Famous Quotes & Sayings

We started slow tonight. It took our bats a while to get going, but now I'm looking down the lineup and a couple kids went 3-for-4, so it didn't turn out too bad.

Chris Jones

We started off slow but our bats started to come around after the first inning.

Noel Clarke

I did 'Kidulthood' and 'Adulthood,' and that's what people wanted and expect me to always do. They want me to do 'hood films and be the guy swinging baseball bats and saying 'Yo Blood' and beating up others in the street.

When you swing the bats like that, you're going to be pretty tough to beat. It was a good day. The hitters did a good job. It wasn't like their pitchers were slopping it up there.

We accomplished what we needed to. We're really swinging the bats right now and a lot of kids had unselfish at-bats when the game was still tight. We had some walks and a couple of kids got hit and then the big boys knock them in. We just don't have an easy out in the lineup.

Early Wynn

I've got a right to knock down anybody holding a bat.

Charlie Kaufman

The biggest thing that I came across, right off the bat, was that you can't shoot this like a regular movie with multiple takes. You have to, because it's such a protracted process, break it down to the frame and pretty much get one shot.

We're starting to believe a little bit. We're starting to believe in our bats a little bit, and it's taken a long time to get there. That's big for us.

We're going to swing the bats and hit, but I'm tired of playing well enough to win and not winning. We're 16 games into the season. The light should be going on and we should be making plays.

Unfortunately, it's a lot later than I wanted it to be, but its definitely nice to be back. Tonight wasn't really where I need to be, but these guys swung the bats so well it made my outing look better than it was.

Phil Garner

We're just not getting guys on base, and we're certainly not driving them in when we do. Everybody's frustrated. We've gone two weeks now without really much of an offensive threat. The real problem is that we're not getting the bats in the zone very good right now.

Ron Gardenhire

We knocked the fire out of the ball. The guys swung the bats pretty good, and that's fun to see.

Derek Jeter

We know we can't rely on scoring all those runs. We know it's great to have some guys that are swinging the bats well, and we're going to score. But it's not going to happen all season.

We know how good they are on the mound, and they've been swinging the bats of late.

Jim Nelson

We know how good he is, but not a lot of other teams know about him. By the end of the year I think he'll have a lot of teams interested in him. I wasn't expecting us to swing the bats that well, but I thought we'd pitch it a little better. Overall, it was a good game for us coming out of the gate.

David Hawkins

The pitching was good tonight. It was just our bats went cold after the first inning.

Nick Johnson

We're just trying to get ready for the season. Try to stay healthy, get your work in. We just need to get the bats going. It's been a while.

Somebody knew somebody in Syracuse and we got a bunch of busted bats and lathed them down and presto, belay pins.

She has shown us from the beginning of the season that she is able to do that. Even though she bats ninth, that doesn't mean anything. She's a hitter.

Shane really gutted it out. That is the longest he has pitched for us and we had him for 75 pitches. Give him a lot of credit for gutting it out and being very effective. That was a huge factor for us to have him come in and shut them (Phantoms) down. They swing the bats well.

Travis Hafner

Since we've been home, it's only been the one game where we scored any runs. We're missing out on a lot of chances and not hitting with men in scoring position. Everybody is frustrated that we're not swinging the bats better.

Brian Lara

If I have to put anyone to bat for my life, it'll be Kallis or Dravid.

We've been improving, we've been improving everyday. We still made a lot of mistakes tonight but we're gonna get better. I like the way we swung the bats tonight. We really kept our front side down and we hit it in the gaps. That's the way we like to hit.

We ran into a team that played really well tonight. It wasn't a lack of effort or not believing, but they just beat us tonight. They swung the bats better than we did.

(Lee) threw his fastball well. They swung the bats well still but Lee did a good job.

We did swing the bats pretty decent in game one. We played from behind but were able to make a nice comeback. The game was close for most of it.

Those were good wins for us. We pitched well, we played defense and we got the hits when we needed them. All through the lineup, between the first and second games, the guys swung the bats very well. Just a good day overall.

Today was the first day we really swung the bats aggressively. We have a lot of potential but we're young. If we can put it all together and become more consistent, we could be tough.

Mike Scioscia

When you're not swinging the bats well you look flat. Our club was ready to go. We had a lot of energy.

Mike Scioscia

When you're not swinging the bats well, you look flat.

We are kind of an explosive team with the bats. That's pretty much the way it's been with our bats all season.

We are keeping games under control now. And we have the hitters to win close games. The girls feel they have the bats to win a game in the bottom of the seventh.

We are just getting better and better. Now is the time to peak, and I'm glad our bats finally woke up tonight.