Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roberto Alomar

I'm proud of everything that I've accomplished since I was a little boy. That was my dream - to be a ballplayer. I didn't dream to win so many Gold Gloves, or Silver Bats or play in All-Star Games or World Series. I was just dreaming to play the game.

Eric Chavez

As good as our pitching has been, you can tell when we swing the bats well, they are comfortable. When we're not swinging the bats, they are not too comfortable on the mound. Hitting will really dictate how well we do the last month.

As a team, you feed off each other. We've really started to swing the bats well here in the last couple of weeks.

I mean, it's been just a little bit of everything. We've gotten some stretches where we've had some good offensive production. When the bats cooled down, our pitchers have stepped up.

I knew we had the bats to come back. Everybody was starting to get a little nervous. The kids played well.

George Steinbrenner

I'm concerned that they've got to get their bats going. They've got to get it together and get playing.

I really think we're getting better defensively. We just need our bats to wake up.

I keep telling our power hitters not to try to hit home runs because actually when you hit a home run, it is like hitting errors, so we need to focus on the process of having good at bats and the power will take care of itself.

I made some good pitches there, and our bats did the rest,

I'm worried about going into a must-win series without Schmidgall. It would put a lot of pressure on us this weekend. It doesn't only take one of our best bats out of the lineup, but it takes away our lead-off hitter.

It's a 10-team tournament and we are using wooden bats that somebody's furnishing. It's going to be a good deal and the kids are looking forward to it.

Mark Ellis

I try to figure this team out, and if I could, I'd be a genius. We're all swinging the bats well at the same time, or we're all not swinging the bats well at the same time.

Bobby Cox

It was struggle on both sides today. We swung the bats great. It was good to get on the top side of that one.

It was really exciting for us to get our bats going like we did today. Everyone really contributed today. We've been focusing on getting in the box and getting a pitch you can do something with and we really did that today. And we keep reducing our strikeouts with is nice to see.

It was a real slow start for the girls. Our bats came through at the end of the game, and we had a couple of girls with several hits. The girls were able to come back and play as a team.

John Gibbons

It was a slugfest type game. We swung the bats good. They had that one big inning.

The wind blowing out helped a little. We hadn't been swinging our bats well at all coming in here, but we did a good job of battling today.

The whole weekend we didn't swing the bats very well.

Randy Johnson

They actually swung today. The sooner they get their swings down, the better for me as well. I'm not trying to break bats and strike people out, I'm just trying to throw my pitches and feel like I'm accomplishing something. The more I throw, the better my pitches will get.

Derek Jeter

Before everyone anoints this the greatest offense ever, let us play a little while first. The names don't win games. You have to go out there and perform, and we really haven't swung the bats well.

Eden Phillpotts

His father's sister had bats in the belfry and was put away.

Christina bats seventh on this team. That's the type of hitting team we have. The bottom of the line-up is doing real well for us.

Before, (with) all the metal bats all you could hear was a ding. Now it's more of a solid-hitting feeling, like they've extended the sweet spot.

Ross Detwiler

I just didn't go out there and get it done. Their bats had been down all weekend, and today they hit really well. I didn't make the pitches when I needed to.

Hopefully, our pitching will hold up. Buchholz has been swinging the bats awfully well (scoring 35 runs in three tournament games), so we'll have our work cut out for ourselves.

Albert Pujols

Hopefully everybody starts swinging the bats better. Our bats are not where we want them right now. Half of the team is not hitting that good, but we're finding ways to win some games -- and that's the most important thing.

Games like this, you have to give Columbus a lot of credit. They came out swinging the bats very aggressively. They got comfortable. That's what happens when you score a lot of runs, you start feeding off each other.

Phil Garner

I don't know how much of that was their pitching today and how much was we didn't get the bats on the ball,

Hey, you can't take anything away from Lakewood Ranch. They put their bats on the ball, threw strikes and played good defense.

He started off rough. But he settled down after that and gave us some good innings. We swung the bats well and only made one error so it was a good effort for us.

It was time for a rally, we turned our jackets inside out and from there our bats woke up.

It was tough. We actually played a great game. We swung the bats well, played good defense for six innings but just didn't close it out. Matt threw well. We just didn't make plays behind him.

Jim Perrin

In one way I'm glad we're starting to swing the bats better and getting runners on base. Now it's the timely hits we need to get. Once we start getting those to sneak through or fall in we'll be fine.