Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Cox

He's been one of the finer ballplayers in this league the past six, seven years. He battles in every at-bat. I like that kind of hitter.

Jeff Chapman

He's been good for us all summer. We started fitting right off the bat and it's been good.

He's been coming on. When he's been given an opportunity, he's been swinging the bat batter lately. It's good to see kids get rewarded like that who work hard each day.

He's been battling something the past few days. He will not play. We will see how he feels Thursday.

Jeff Saturday

He's done a good job battling through things when he has to. He's there each and every week.

Hopefully we can stay consistent with defense, pitching, and team unity. Also if our bats can continue to get hot, we should be able to stay competitive.

Phil Jaques

Hopefully we can just bat the once, get a massive score and put pressure on the second innings.

Hopefully (the loss to the Red Devils) will somehow help us out in the long run. Coffman is a good team and we've had some battles with them the last couple years. They've been playing real well and they haven't had Robby Gardiner.

The pain is still there. It goes from the lower back into my right leg. It started in my back because of my hamstring and it's still weak. I can't swing a bat and I can't even bend over for a ground ball.

Chuck Grassley

There is an uphill battle now for the Food and Drug Administration to re-establish itself as the real referee between the safety of the public and the profitability of the drug companies,

Phil Garner

When they're swinging the bats as good as they are, you hate to give them a day. You want to give them a day when they're not swinging the bat good. When you're swinging the bat good, you can't wait to get to the ballpark.

Chuck Todd

We may like to think politics is a battle of ideas and that the best idea wins out. But that's not true in most elections. Most elections are about the worst ideas losing, not the best ideas winning.

We make our own beer batter for the halibut.

Sean Maloney

We have to be fanatical about power consumption. It's not just about longer battery life, but when you look at rising oil prices, it becomes more and more important.

Brad Shaw

We have to, as players and as coaches, do a better job of preparing guys to play. We were not ready physically or mentally. We didn't seem to win many puck battles tonight.

We looked real slow with the bats tonight. Being outside for the first time with live pitching, that was a tell-tale sign.

We lost the battle of spin, but we won the battle in the courtroom.

Michael Hawley

We made substantial progress on several fronts during the first quarter. We generated good sales growth, as double-digit gains for blades and razors and Braun more than offset softness in certain battery markets and a significant unfavorable exchange effect.

Kit Bond

I pointed out on the floor last year, after Hurricane Katrina, we were very proud that one of our National Guard engineering battalions was called to Louisiana. And they did a magnificent job.

Huge game. Two points could have made that gap a little bigger, but now they're right there with us. It's going to be a battle every game.

Huntsman has really been battling his swing. But we've been looking for someone to be in the outfield regularly and he's kept a good mental frame and been a good leader in the clubhouse.

Michael Hussey

He wasn't going to bat tonight if it came down to that but I'm not sure how he'll pull up tomorrow.

Frank Robinson

He was fine. In his first game, he swung the bat decently and was fine in the field.

I thought we did a pretty good job after waiting around all day to play. We came out and played hard and even though we didn't swing the bats as well as I would have liked, I was pleased with our effort. Once again, we pitched well and played good defense and battled at the plate to score runs to win the game.

I thought we played really well all day long. To play them as close as we did in two games gave us some confidence. Wayne is 19-1 in the league and we were right in position to beat them twice. We had some guys swinging the bats well.

Yvette Girouard

I thought we played excellent and we had some chances but didn't quite capitalize. The game was closer than the score, but credit UCLA for making the play at the plate in the third inning and getting the one key swing of the bat to win it.

I thought we played a heck of a game up front and we talked about that. Some of these guys went to the freshman game. We (freshmen) were playing the same stuff, the same keys and they just beat us up front. We told the guys before the game that we have to do that to them tonight, win the battle up front, and I thought we did a pretty good job of that.

I thought we pitched well today and Blevins gave us his best outing of the year. We didn't swing the bats particularly well, but we got timely hits when we needed them. Of course, we are glad to win another series.

I thought we pitched very, very well, and gave our bats an opportunity to heat up. We took care of business. I thought overall it was a good day.

I thought we pitched two good games. We were able to swing the bats a little better and put some pressure on the other team.

I thought we hit him (Todd) well. We swung the bats well in the second game, but we just left too many men on base.

Roy Oswalt

I thought the way the team was battling and we had been seeing Maddux pretty well, if we could get something going with a hit or get somebody on, I had a good feeling we'd come back.

Scott Skiles

I thought the way that game unfolded made that a very good win. We knew we'd have a battle in the second half. We battled and made a lot of big plays on both ends. When it got really tight, we raised our level of play.