Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lyle Overbay

We got good guys to hit and run, to steal bases so we don't have to wait for the three-run home run. But it's always nice to have that option. ... It makes everybody better in that lineup.

Alex Rodriguez

The 3-2 slider, you really tip your cap. I couldn't believe it was a 3-2 slider. That situation - bases loaded, the runners going - they deserve it.

That was huge. There was no doubt in my mind that was the right decision. You have to go for it in a situation with the bases loaded. If anything, I had one or two good innings left.

That was very important. That's how we won, by running the bases well and stealing. I thought the girls played decent, and they didn't get down on themselves.

That strikeout wasn't what lost the game. We didn't execute earlier. You leave the bases loaded, and that really hurts you.

We are different than last year. We don't have a big home run hitter. We still run the bases well. Last year the guys worked hard, but they didn't know how good they could be. This year they knew there were some high expectations.

We couldn't get much going offensively, but we had one good inning where we ran the bases really well. Douglas played well enough to win, but they just couldn't get the big hit.

Mike Scioscia

We can't get into a slugfest with these guys. We have to manufacture, we have to run the bases hard and we have to run them well. We're confident we're going to do that and that's the type of game we have to bring.

Mike Scioscia

We can't get into a slugfest with these guys, ... We have to manufacture, we have to run the bases hard and we have to run them well. We're confident we're going to do that and that's the type of game we have to bring.

Evan Wolfson

When it comes to special use of forts and military bases and public parks, where they're getting terms nobody else gets, that has to stop.

Other than the win at Southern Mississippi, I think this is the best that we have played all year. We got some timely hits and managed to get on base, either with good at bats or getting hit by pitches. Then we ran the bases well and produced with runners in scoring positions.

Robert Altman's Nashville is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining.

Please keep going. Please go out. I just wasn't sure. But once it cleared, I didn't think I could run around the bases fast enough to get in the dugout.

P.J. set the tempo early. We scrapped, clawed, stole a few bases and got clutch hits when we needed them.

Pierre's too dangerous. He'll slap down a bunt with the bases loaded. I wanted Lowell.

Rafael Furcal

It doesn't mean anything, ... I just try to go play the game and try to steal as many bases as I can.

We had six hits, but we couldn't bunch any together. We had the bases loaded with one out in the sixth and scored only one run.

We had plenty of chances, but we just didn't capitalize. We loaded the bases with nobody out and can't get the run in. We just didn't capitalize today.

Allan Ray

The last two years, Coach Wright's been real in depth with what he wants us to do. He definitely defined everyone's roles on the team. He basically just bases the offense on guys doing what they do best.

Mike Scioscia

The last month of the season I think there were a lot of similarities that started to manifest in our club that did in 2002. I think our situational hitting all of a sudden got back to where it needed to be, we're running bases well. We're going to get a chance to get into our game hopefully, and if it can emerge like it did in 2002, we have a chance to get on that roll.

The long-term winners will be the big companies we all know by name now. In the shorter term, the smaller firms are doing a good job of building customer bases and rolling up the technology they'll need to compete.

Smith was tremendous in keeping them quiet and off the bases and making sure we had a chance to hang on and win. That's just what Bill does. He's been doing it for us all season and will keep doing it. He just goes out there all the time and competes.

Derek Jeter

He was running around the bases so much, maybe he should be a leadoff hitter.

This slow relaxation of energy is utterly different from the mechanism in single bases that transforms the energy into heat in less than a trillionth of a second.

(Cody) didn't run the bases really well, but we we'll take what he did at the plate and what he did on defense any day. That was a good trade off.

A number of times, we had the bases loaded and we'd get that third out. We just couldn't capitalize on it." ()

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Normally we wouldn't race two times in three days, but we wanted to cover our bases and preview the course.

Herbie Hancock

The result is a music that allows us to all go outside the pigeonholes the music business forces us to stay in. We're breaking down expectations, walking the tightrope, while not scaring our fan bases away.

Jeremy Corbyn

Russia has gone way beyond its legal powers to use bases in the Crimea.

Corey (Brown) was the difference offensively for us. He drives in people with the bases loaded and he scores a big run early, there are very few people who could score on that ball.

Cuthbertson did an outstanding job as a closer. In the eighth inning they had the bases loaded and he shut them down. We tip our hat to him for keeping us in the game.

An issue like this can get both (conservative and liberal) bases excited.