Famous Quotes & Sayings

We got a nice batch early in the year, but the long-range outlook had us warmer than normal, so this shouldn't be too much of a surprise.

Tavis Smiley

We give you the facts. I told you information is power -- knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.

We gave them a good battle for 17 minutes. I promised my team that when I watch the tape tomorrow I won't look at the scoreboard. I'll look at how we played. We played hard. They made one of those phenomenal runs on us and the show was over.

We gave them a good battle for 17 minutes. I just think (Connecticut) is so good, so well-coached. They just made one of those phenomenal runs on us and the show was over.

We found ways to battle and battle, but not to pull out wins. We won one big game and thought we were turning the corner, but we lost some close ones down the stretch.

We found them (the Simons) at a church-run shelter in Baton Rouge.

Ozzie Guillen

We have a better bench, a better rotation, and having Thome swing the bat the way he is now, he'll really help our team. But when you win the world championship, you can't say this team is better. That's not fair.

We have 23 people. Our kids are playing both ways, so it's a battle of the numbers. We're working hard in practice and just came away with two big road wins.

We can officially say we're in striking distance. It's still going to be a battle though because we're still behind.

Marian Gaborik

We want to finish strong and get some wins. Some guys are battling for jobs and stuff, obviously. You want to end things on a good note for the fans. They've supported us the whole time, so we want to finish the best we can.

We want to develop a battery that has a graceful failure - meaning that if it's damaged, it won't cause other problems. We have to understand how batteries fail and why they fail.

We weren't swinging the bats really well. Southern has a great pitching staff and probably the best hitting team they've had, and we held them to only eight hits all weekend.

We knew going into this that it would be a highly contested match. It was a very hard fought battle on both sides of the ball.

We knew going in knowing that Reed and Galena would probably be one and two. That meant that we'd be in a battle all year with everybody else for those last two spots.

We knew coming into tonight it was going to be a battle and that's exactly what we got. I think the fans here tonight got a real enjoyable game. You can't take anything away from anybody.

Marty Schottenheimer

We knew coming in this was going to be a battle and it lived up to that...I was pleased with the overall performance of the team.

We knew coming in that they really out-size us and we would really have to battle for rebounds. With all things considered, I think that we did fairly well. We played them a couple of weeks ago and we really didn't show up, so this was a lot better.

We knew coming in that there were four teams that were going to battle for it, and who ever didn't make it would be a team that could do something in the playoffs.

Tim Wakefield

To hold onto Manny's bat in the lineup, I'm glad he decided to stay.

You have to like the fact that we got the shutout because in the first half, it was a bit choppy. We weren't as organized as we wanted to be, but you come to expect that in the first game. But to be able to battle through those problems and to get the shutout in the end, that's a huge positive.

With Ryan Bohanan, the way he swings the bat makes him an awfully good option,

You have a commanding lead in home runs -- for the No. 9 spot in the batting order.

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.

We had a stellar defensive game, even though we had three errors. This was a tremendous confidence- booster for the team. We didn't strike out too many and we did it with our gloves. The bats were there and the pitching is coming around.

We've had to battle for every single win we've had this year.

Randy Carlyle

We've had to battle back. Points are too important now and we've got to find a way to shake ourselves out of those doldrums early.

We've had to battle back from those kind of nights a lot this year.