Famous Quotes & Sayings

Derek Jeter

Names don't win games. We have to go out and swing the bats more. You don't want to fall behind this club because their bullpen is pretty good.

I think we're going to try and give them different looks and hopefully give them three different pitchers so that they're not going to be able to gauge their bats on who's pitching.

I was a little worried after the first inning when we scored two runs, but we left a runner on third with no outs, and they came back to tie it up. I thought our kids, especially Anderson, really settled down and gave a chance to get it back with the bats later on.

I think the reason we are undefeated is because of our bats and our senior leadership. We've gone so far and done so well, anything less is going to be a disappointment.

I thought that we swung the bats better tonight. We also did a great job with our short game and we pitched through some adversity. We are starting to defend the field better, which is critical to being a good club.

I thought that we did a decent job. We've just got to make sure that we're on our game defensively and that we're communicating well with each other. I was proud of what they did. We've just got to make sure that our bats are on for our next game.

I was glad to see all of our kids got to play. A couple of our pitchers did a good job, held them to two runs. And we swung the bats pretty well.

I think he's got great potential. We just didn't swing the bats really well.

Our offense has really come around. We're swinging the bats well and getting good at-bats. When we get runs on, we're driving them in.

Johnny Damon

Some guys haven't gotten into the mode of swinging the bats real well.

I expect us to start swinging the bats pretty good. I'm confident we're going to start swinging the bats better.

Jay Payton

I expect a lot of at bats and a lot of work. I know that play will dictate how many at bats I will get.

Try to keep our bats quiet, ... and sooner or later, we're going to get you.

We need to get out there and play. We need to work in guys that haven't been getting consistent at bats and at the same time get ready for the MAC weekend series.

When we played them before, we didn't bring our heads, our bats or our arms. They brought themselves, and that's it. I was dumbfounded, really.

We've only played two or three games in the past two weeks. I didn't know how our bats would react, but we swung it well.

(The Panthers) weren't able to throw their No. 1 or No. 2 guys, but not to take away anything from my kids, we swung the bats well. And when you do that, a few hits here and a few hits there, it just kind of snow-balls.

We were swinging the bats the whole game, putting it in play. When Coppola hit it out, they saw he got elevation, and suddenly the groundouts turned into line drives.

Ned Yost

We were swinging the bats really well today.

With our speed, we think it's a strength and we can score runs. We just didn't have our bats today.

We've got a few guys who are swinging the bats really well. Hopefully, the hitting becomes contagious. We'd like to see some more guys contribute offensively.

We're swinging the bats really well and starting to build some confidence. We're still trying to find guys that fit roles.

We're swinging the bats pretty good right now.

We're swinging the bats extremely well. From one through nine in the order, the players are taking good hacks.

We're swinging the bats and have our pitching rotation where we have a good feel for our starters and how we want the bullpen. I feel like we're right on schedule.

Bobby Crosby

Tonight it was one rough inning. Besides that, we looked good and we swung the bats well. I don't think (dropping series openers) is a trend. I hope it's not.

Dick Adams

We had a good start after the bats struggled in the first game.

We had to battle in that first game. We were down 10-2 but got the bats going. Everyone stepped up.

Those three kids have swung consistent bats all spring and they came through with those doubles all in a row. That was some great hitting.

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.

You have got to win games, no doubt about it. There's no remedy like winning. We thought Friday's win (6-5 in 12 innings) would spearhead that. We thought we would come out and swing the bats the next couple of games, and we haven't done that.

We got good starting pitching every time out. We swung the bats pretty good, but it all starts on that mound.

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.