Famous Quotes & Sayings

We knew they were going to make a run at us. You hold a team that's ranked eighth in the state to 37 points in the game, that's a hell of a job defensively.

We stole one in the eighth and then we stole one in the ninth with the squeeze. It was kind of nice.

Luis Walter Alvarez

One indicator of Ernest Lawrence's influence is the fact that I am the eighth member of his laboratory staff to receive the highest award that can come to a scientist - the Nobel Prize.

Adam Wainwright

Whenever that phone rings, I'm always looking. I could be going in in the fifth inning or the fourth inning, or I could be going in there seventh or eighth inning. Nobody's said anything to me. I'll just be ready.

Eric Chavez

We've always had good (closers) in the ninth inning. But the seventh and eighth has been a real strength for us this year.

Allen Iverson

We're going to need team efforts, we're going to need each other down the stretch. With 29 games to go, we've got to win more than half of those to give us a better seed in the playoffs. We don't want to settle for the eighth spot. We want to try and get as high as we can.

Alexei Kovalev

We're fighting for the eighth spot in the playoffs, we knew how important this game was.

Brad Richards

We've never been the eighth seed, obviously. It's going to be different. We're not going to worry about what happened two years ago. We're just going to worry about our team now.

She's just tremendous the last eighth of a mile. She's got such a big kick.

somebody good enough to get the outs in the seventh and eighth innings. We had Gene Nelson and Rick Honeycutt.

Mariano Rivera

Most of the time, he saved the games. The job that he did in the eighth inning was a tough job. To me, he was solid.

I did it from kindergarten through eighth grade. I twirled and I danced.

I think eighth grade is really the earliest. You can tell there's a special kid there at that young of an age.

I think the guys knew it was sort of a fluke. We addressed it. I told them that in my career, I don't think we'd given up an eight-run lead in the eighth inning. They had a good, even keel today and played well.

I thought he could win but he finished eighth so I wasn't in a hurry to come back.

Pat Riley

I was confident. I haven't had to use my legs since the eighth grade. I just want to go to states and place.

How would you know? When I played, you were in your third year of eighth grade.

He's played well and helped us gain our legs. It's nice to have an eighth grader who can play as well as he is playing right now. It's nice to have that luxury.

He had seven strokes, and the eighth one killed him.

He could do the work of any grown man by the time he was in the eighth grade.

I rushed into it and couldn't get things together. I wasn't settled down. I'm not happy (with eighth place). I wanted to get higher.

Our team has an interesting mix with five upper classmen, five freshmen and an eighth grader.

E. B. White

Part of it is because our volunteers are awesome. They are very reliable. Everything went smoothly. Every volunteer who said they were going to come did. This is our eighth time and we have learned a lot.

Mark Shapiro

Our offense got going after he moved to third. We moved him from ninth to eighth to sixth to third, which is a rough responsibility for a player in his first year in the big leagues, and he hasn't blinked.

That doesn't mean that if the weather was nice, we would have had a good economy. We might have been eighth instead of ninth.

Like I've said before, I can't get to a mile and an eighth fast enough.

I was thrilled for them (after districts) because when they were in eighth grade, they had potential. Seeing that I had a small part in helping them reach that potential is special to me.

I was happy with our eighth graders. They have never competed in a match like this. I am sure it was a little intimidating for them. It was a learning experience.

We just did not shut the door. Every time you put them on base, you give them life, and then they?re a hit away. It?s just a shame. It?s disheartening to play so hard for seven innings and then just hand it to them in the eighth and ninth.

Eric Chavez

You can go back in the year and look at the seventh, eighth and ninth inning; we played well enough to win. We should have won those ballgames. ... Hopefully (the poor performance of the relievers) will be addressed this offseason.

Just inside the eighth pole, he had nothing.

That's two in a row on the road after 16 straight losses. This season is not over until after game 82. That eighth spot is anybody's and is up for grabs now.

Going a mile and an eighth first time out was pretty tough, but that race moved him a lot more forward than I could have just training him.