Famous Quotes & Sayings

He mentioned $500 per firefighter at Station One, ... It was just something (said) during negotiations to get the ball rolling. There was nothing shady going on.

John Olerud

He came up and in, and I?m just protecting the plate right there. I did a good job of getting the bat to the ball and got a little help from the wind.

He came such a long way. When we were younger, he would come out here and throw the ball a ton. Throw real hard. But over the years he has developed a little touch. He's making real nice touch passes." ()

Dwayne Smith

He came in when we were behind the eight ball and he took the initiative and turned the pressure from us onto them.

He came into that locker room and apologized to the whole team. He got frustrated when one of his teammates threw a ball out of bounds and showed it. I took him out and told him that we weren't going to do that, then put him back in.

We can move the ball around and we can grind it out,

Don Mattingly

We can make him go out there and take 100 ground balls but then he's not going to be able to play. It has to be the right kind of work.

We can make balloon arrangements with dozens of balloons.

Hines Ward

We can look back at that game all we want, but I think there was a lesson to be learned in it. You can put up all the numbers, but if you don't hang onto the ball and you shoot yourself in the foot, you're not going to win. It's something for us to keep in mind when we play them this time.

We can live with that if we had rebounded the ball better.

We can get them to turn the ball over a little bit. So we focused on that at halftime. I told them our worst basketball was behind us, so now we needed to go out and win this thing.

This was one of the more unselfish games we've played. The kids were looking for each other. Even the jayvees in the fourth quarter were looking to get the ball to those who hadn't scored. It was nice to see.

This was one of the best games we've played in a while. We shot the ball well and we played really, really good defense. We played about as good basketball as we can.

This was one of our better fourth-quarter games. All four quarters we played good defense and shot the ball well, and we rebounded very well.

This wasn't a must-win, but we had to play well because we've struggled a little bit lately on the road. Our kids played well. Down the stretch we just took care of the ball and rebounded. It was a great win. A terrific win.

Jeff Bagwell

Today it wasn't bad, for me to be able to come back after the other night and be able to bounce back. I'm happy with it. I don't expect to be able to know whether I can play right now. This is a little too early, I've got to get through my soreness first and then a little later on see what I can do. Right now my main focus is to get out there and throw the ball in between innings, get my legs under me, things like that.

Nikolay Davydenko

Today, it was my mistake because we had different balls (than were used in Montreal and Cincinnati). I tried to make it different, my tension for strings was harder here and I tried to make no mistakes because the tension was hard and I had more control. I tried to come back but at 6-5 broke my string. I took my old racket and I lost in the tiebreak. I played really slow, Chela played good today and tried to make winners, and for me, if I play slow I can beat nobody.

Today I told him to just get set, make sure the ball is down and then take off.

Whatever happens, we will have to have a manual count of the ballots and that could last up to two weeks.

Whatever happened we lost our concentration. We lost our focus. We lost our complete desire or hunger. That's the ball game.

Chris Burke

Whatever happened last year to propel us to the run that we made, it's really carried over to this year. Guys expect to win ball games and that's showing up in the plays we're making.

Jim Calhoun

There is nobody like him. When you watch Roy play, from a coaching standpoint, he's everything you want a player to be. He has composure and seems to want the ball in tough situations.

There is never a good time for a penalty. You want kids out there playing the ball and going hard. You can't correct hustle.

The people can be sure that their vote will be the same as the ballot that they wrote and put in the boxes,

The people that are here, they come up here for companionship and fun. I have a ball up here.

We talked all week about hitting the ball to right.

Ozzie Guillen

We talked about this all week and I felt like I let Duque down. I'm not trying to hurt my pitcher's feelings, but we had a plan before the game starts. Duque didn't throw the ball the way we like him to throw the ball. Most of the balls that got hit were hit hard. We thought he was going to give me four, five, six innings to get McCarthy ready to go. Our plans didn't work.

We talked about that. We said if we don't get it (on the pass), we're going to challenge you guys to see if you can punch it in. We did the same thing last week and scored and won the ball game.

We talked about (playing with) intensity in the second half, and... we just came out flat. We didn't get a lot of breaks -- not a lot of balls dropped for us early -- but that's no excuse. We just came out flat.

We talked about playing good passes to the feet and keeping the ball out of the air. Truthfully, that's the way we play best, when we just one-touch the ball around the everybody's moving into spots. That was fun.

We talked about playing at a faster pace, possessing the ball, taking care of the ball and shooting better. I thought we did all of those things fairly well.

We talked about picking up the defensive intensity, but we had trouble putting the ball in the basket.

We try to put as much pressure on the ball as possible. That frustrates the other team and opens up chances for us (on the counterattack).