Famous Quotes & Sayings

I thought both teams did an outstanding job on the defensive court and really made it tough on both offenses. It was a battle all night long.

I thought both teams battled hard for the entire 95 minutes. Saint Mary's is a good team that is battling for results and whenever Santa Clara and Saint Mary's play in anything, you know it is going to be a very competitive contest.

I think you're battling common enemies that a lot of other communities are. It's occurring in a lot of Midwest communities.

Kurt Warner

I think you gain something with your teammates when you do, when they see you battling through stuff. I don't know if they look down on you when you don't, but I know there's an increased respect when you do.

I think the gains (in New York) were mostly due to short-covering on battered issues.

Sadaharu Oh

I think the batter was too good for Ishii. It was the eighth inning and the batter came up with a big home run. If I knew he was going to do that, I wouldn't have (put Ishii into the game).

It is getting harder and harder to come up here. I am running out of arguments. These windmill projects will promote the county, yet we are fighting an uphill battle here. We need to get the projects moved out of the finance committee.

It is good that they got that win, and it's a nice comeback. We're an inexperienced team and we try to battle that with leadership. Our leadership is good this year. Because we are inexperienced the fundamentals sometimes get us, and that is still key. Once they break through that beginner's, stage we will see progress.

Lambeth got a big-time home run, and Henderson swung the bat well tonight. That's the most confidence I've ever seen him have at the plate.

Lakeside hurt us a little with the option. But we preach getting turnovers. We won the turnover battle by three (5-2) and lost. We need to win those games.

I was concerned that our energy would be used up by that run we had in the second (quarter), because whenever you go on a run and you're down by that much you can get really tired. But Jason hit that three off the bat and that got us right back where we needed to be.

Andy Roddick

I was coming in expecting just a huge battle and, you know, it's always nice when things go your way,

He might win a batting title one day. I'll go on record as predicting that.

He came out right off the bat and threw strikes and competed well. I think this is a maturing process. The more games like this we get into and see how guys do under fire ... it was really good to see our guys meet the challenge.

We can hit and throw. Our pitchers throw live batting practice in a batting cage. There's not a whole lot we can do.

Robert Lewis

We can do it four times in a row. We have a formidable team... our batting is quite potent and our spin bowlers have been doing the trick for us all season.

Whatever needs to be done, he gets it done. He's a very consistent fielder and makes routine plays pretty much every time -- knock on wood. And he's gotten better with the bat since day one.

There is no easy way to bathe a hummingbird.

We've been very lucky, but some of that is kids fighting hard and battling and being in the right place at the right time. We emphasize defense and rebounding, and that was the difference in the game.

We've been trying to work him back in gradually. Him in the order really opens a lot of things up for us offensively. There is so much more we can do with his bat in there.

Deron Williams

We've been trying to get there (.500). We've been battling every night to get there. We look around our league and teams are losing, it's the perfect time to make a run before the All-Star break.

We just have to keep swinging the bats and it will come. We'll snap out of it soon.

We just have to be mentally prepared. Because it's a tough place to play. It will be a tough battle no matter how young they are.

We're pretty well battle tested. A little bit of everything's gone on here.

Cory Schneider

We're pretty familiar with them. We know all of their guys and how they like to play. They know how we play. It's going to be a battle of wills.

Cory Schneider

Were pretty familiar with them obviously, so we just need to drop the puck and play. It's just going to be a battle of wills.

We took a really good shot at them tonight. They're a very good club, and they withstood it and really swung the bats all the way through.

Dana Milbank

We're one of the most reviled subsets of one of the most reviled professions. We're going to lose the battle every time.

We're obviously going to be looking for a bat, and everybody is always looking for pitching. It's the typical stuff -- a bat and some pitching.

Pascal Leclaire

We're playing with a lot of confidence right now. We won a lot of battles in front of the net and on the boards and I think that's why we won.

Gabe Kapler

When he swings the bat well, he?s fun to watch. There?s no better right-handed hitting batter in the league. You could make that case.

Phil Garner

When he swings the bat like we've seen the last couple of days, he very well could be that guy.

When he's out there on the mound, he's gonna give you everything he's got. Even if things aren't going well, he's gonna want to stay out there and battle through it. That's the kid of kid he is. He's got a lot of heart.