Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Patterson

Oklahoma lost a lot from last year but still has a lot. Neither team knows what it has until the ballgame is over.

It was a great ballgame from an excitement standpoint.

It was a good ballgame that kept going back and forth. Our pressure wasn't consistent, but I was proud of the kids.

They're in a little better shape right now of running the ballgame better. We're working very hard at it, but we're not quite there yet.

Mike Scioscia

There's been no indication that there is any damage in there that would impact him moving forward. But they're going to do some tests and we'll get a better idea this week exactly what his status is. I think as soon as he came out of last night's ballgame it was pretty ominous and pretty obvious that he wasn't going to be able to help us in this series.

Jack McKeon

If you have any chance to win a ballgame you can't let him beat you.

Carlos Zambrano

I don't want to talk about my hitting. My job is to pitch a good ballgame every time out. The triple was a gift. I take pride in my hitting, but I'm not a hitter.

I just tried to keep us in the ballgame and give us a chance to win.

Willie Mays

I remember that last season I played. I went home after a ballgame one day, lay down on my bed, and tears came to my eyes. How can you explain that? You cry because you love her. I cried, I guess, because I loved baseball and I knew I had to leave it.

Bobby Bowden

I didn't think that our other tailbacks were running very well. I felt like they were dancing too much and trying to pick their way through the line too much. We were determined to get him in the ballgame more, and we felt like we would be able to. He responded.

It was a very intense ballgame two great teams. These guys, they fought their guts out.

It was a tough ballgame to lose. We had some opportunities, and we didn't capitalize on some of them.

Danny Murphy

It's a whole different ballgame from years back. It's like any other business -- rising costs and a lot more paperwork.

Bill Laimbeer

It's a great matchup. Both teams have been eyeing each other all season long, from the very first ballgame we played.

I told him before the ballgame that I needed five out of him but he got four. And he told me before the game, 'I'll get you coach.' He stepped up. He had a good ballgame. He shot the ball well. He's always had it in him. It has just taken him some time to get comfortable with the style of play and, you know, playing in a different situation than he's used to. But, he stepped up tonight and made some big shots.

It might take us a couple of series to get adjusted. But it comes down to containing the quarterback (Sam Diehl) and making plays. That's how you win a big ballgame like this.

It was just a good ballgame and it fell our way, ... We had a couple of games earlier that didn't, but this one fell our way. It was our night.

Frank Robinson

It's the second day in a row in which he has come in a ballgame and has come head high -- up and in -- to a left-handed hitter,

I'm just really pleased with the way our kids have played so far. Really, since the first ballgame with N.C. State, we're consistently getting better. As a defense, I really like the way we're approaching things right now.

I'm seeing a degree of toughness. I'm seeing a degree of confidence that they can and will be in any ballgame they play in. I'm seeing a team that's going to rush the football as the year goes on and be able to throw it downfield as the year goes on.

The difference was the free-throw line. That's the ballgame when you lose by eight.

Bobby Bowden

All I know is they have done what they've had to do to win. The first week was very grueling because you played two games in one week, and we came out there. Then this ballgame here, you go away from home with a rookie quarterback, and you wonder how is he going to respond to the crowd, and how is the team going to respond to the crowd. You win that ballgame and, of course, that is the main stat you want, that win. So you just say, up to this point, so far, so good. We know we've got to get better because the people we are playing are going to get better.

You can't win a ballgame averaging nine strikeouts in the lineup and that's about what we had.

Drew Bledsoe

We feel like we missed out on an opportunity here. We made a lot of mistakes in the ballgame that really hurt us in the end.

Drew Bledsoe

We feel like we missed out on an opportunity here, ... We made a lot of mistakes in the ballgame that really hurt us in the end.

Royce Clayton

It kind of exemplifies what we hadn't been getting in this stretch. You just want to take some positive momentum into San Diego. We could've hung our heads after the first loss the first night, but we didn't, won a close ballgame last night, got some big hits tonight. All those things translate into some momentum heading into San Diego.

Sparky Anderson

No manager ever won no ballgames.