Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Smith

It wasn't clicking tonight. Some balls were there, and we just didn't make the plays. And turnovers killed us.

Jack Wilson

It makes sense. I'll get a couple more rounds of BP and some more ground balls. I'll run on the treadmill to slowly but surely get up to a certain speed just to get some juice back.

It's like night and day, ... There were times during that stretch where balls would fall in here and there. You weren't getting the breaks. I'm definitely getting some breaks the second half of the year I wasn't getting during the first half.

Mark Twain

It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling

Jim Edmonds

It's hard to tell. I hit some balls in batting practice I thought were going to be homers, and they weren't. And a couple I didn't think would be, and they went into the seats.

It's how many different balls we can get in the air. If one falls, we know we've gone over the limit.

Matt Moore

That's the difference between the offense clicking this week and not clicking last week. We were in sync tonight, and it was just players making plays. You can't pick out one guy. We had guys catching balls all over the place and spreading it around to people, and when your quarterback is making great decisions, it's a hard offense to stop.

It's nice to have the bats come around. We had a bunch of hits, balls hit hard. Maybe we can get some confidence and get going again.

Marat Safin

It's still very painful, I have to think about every movement on the court, cannot hit the balls as I would like to,

The breaks started going our way at that point. We had some balls that went off of horses and other things went in our favor.

Balls that were hit to the outfield weren't even damp. The outfield just soaked it up. It was pretty incredible.

Jimmy Rollins

Balls are getting down the lines, in the gaps. I've been finding the corner.

As long as we can run, I'll take pass balls or balls in the dirt. We spend time in practice working on reading the ball in the dirt and moving up, today we had some kids do that.

A sleep. They just weren't very physical, they weren't alive. They didn't get any loose balls and every time we turned around they (Bluff) were trying to double us and we didn't see the open people... they were just not with it. And that type of play will get you beat.

Todd Walker

As long as I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, which is catch the balls I'm supposed to catch, then I'm happy.

That's me, contact all over the place. Ground balls, fly balls, that's my game. More times than not, I'll take that. I'll definitely take that with the defense I have behind me here.

Alana is a very gutsy player. She has done a great job this year in the outfield, and I expect her never to let anything fall. She makes big plays and has done a good job at catching things in front of her and diving for balls that aren't.

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.

It's the worst system in the world to have multi-balls and just use the nearest one. When a home team score suddenly all the balls go missing.

It's one of those things where our keeper got his hands on three balls and only stopped one.

It started off going back and forth. They got up on us because some loose balls didn't go our way and some shots didn't fall.

It started going through my mind, 'Okay, how many balls can we chuck into the water after this drop?'

It's looking good, ... There are a lot of balls up in the air. There are several other sports that haven't finalized their packages. But there are also some new distribution outlets that are looking for sports.

Joe Crede

It just had eyes. That makes up for all those balls I hit hard that went right at people.

Rick Carlisle

It just goes to show you even if you shoot well, the turnovers are going to get you. You would love to have a chance to see if you can continue to shoot a good percentage, but those balls you lose to turnovers are fast-break opportunities for the other team. The wins, you take them and run.