Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bryan pitched batting practice and he was probably hitting 90 mph.

This guy does a lot of things well. We have to decide where he fits best and where his best development slot is. It's not a matter of where he plays. It's gotten down to a matter of where he hits in the batting order.

Waqar Younis

The Indians have their grey areas. They depend heavily on their strong batting but even then collapse like a pack of cards. They are devastating and poor at times.

You will see a lot of excitement from these two quality players. They played at very competitive schools in college. An 0-for-4 game or batting slump will not get them down. The fans are going to fall in love with both of them.

William Ford

Any time is fine with me. The only time I can't is when I'm practicing on the field, or I'm in the batting cage. When the day's over with, guys usually sign then.

Paul Wilson

No real batting talent came through and I don't think he looked hard enough within his own squad or within the state for the players that could have improved,

Nos. 1-9 in the batting order will move the baseball. Defensively we'll be as solid as we've ever been. Matt can overpower people and keep us in the game with anyone.

Now it's a lot better because the new ballparks, they've got batting cages next to the dugout. We did not hit a ball. Now, hitters go outside the dugout and hit off a tee.

Amy Cook

Defensively, we'll fine. What we're focusing hard on is batting fundamentals in order to become a better team.

Charles Thomas

Absolutely. That never gets old no matter what game it is. Honestly I just put in play what we do every day during the second round of batting practice: With guys in, you try to stay up the middle. I just made sure not do too much.

Rahul Dravid

They (Pakistan) have a very good batting line-up. But our bowlers bowled very well and we took some very good catches. It was a determined team effort that fetched us this victory.

This morning was as hard batting as we've had to do in a test match for a long time.

There is nothing wrong with it. Coaches got me back on track. I'm kind of batting double cleanup.

Tim Kaine

You're not going to have a 1.000 batting average, but the way you get votes is, you just push and you push. I'm not afraid to do that.

Another change is on the hat and batting helmet -- they are all blue. We eliminated the black out of the batting helmet. There still is a black jersey.

Kiran More

There was a long discussion on middle order batting and we thought that this is the best team we can pick for Pakistan.

Greg Chappell

We are obviously keen to win the game. The spirit in the group is excellent. We were happy with most of what we did in the first game. We were happy with our batting in the first game, which was pretty good. The fielding was good too. The bowlers did pretty good too.

We didn't play a game this week until (Friday) and we got in a lot of extra batting practice. We're making some good adjustments at the plate and we're using the whole field.

Prince Fielder

When I was 12, I was taking batting practice with an aluminum bat at Tiger Stadium. I don't know where it landed exactly, but upper deck somewhere. Yeah, people were surprised.

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

We had a great practice yesterday. Very intense two hours yesterday, a lot of situational softball. It ended with batting practice and you can just tell that they're figuring some things out.

I see partnerships being built and people batting longer.

Matt Holliday

I've been working on timing and getting my hands in the right position, just trying to get that feel back. It's hard to explain. You can do it in batting practice and you can do it in the cage, but to get in the game and to be able to settle your nerves a little bit and get in that mode when you can still get your swing off when the velocity picks up and you start facing off-speed pitches. I'm trying to find that rhythm, that timing.

It would only be a coup if the person who is a leader of a party leaves and becomes the leader elsewhere. I mean, what would you settle for if you are a leader of a party and you defect? No. 12 in the batting order? No. 15?

Graeme Smith

The whole team wanted to be positive and wanted to go for a win. Cricket needs positive games. It doesn't need teams batting out and drawing games. For us, as a team moving forward, we're young and we need to be positive. To set a declaration and to try to go for a win was in our minds the only way to play. The negative option never came in.

We felt they should return to domestic cricket to work on their batting before being reconsidered for selection.

Ricky Ponting

The team the West Indies picked was fairly light on with their batting and we knew that if we made some early in-roads that we might be able to go through them reasonably quickly.

The team is starting to put it together. Our pitching and batting have both been a lot better.

The thing is you (pitchers) can't be messing around with the guys in the front of the order. Eventually, it will catch up with you. They could be the best at those positions (in the batting order) in the league.

Mike Cameron

I've at least got to go get a few innings under my belt, try to get my eyes right. The most important thing is to have batting practice and see how it feels.

Andruw Jones

I wanted to go out there and start something. I felt good in batting practice.

Sometimes you stand back and watch him during batting practice and say, 'Wow, he's only 21,'? He's got it all, everything.

Graeme Smith

Sometimes, when you're batting with an injury, it helps you to focus your mind, and I'm hoping that will be the case. The medical staff would rather I waited until the second Test, but I really want to get out there and play.