Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cole Hamels

This will be a good day. How many bats can I break?

Our kids have been swinging the bats all year long. Five of them are hitting at least .500 and before today, Eric was hitting .730 and he's got six home runs now. He's driven in 11 runs and has at least 13 stolen bases.

Our guys had some quality at bats even though we struck out a lot early. We took some good things from those at bats and didn't get discouraged. We learned things each time. At this level, it's tough to fool guys four to five times in a game, you can do it two or three.

Over the trip we played really well. The 6-0 record explains everything. From an offensive standpoint a lot of it was just mental and being able to get everybody their at bats. Everyone is comfortable now and we have our bats going into the conference season.

Our pitchers struggled to find the strike zone, but our bats came alive. This was easily our best hitting game of the year.

Craig Biggio

Overall everyone swung the bats and did everything right,

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.

Felipe Alou

I saw him hit 10 home runs in 40 at bats one spring training. If he's in spring training mode, watch out.

Johnny Damon

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

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 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.

Don Andrews

I thought Lorin Thurgood had one of the greatest at bats I've ever seen.

I thought in the second inning we had some really big hits and that kind of set the tone for the game. It was great to see some guys come through with some clutch hitting. I think we showed that we're capable of being a good offensive team when everybody's clicking and swinging the bats the way that they can.

Maybe one day I'll get it, but right now I'm content with getting three hits. It's fun right now. Everybody on the team is swinging the bats well and it's just fun. I always said we were going to get on a roll like this, and here we go.

I think that we can win eight of our next ten games. We can do this because I see the bats coming alive. Its going to be like a light switch for the team producing runs.

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.

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.

Chase Utley

It's good to find the barrel of the bat again.

Today was a big game because I told the guys we either were winning the series or settling for a tie. We swung the bats a lot better today.

Trent threw about like he always does. He kept us in the game until our bats were ready. I'm very pleased with his performance.

Yeah, we have a good defense. But with the cold weather, a field with no fence and these bats you're never comfortable unless you're up eight or nine.

We needed that. We need something positive to happen offensively. We needed to go out there and crack the bats around a little bit because we haven't done that much.

We needed that. We needed something positive. We hadn't been swinging the bats all that much.

Ted White

We came out swinging our bats from the get-go. It always helps to get off to a good start like we did today.

We are obviously excited to get our second straight sweep and I am pleased we have been able to string together some wins. I think we swung the bats well towards the end of the game, but we need to continue to improve in some areas.

We had everything set up the way we wanted to. They just came out and swung the bats well. I think the guys were prepared. It's not a good feeling. Any time you can control your fate and let it get away, it's disappointing.

Wayne King

We can't keep them down forever. Even though they're struggling right now, they're going to swing the bats through the course of the season.

We just didn't swing the bats the way we should and we lost. We'll be out watching Hawaii tomorrow and we'll be pulling for them.

We came out focused and had some really good at bats out of every player today. I thought we hit it hard, which we've been doing but we found the holes today.

Alex Rodriguez

We have to look at the positives. Randy pitched well, our pitchers are pitching well, our bats were better tonight and we just have to make plays.

Usually we're slow coming out of the gates with the bats. Today we came out swinging the bats early and that was definitely big. It seemed like we were more comfortable in the box. I think playing at home helped - we haven't played a lot of home games.

Lance Berkman

We've done a nice job at the plate. There's going to be ups and downs and you just have to try to enjoy the times we're swinging the bats well. The last three games we've done a good job competing and putting up runs.