Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Raul Ibanez

I was just thinking about that to myself a minute ago. It seems like, later on in the game, we start squaring balls up a little bit more. We do a better job of hitting late in the game. The secret would be to be able to do that all game long. And we haven't been able to do that. I can't put my finger on it. I really wish I could.

I was just happy to get a few balls over the net and let my partner run around.

I think they'll find a way to keep us all involved. This is the West Coast offense. There's a lot of balls out there to be passed around.

Tommy Haas

It is always tough to play someone you haven't played before. Tonight was quite cool and the balls were quite heavy and it didn't seem like they were going anywhere. He let go in the second and I put it up a notch.

It is always good when you can get a lot of guys to catch a lot of balls. It is hard for the defense to key in on one or two guys.

Just a nightmare of a day. I left a lot of balls over the plate, and they did what you are supposed to do with balls over the plate.

I thought they were hot and I could have done a better job. I threw too many breaking balls and it cost me.

I think we need to work on our passing a little bit. We haven't blocked too many balls lately, so hopefully we can focus on passing and our blocking. Our defense has been coming around, but I'd say blocking and passing are two of the big keys we need to focus on from here on out.

Felipe Alou

I think we hit about four balls hard today, or was it three?

I think all the girls can become good hitters. Our whole lineup is capable of hitting balls into the gaps. It's just a matter of whether they can do it with runners on base.

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.

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.

Ron Gardenhire

I think he's been just missing some balls. I can show you struggling, if you want to see some highlights. He's really close to whacking it pretty good. I don't worry about him. He's a veteran. He knows how to hit.

Our passers did a good job. They gave our hitters opportunities to swing at some nice balls.

Our receivers have to get back to some balls, and our line has to protect a little better. So there's a lot involved, but if we can go into this game and just cut down the turnovers, we'll have a chance.

Joe Gibbs

Patrick is going to see that he made some real good things. He hit some deep balls and made some key plays for us, and that's partly what I'm referring to. And then he turned the ball over. We can't do that and Patrick knows that.

Glenn Hoddle

Paul's just doing some running, but he hasn't kicked any balls yet, so he's still a few weeks off,

Otto Rehhagel

Our opponents were certainly technically somewhat better than us, ... But they have to score their own goals ... later on they only operated with long balls and looked helpless.

Ben Roethlisberger

People need to realize, and I know they won't, that there was 45 mph winds out there, and it was tough, ... A lot of those plays were not (Tommy's) fault. The wind was knocking the balls down. There was no way he should have got the criticism he did.

People might wonder why we weren't up there taking a pitch in the seventh. Well, if you get first pitch fastball down the middle, we're going to hack. The disappointing part was we didn't get on top of the ball and hit ground balls and line drives the last couple of innings.

Stephanie Burnett hit a great ball. We hit the balls the rest of the innings, it's just we hit it right to them.