Famous Quotes & Sayings

Game 2, I don't know what changed (but) we couldn't pass a ball. I have a grandmother, she's going to turn 100 on Feb. 9 and I know she could have passed those balls better than we did.

Andy Gray

For my money, Duff servicing people from the left with his balls in there is the best option.

Jeff Samardzija

Brady and Mo put up some crazy numbers. I just caught a couple of balls, but those two were going crazy. They were scoring touchdowns left and right.

Brittany (Kent) was huge for us tonight, as far as rebounds. She got in there and picked up some loose balls and got some shots inside and kept us in it there for a while.

Ned Yost

Boy, the infield is like concrete out there. Ground balls get by you in a hurry. We can use the good weather to get our work in but you'd like to see a little rain at night to soften up the fields a bit.

Even though the weather is nice for this time of the year, it's still too cold for these pitchers to be throwing a lot of balls outside, so we stayed in the gym this week and worked hard so when we do get outside, we will be strong and ready for the season.

Believe me, there's no sense of complacency in here at all. We're going out and giving it everything we've got. Bottom line, we're not getting a lot of love in key situations. We've had some good at-bats and hit balls hard, but we're not getting any breaks. We're going to work our way out of it.

Big power hitters can hit balls out of this ballpark. We watched it last year, we watched it this year.

Dick Advocaat

Everybody knew what to do. We got second balls well and never let them escape. We didn't give a chance away. We deserved to win. They are getting back in shape now. We still have to see the players grow and improve.

Nancy Lopez

Everybody was scrambling around trying to find balls for me.

Everybody goes out and stomps down the divots made by the horses. People toss balls around or hit balls with small mallets. The kids love it.

Curt Schilling

Every mistake that I make, we're paying for, ... It's a corner you try not to back yourself into, because you tend to pitch tentative, and I can't do that. I left two balls up in the zone, splits. One was the double off the wall. Another was up.

Reggie Jackson

Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you.

Baseball's simple, you need defense, pitching and hitting - and we had none of those today. Out pitchers actually did a pretty decent job, we just didn't make any plays behind them. Ohio had some balls fall in for them, but we didn't help ourselves much.

Lindsay Davenport

As the match went on, ... I felt like I was getting better rhythm and on top of the balls ? and being a little bit more consistent with my shots.

A couple of those balls were a little more jump balls than I wanted them to be. The rain kind of got me a little bit. ... We felt we could exploit them that way.

J. J. Johnson

Some seeing-eye ground balls, there's nothing you can do about that. I did give up a few hard hits.

Some pitchers are going out there doing the best that they can. Basically I think that it's just mental. Some balls are hard to catch. But it's just the way that the ball is rolling this year.

One group found a bunch of golf balls piled up in a group. Another group found a small (live) turtle and someone else found bones. They turned out to be bones from a hard-head catfish.

Chris Albright

Once you get up on the road, I think it built our confidence, ... We got two goals off dead balls, which is something we have been kind of stressing all year. Coming in here, we normally don't get any points. So a point for us at this stage is OK. The way the game went is a bit disappointing, but we'll take it.

Defensively I've been trying to encourage the girls to be more confident in their defensive play. Some balls are going to hit the ground, but you have to be confident.

Tim Duncan

Defensively, I thought we were pretty solid. Our game plan was there, but it?s just about putting some balls in the hole.

Jon Gruden

The throw he makes to Galloway with the division title on the line says a lot about what a clutch performer he is. That wasn't a slant or a wide flare, that was a 44-yard throw that landed right on the screws. He got hit a lot, and we had some balls batted down. He's got great resolve.

John Whisenant

I've always liked her. She's got her head in the game, plays hard and plays for a good coach. She knows how to compete at the championship level. My only question is why she didn't play outside at that size. But the way she rebounds, who cares what size she is. She gets rebounds, loose balls and she's shown that she can pass and shoot from out there, better than some of us thought.

I've always been his biggest fan even when I've been on the other team. We all know what he can do on defense. Running those balls into the gap, you're going, 'That's a double or a triple.' Then I had flashbacks from his Diamondback days ruining my games from the other end with his glove.

Chris Baker

I waited for a while to get back in the flow of things, ... I had a lot of balls thrown my way in college, so to get back to that, I'm pretty excited about it.

Larry Coker

Sometimes you don't get the catches because you don't get the opportunities. We've got to get more balls their way. There doesn't have to be any big, intricate, huge things downfield. Just get it in their hands. And once we get the ball in their hands, we've got to make some big plays with it.

Larry Coker

Sometimes you don't get the catches because you don't get the opportunities, ... We've got to get more balls their way. There doesn't have to be any big, intricate, huge things downfield. Just get it in their hands. And once we get the ball in their hands, we've got to make some big plays with it.

Tell them I will bring soccer balls next time,

Danys Baez

Sometimes they hit two hard line drives right at the chest, that are mistakes, and they're out and you win the game. Sometimes you make good pitches and a couple of ground balls find the holes and you lose the game. That's baseball.

Nate McLouth

I've really worked on specifics, like my top hand. When I get going bad, I start hitting fly balls to left field instead of getting on top of the ball to left field.

It was tough out there, some wet balls, whatever. I think their team might have gotten a little more pressure on me than our team did on them. But that's the way it goes. I've still got to go out there and perform.

Xavier Malisse

It was tough. He didn't give me any rhythm. Balls with no pace are tough for me. Other guys hit through the ball, but he spins the ball, and plays smart. I like to grind and he does too.