Famous Quotes & Sayings

You hate to see a game like this. Even if you win you feel bad. But we got a chance to get our bats going and we got some valuable experience for our pitcher.

You hate to say it, but there's a bit of a breaking in period, during when a guy gets needs a break, to pitch a good game and get good results, and the confidence grows. That's what we're trying to get now, a positive roll. He won a spot in Spring Training, and now he's battling to continue to pitch here. He's facing an 'A' lineup every night, but, as a pitcher, you have to be able to separate that and understand that it's about making pitches.

You had to redo the whole place, which was fine with me. I blew out the kitchen and bath to a shell.

You have to have a desire to want to play and continue to battle. Sometimes, with an uphill battle like this one, you have passengers. It's hard because it's a tough game with a lot of adversity. Some guys just weren't up to the challenge.

Frank Robinson

You have to give the Korean team some credit. If you make a mistake they'll put the bat on the ball.

Frank Robinson

You have to give him credit for some of it. But some of the responsibility falls on our shoulders. We're not swinging the bats very well.

The pitchers, again, did a great job of holding them to only three hits. It was the errors that cost us this game. They used the same pitcher in the second game. After 11 innings, we still couldn't seem to get our bats going.

Mark Helprin

When I was very young, I used to clean up after my parents. If I stay in a hotel, I make the bed and clean the room when I get up, even the bathroom mirror, for which I carry a tiny bottle of ammonia.

Saku Koivu

What we are hoping is that we've had to battle till the end and really maintain our focus here. I think the momentum is going for us right now, and hopefully we can bring it to the playoffs.

Raul Ibanez

We've put together big innings the last two nights. We swung the bats well this series.

Loren Roberts

What a week to break in. It's a great golf course and you just have to go out and battle the weather. It certainly makes it exciting.

Matt Barnes

What an effort by my kids. These kids kept battling and battling. We had a chance. We kinda showed what Olympus is all about. We've got a lot of character and heart. O We knew we were heavy underdogs coming in. We were under the radar, and we were one shot away from going to the championship.

What can I say? We just didn't give up. We kept swinging the bats well. It took off a lot of the pressure coming back from down three with two innings left. That was huge for us.

Greg Walker

We tease Joe all the time. We tell him, 'You've got the league set up now.' But teams can't get him out going by the book anymore. If Joe swung the bat like this all year, I'm sure some pitchers would be a little more careful with him than they've been in the postseason.

Wesley Francis did a great job for us today. We swung the bat well in the first game, and we played good defense throughout both games.

Throwing on the side doesn't equate to spring training. There's just not the same intensity. There's nobody with a bat in his hands telling you that you just made a mistake.

Willie Randolph

We've been swinging the bat well all year. Everyone contributes to that.

We've been swinging the bats well, and hopefully that continues. It's nice when they come out swinging. It makes it a lot easier for us.

Dan Davis

We've been swinging the bats very well compared to the last couple of years. If we continue to do that offensively and hit in good situations when we have guys in scoring position, we'll do OK.

Alex Rodriguez

We've been swinging the bats progressively better the last three days. We have to work on being more consistent.

John Gibbons

We've been swinging the bats pretty well. I really like how our offense is built.

Ned Yost

We've been swinging the bats OK, with the exception of (Wednesday night), ... I think every team has those games where it seems like you can't get anything done.

Jack Wilson

We've been swinging the bats great lately. We've been outhitting most of our opponents. Most of the time we haven't been getting the big hits. Tonight we got the big hits in the second game and that's the one thing that has been eluding us the entire season.

Ed Orgeron

We tried to turn it into a position to see if we can get our second team ready in case something happens to Brent. We had a battle there and we still have a long ways to go. The speed of our offense wasn't what we needed and what we expect to have with Brent.

We talked about how there's probably going to be a stretch in the game where things don't go like we'd like them to go. We've just got to battle through those times and keep playing defense and good things will happen.

Patrick Sharp

We just played the way we wanted to for three periods. We got away from it early and were trading chances with them and were playing sloppy defensively. As the game went on, we tightened it up. We won the battles we needed to.

We just wanted to get back on the winning track. We came out swinging the bats really well today and that was good to see.

We weren't going to give her a three, no way . . . . But she hit those others, and you have to give them credit for battling their way back into it.

The resignation of Justice O'Connor creates a devastating and dangerous moment for reproductive health care and women's rights. With so much at stake, Planned Parenthood will be on the front lines of the Supreme Court battles to ensure women's health is protected.

There's going to be a lot of back and forth, charges and counter-charges. There's going to be a number of legal battles over the legitimacy of the elections. So there are just so many issues that have not been answered, it's very difficult to see what's going to happen in the future.

There's not a club I've had that Travis Parrott wouldn't bat for. He's that good.

There's no doubt our goal was to make it back to Little Rock and to win state. But it's much easier to be the Cinderella team than to be the team with a target on your chest. Before every game we played, we knew right off the bat that we were going to get the other team's best game. Over the course of a 30-game season, that starts to wear on you.

Eric Lindros

There's no communication I don't think we'll be playing this season at all. The bottom line for both sides is nobody should be worrying about public perception right now or who is right and who is wrong in all of this. They should be putting their energy into trying to get a deal done. It's not going to matter who is winning the battle for public opinion if we don't get a deal done. I just don't think there's much reason for optimism with nothing happening right now. We offered them the 24 percent (salary) rollback and I thought that was a very good offer. They didn't want it. We know that hockey is going to be back. But I can't tell you when and in what form.