Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Chad Campbell

It was a little chilly out there. I didn't play well, but it could have been worse. It's playing pretty long. The balls weren't going very far.

These balls weren't even close, so I walked every time. Finally my manager told me to just swing anyway, so I popped up trying to hit a ball two feet outside.

The start was definitely the difference. Jumping out like we did. The kids played great on defense. I thought they moved their feet. They were tipping balls away. Then on the other side we were finishing.

I've been that kid shagging balls in the dugout when I didn't even know what the game was. I've learned a lot from my dad, but also just being around the game.

Jim Thome

I've been out half the year, so today was a big day for me, getting out there, just seeing the pitching. The two balls I hit were good passes. For me, that's where I look. What kind of passes, how I feel in the box. Being out half the year, I was really happy with the first day, for sure.

Pete Moore

Things like that happen, but they don't happen three games in a row all that often. We'll come back Wednesday and I'm sure we'll get a lot of those balls to fall for us.

The wind was blowing and you are walking to that putting green, you hit a couple of putts, you watch how those balls roll on that putting green and you pretty much know it's going to be a challenge,

Dwane Casey

These are young guys and we're trying to win. For me to build a winning environment, you have to try to win every night. These guys were scratching and diving for balls and they deserved to win.

We just said, 'No balls over our heads,' which we were unable to do.

Jeff Davis

We just left two balls in the middle of the plate. It was the fourth league game in five days, we were a little tired.

Bruce Bochy

We just wanted to make sure we get our bullpen back in order. It gives him (Cameron) a day to track down balls and take batting practice and he's going to go tomorrow.

Scott Maddox

We just took too many strikes and swung at too many balls. Give Keegan credit. Once, they got three runs, I knew it would be an uphill battle.

Bret Bielema

We were putting some balls on the ground. The picks, as many times as we get our hands on the ball, we can't put them on the ground. That changes the momentum of a game in a heartbeat.

John Cole

We lost way too many balls off the zone. We have a long way to go to get better.

Phil Garner

We had three balls that should have been caught,

We had three balls hit to the infield that were all taken care of.

We had the momentum, but we weren't putting the balls in the goal. I felt with an extra guy out there we would be able to get the game into overtime.

We won on a different level of play. Things such as winning balls in the air, passing and challenging the other team aggressively were key throughout the game. We challenged and we played throughout. I'm proud of the efforts.

The public trusts city officials to call balls and strikes on this.

We felt we were having good at-bats throughout the game and it was going to come for us. We hit some balls hard, and we knew we were going to come back.

We hit some balls on the screws a couple of times.

John Gibbons

We hit some balls hard right at guys today. That's baseball, we also benefit from that, too.

We hit a lot of balls out of bounds today. That's not really like us. I hope we get settled down by the time the playoffs start.

We hit a lot of balls hard today. It was nice to see. I think if our base running would have been a little bit better, we could've opened that thing up even a little bit more.

We hit a lot of balls hard today, and we had some key hits. It was a good day overall offensively.

We hit a lot of balls hard this weekend; we just it them at people. We know we'll get it all together. Our swings are starting to come there. We'll be fine. Just have to keep hitting the ball like we did this weekend.

We hit a few balls and they made a few errors. Which is why really we didn't pick up a lot of hits.

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.

I'm down 0-2 and my first two swings it looked like I was taking good cuts but I had no shot of hitting those balls. I think if I would have hit it, it would have hit my hands they were cutting in so hard.