Famous Quotes & Sayings

We've got to keep the ball away from Merritt with our kicking game. That's not a phase you can rest in. You have a letup on a punt and they'll make you pay.

Bill Cowher

We've got to keep doing what we're doing - not turning the ball over, not getting penalties and playing smart.

We've got to have (Murphy) put the ball in the hole to have some success. We went about 12 minutes without scoring in the first half. We missed a lot of shots we have to make.

We've got to handle their pressure, we can't turn the ball over. We have to dictate the tempo of the game and not let them do that. We can get up and down the court too, and we'll trap and pressure them and do our thing. We are not going to change the way we play, but we will make some adjustments that will be minor and dictated by our strengths.

We've got to get to where we can throw strikes. We didn't, and when we did, they did a good job of putting the ball in play.

Antoine Walker

We've got to get the ball right to Shaq and make sure he gets going early.

Lloyd Carr

We've got to get the ball in there for seven points.

We've given up some hits here and there, but they've been keeping the ball in front and making plays like they're supposed to.

We've forced the other team to hit to beat us. We've forced them to put the ball in play and we've made the plays behind them -- and that's something we didn't do last year. We didn't play good defense behind our pitching and we walked too many guys and we've cleaned up those areas. It's really been a difference for us.

We've finished second in the conference two years in a row, but to get over the hurdle you've got to be able to put runs on the board. We've played a lot of low-scoring ballgames and we didn't score early in a ballgame ... so we kept coming back late.

Chuck D.

We've executed and gotten the ball to guys who can score. We've established our inside game and played pretty good defense.

We've done what the DOT has asked, now the ball is in their court,

We talk about footwork more than anything -- getting your feet in position to throw. He gets rid of the ball really quick and I think that's one of the reasons why, because his feet are always in a good position.

David Hawkins

We talk about every single play making a difference in the game. And early in the ball game we made a few errors and (Habersham Central) jumped up, 4-0.

Steve Sampson

We talk about defenders taking responsibility. The players that missed clear opportunities also have to take responsibility. That's how you win ball games.

We swung the bat well. We were doing that all year until the last week. We didn't hit the ball at all. We came out today re-focused. I thought our kids, for 6 1/2 innings, did a great job. It ended up not in our favor. I'm happy with the effort, but not happy with the result.

We swung the bat well, and put the ball in play. And we also did a good job of stringing those hits together; we had a lot of back-to-back hits in our big innings.

Aaron Rowand

We swung the bats much better today than what we showed. We hit a lot of balls at guys that made some good plays. We caught break on the ball Jermaine hit.

We swung the ball and switched fields real well tonight.

We sure will. I remember I used to play ball with him in the back parking lot because he was one of the last ones to be picked up.

E. O. Wilson

We sunk ourselves in the first half. Offensively, we weren't protecting the ball very well. We weren't countering our defensive stops with anything offensive.

We think big Black Rock has to be built. If it's $4 billion, it's $4 billion. Let's get on with it. I wear a Mariner hat and I get over to that ballpark in Seattle sometimes. I don't think that stadium got put up without state help, and it's not cheap.

We think athletically and experience-wise we should match up really well, but obviously Amarillo Arbor feels the same way. We're expecting a one or two-point game going right down to the wire, and the last team that has the ball will probably win the game.

We told them at halftime we had to run to the ball and not think so much and hopefully we could create some big plays defensively, which we did.

We told the kids that they needed to deny Dan, but don't foul him. He's clearly their best free throw shooter and the person you don't want with the ball at the end of a game.

We told the guys coming in that their pressure was going to be the key and fourth quarter their pressure got to our guards and we didn't get the ball inside like we did the first three quarters.

We told our kids the only way we can win this game is if we shot well from the outside early, because then the defenders have to come out. And then, if we swing the ball multiple times, the defense can recover the first time, but can they recover the second time? We wanted to try and wear them down a bit.

We told our guys after the interception that we were going to keep the ball on the ground and we were going to force them to stop our ground game, ... We were going to run it right down the pipe and see what happens.

We told him that you have to take the ball strong. Not only will you not get blocked, but you'll also draw fouls.

We told him he had to do those things but running the ball is so instinctive. A lot of things are not correctable. He did it. It's a lot of credit to him.

Mike Fratello

We tightened up a bit. We needed to get our own energy up. It was a matter of passing the ball and not getting beat off the dribble as much as we had.

We tightened things up defensively. We are playing defense well and we did the small things like getting fly balls and moving our runners over.

We tied it up and went on our run, but after that, we couldn't put the ball in the basket.