Famous Quotes & Sayings

John has a knack for making things happen batting where he does.

John had one target only and that was to win. It looked like a straight battle between John and Valentino Rossi, but I think they pushed each other to the limit and both ended up watching the last 10 minutes of the session.

David Eckstein

Juan has wheels and can handle the bat pretty well. Tony knows what he is doing. Juan is the type of hitter who can do a lot once he settles in and gets in his groove. He has a great stroke down through the zone. He's not the only one who struggled early. I hadn't been swinging the bat that well either. He's going to mean a lot to this lineup over the long run.

J.R. is just J.R.. He fights and battles and keeps us in every game.

Jim Haslett

I think it's a good rivalry. Any time we play them, we rise to the challenge. I think all our football games are close. Even the game we had in Baton Rouge (in November) in front of about 10,000 people, it was one of those battles. It helps when both teams know each other well.

Lance Berkman

I think it's a good position to be in because we'd like to get off to a good start, but if we don't, we know we can battle back from it.

I think it'll be a three-team battle between us, Wayland and East Longmeadow.

I think it had to be a little frustrating for them. But you have to give us some credit, too. We did a good job on defense, especially down the stretch. It was a tough shooting night for both of us. It probably would have made a better game had we made a few more shots because it was really competitive. It just came down to who made the plays when they needed to make them. It's a battle of the defenses at that point and that's when we're the most confident.

Cory Lidle

It broke his bat and went 330 feet. I figured it was going to be right there, but it kept back there. It definitely would've been a home run last year.

It became clear that his bat was not going to progress to the point where it would take him to the big leagues. We talked about the notion of putting him on the mound for a long time. Ultimately, we were waiting for him to really want to do it.

I also thought Josh Stevens ( 2-for-4) swung the bat well today, but we had several guys who swung the bat well. And you've got to have that (hitting) up and down the lineup to be successful.

He was a late-inning stud all through college and continued in his first pro year. He has an 88-90 fastball with a good slider. He's an outstanding strike thrower, missing bats down in the zone with a low, three-quarters delivery. He has presence, confidence and instincts on the mound with a history of success.

He was a good friend and Extension director. He went to bat for all of us. We're certainly going to miss him.

Edward Kennedy

He was a constant profile in courage on countless issues, continually insisting that the Senate live up to its ideals and always willing to wage lonely battles for noble causes.

He walked about a half hour, had his bath and is doing fine.

Jason Kendall

He used all his stuff on both sides of the plate. We had a good game yesterday. We didn't swing the bats well today.

He could impact a game in so many ways that he didn't always need to score. We don't often have a prolific scorer in our system. I was even able to hold Kenny Battle down to 18 points a game.

Glen Davis

He didn't make it. He was being transported to Baton Rouge General. He didn't make it I heard. I heard he passed in the ambulance.

Bruce Bochy

He didn't have a full tank. It's tough to pitch when you're not at full strength. He's still battling this thing. He hasn't gained all of his weight back.

Will Rogers

He can take a batch of words and scramble them together and leaven them properly with a hunk of oratory and knock the White House door-knob right out of a candidate's hand.

He can pitch. I saw him last summer in a wooden bat league. He's crafty, just like Cornelius. He's a competitor. When he gets on that mound, he wants to send that hitter to the dugout.

He deserves that chance. The way he swings the bat, I think he can handle it. His bat speed is tremendous.

He closed his eyes and just swung. He got the good part of the bat on it, and it was a deep shot.

Walt Whitman

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won

Phil Garner

He just took our bats and shoved them up our bat racks.

John Glover

He kept battling them. He didn't throw a lot of strikes but he got some big outs.

Greg carried us the whole game. He just took it upon himself. This is his senior year, his last home game at Battle Creek Central and he was determined not to let us lose.

Green has stepped up big time for us. She has called some great games and has also done tremendous at the plate. She was a walk-on in the fall and I didn't know what to expect out of her but she's done very well in stepping in for (junior catcher) Erin Zeller, who has been battling a shoulder injury.

Bob Riley

has been beaten and battered the last 24 hours.

Guys took their place and did a terrific job with the bats and we were pitching well. We don't have Scott back, but we have Larry and Reggie back. Both of those guys can handle a bat, so you don't push as much with them as you would with some of the other guys.

Dusty Baker

Guys tell me they sleep on the road a lot easier and better than they do at home, ... At home, you end up waking at 7:00 in the morning because you're used to getting up early. On the road, you're not worried about sleeping in and missing batting practice. You're always conscious here of oversleeping. You don't want to wake up in a panic, especially if it's cloudy or dark outside. If it gets sunny early, you're jumping out of bed and it could be 6 o'clock.

Half the battle is getting every player to realize how they are going to benefit the team and what they should do all of the time. Nikki knows what she's supposed to do. She comes in for two minutes, five minutes, whatever it may be, and she's physical, crashes the boards, grabs as many as she can, sets the screens. She knows it.

Stephen J. Cannell

So many people get involved with carrying grudges and having these moral battles with people, where they cast themselves as the righteous and the other guy is the dirtbag. They waste tons of energy on it, create all kinds of darkness around themselves and the other person. It gets you nothing.