Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Schmidt

That was the game right there. We did a good job of closing out the half. We did a better job on the glass, got to some loose balls and hit the open shots.

Alex Gonzalez

That was something I needed. I've hit some balls hard lately, but I didn't have anything to show for it.

That was a great environment for me, ... It was good to be around a lot of quarterbacks and have a lot of balls thrown to you by different guys and it kind of worked out well for me when I went to the East-West Shrine game playing with some of those guys. It made it an easier transition.

That was my intent. We weren't going to come out and start flinging balls all over the lot. We're not going to put it on him to win the game, particularly early in the game.

That was amazing. He was dropping some unbelievable breaking balls on them.

Tim Smith

That's their type of game. We're able to create some turnovers, get some loose balls and make some plays in transition and that's where we're at our best.

That's what happens when receivers run the wrong routes, drop balls and fumble.

That's the poorest shooting night we've had all year. The open looks we had when we broke their pressure just didn't go in. We had more balls roll off the rim tonight than I've seen in any practice or game all year.

Matt Hasselbeck

That's unfortunate because, in the biggest game of your life, you want to play with the balls you've been playing with all season.

I was really impressed with how many balls we dug up tonight, ... And I think we're hard to match up with when we pass as well as we did, too.

Cameron White

I was probably the most nervous for the whole match when Mossy played and missed those first three balls, because I just knew it was the last over.

Ozzie Guillen

I was pretty impressed. The balls don't carry here much.

I was out in the back yard catching balls.

I think we bring an intensity to the game. We don't mind diving on the floor for loose balls. That's our job. That's why we're here. We go in there and do the banging.

Geno Auriemma

I think that Will, say what you will, she's going to rebound. She's going to chase balls down. She's going to play pretty good defense. And if nothing else, she understands our offense completely. She understands it like the back of her hand. She knows exactly what needs to be done.

I went out there and made some good reads, threw some good balls, did it quickly. Overall, I felt like I graded out pretty well.

Billy Donovan

I went off pretty good at halftime. I was getting frustrated watching balls go up from the 3-point line when guys are standing in the post with a 6-6 guy guarding them. They finally got the message.

Jhonny Peralta

I was watching how he was pitching to Michaels. He was throwing a lot of balls inside. That's what I went up looking for, a pitch inside, and that's where he threw it.

I was thinking I had to keep the fastball low to get as many ground balls as possible. I used fastballs and sliders. ... I feel very proud of having thrown a no-hitter, and I really don't have any other words to describe it.

Jim Edmonds

I was trying to figure out where the balls and strikes and the outs are posted today. Those are things you get comfortable with as a player. When you have to start looking for them all over again, it takes some adjusting.

Kamran Akmal

I was totally shocked when I was told after the innings that I took only 81 balls and completed the century.

I was trying to mix it up and make good pitches. I didn't make good pitches. Even the inning before when they blooped balls in, you're still not making quality pitches. There's no excuse.

I was throwing strikes and getting ahead. All of a sudden, I threw like eight (nine) balls in a row and I was like, 'What's going on?' I felt fine. I don't know what happened.

I was glad to see us come out early and swing the bat. We had a little bit of a slump and weren't hitting as well as we had been. It seemed like we had a lot of fly balls to the warning track, but we were not stringing it together.

Billy Donovan

I was getting frustrated watching balls go up from the three-point line, when those guys are standing 1-on-1 in the post with a guy 6-6 guarding them. It's hard sometimes. I'm constantly preaching to (Green and guard Lee Humphrey), 'When you're open, let it go.' Sometimes you have to change your thought processes.

I was getting by, but I was running a lot of long counts 3-0, 3-1. Then in that one inning, the fifth, they got a lot of balls, like grounders, through on me and they just kept doing it.

It felt so good just to make solid contact again. I was just missing a lot of balls here the last few games. It was great to hit one solid.

It feels good. It will be a couple of weeks before I can turn a double play and take balls at shortstop.

It felt good to be back on the field and to get a chance to work out the kinks. It was good to be out there catching balls and running routes. There was some good and bad. We were getting the springtime fire out there. For the most part, I think the intensity level of everybody was high.

Carl Crawford

It felt good. I hit some balls hard.

I think defensively we picked things up. We scrapped for loose balls. They beat us to loose balls in the first half. I thought down the stretch, we negated that.

I think I figured it out, ... All teams that start with T give me trouble. Tampa, Toronto, Texas. But in all honesty, it's the way it goes. The balls I threw on the corners they hit and the ones over the middle they crushed. It's just one of those nights.

Nate Robertson

I think I had life on my pitches -- I wasn't throwing beach balls up there, ... I don't think I'm tired.