of guys involved at the offensive end. We did an excellent job in transition and moving the ball to their end. Once we got there, we made sure to get a good look.

With the makeup of our team, we've figured we can push the ball a little bit and get some easy buckets in transition. Coach (Kevin Stallings) has pretty much given us the freedom to do so.

With the home runs early, and it being 4-0, I thought we could hit some good balls because we had some men on base early. But it just never happened.

With Nikki pitching, or Taylor pitching, there aren't many balls hit to our fielders, and when there is one, our defense came up real big and made the plays. Even if there was a hit, we're not getting rattled. The six seniors kind of hold us together.

Chone Figgins

With my type of swing I just try to drive the ball and sometimes I may hit a line drive a little too high. That at-bat, I just did.

We're going to carry 13 on the varsity roster, with a couple guys we'll move up and down. A lot of this team is coming back. The last two years, we've only lost two starters, and a lot of the kids we still have are playing a lot of ball in the summer. So far, so good for us. And we'll see how everything works out.

We feel a lot better about ourselves. First, Jared Newsom and Jeremy Kelly have stepped back up to their capabilities. We shot the ball extremely well this past week. And we took better care of the ball. That's something we hadn't been doing.

We faced two of the best pitchers we've faced all year. We just didn't put the ball in play.

We faced a couple of good teams. This particular instance, we didn't hit the ball too well. Yesterday we had 10 hits. Today, we came out a little flat. We'll be all right.

We feel that they are a physical type ball club. From what we have seen on tape they are going to lineup and mash you.

David Ortiz

We're fine, it's passed already. Everyone's going to come in tomorrow and try to win some ball games.

Ron Gardenhire

(We're) facing a hot team that's got everything going for them. And we're not really locating the ball as good as we can. That's what it comes down to.

Hedo Turkoglu

We're just out there sharing the ball the way we're supposed to and having fun. It's working for us right now, and we're going to try and keep doing the same thing. We're passing the ball extra, and that seems to be the key.

We're just not shooting the ball well from the outside. A lot of those shots were uncontested.

We're just not hitting the ball right now. I don't know if it was his pitching or us not hitting. Guys told me after the game they felt like they should have had more hits.

We're just not good enough to get him the ball all the time. And once we started playing from behind, we didn't have much of a chance. At least it wasn't an elimination game.

Larry Brown

We're just not doing it. We're not matching the energy of our opponent. We're doing the same things we've done all year. We turn the ball over too much, don't make simple plays, and don't execute very well.

We're just not a good shooting team. When some teams get down double figures a couple of three's can get them right back into it but we don't shoot well from the outside so we can't come back from big deficits. But give Guilford credit. They beat us to every loose ball and out hustled us all game.

We're just hitting the ball real well. It's nice to be able to sit back and enjoy this. But we know it's going to get tougher.

We're just having a tough time coming up with a key base hit. We have to figure out a way to score some runs in the important parts of the game. I think we're going to be a good ball team, we just need to get some hits.

Jim Perrin

We're just having a snake-bit year. We hit the ball hard, but it's right at them or they make a great defensive play. You can't do anything about that, but I am concerned about the number of runners we're leaving on base.

We're getting ready to go into the teeth of our conference schedule. We've got a good ball club, there's no doubt about it. I don't have any complaints.

We're getting her the ball much better than we did at the beginning of the year. We're doing a better job at getting her the ball in positions where she is more able to score. Kate is a very strong low-post player. She's six-foot and solid.

We're getting good contributions from different kids, we're sharing the ball well, and we're defending better. There's been a better commitment to our preparation and to getting better.

Charlie Manuel

We're getting good balls to hit. And we're not missing them.

We're getting better every day. Tom is a great outside runner, Hunter runs the ball inside, and (fullback) Jamie Jackson gets around the blocks. And the offensive line is coming together, even though pretty much everyone is new. If we play as we've practiced, look for big improvement.