Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Garner

Wheeler will get the eighth inning on Friday if it's called for, ... He's been good for us.

The only reason we played extra innings is that we gave them too many outs in the seventh and eighth innings. It should have ended in nine.

Those were big-time free throws for an eighth grader.

We're down to a visibility of an eighth of a mile here on the mesa.

Maurice Cheeks

We're out of the eighth spot, we're not out of the hunt. It's how you respond.

Maurice Cheeks

We're not out of the hunt, we're out of the eighth spot and that's a difference. I think we'll come out ready to play on Friday night.

Finishing eighth is remarkable for this team. We had a lot of ups and downs, but to pull it together and do as well as we did in the tournament was unexpected. When we hit adversity, we sometimes drifted. In Saturday's game with Whatcom, we surged through that and got a win to get to the last day, which was our goal.

Finishing eighth at the Open as a team is awesome.

Britt Robertson

I've kissed in the rain so many times. I think one of my first kisses was in the rain. It was in Washington, D.C., with some kid named Dash, in eighth grade. It was in the rain.

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.

Ross Mathews

I played football in eighth grade, and even though I had a passion for it, it turned out I'm no good at playing it.

We don't feel like we have a lot of pressure. We were supposed to finish like eighth or ninth. We played Minnesota exceptionally well and we got to go into Iowa and do the same things.

Holly Black

I've loved vampires for a very long time. In eighth grade, I guess, my research paper was on vampires.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Christian Horner

After the penalty of having to go out to qualify first and second here, to finish the weekend in seventh and eighth is pretty good,

Steve Collins

I knew he'd be good in the eighth grade. He had a big body. He had great hands. He was just physically ready.

I'm real proud of the eighth inning after what they did in the sixth. She mowed them down.

I'm real excited for next year. We have some eighth grade potential. They are going to push kids right away.

No, it's his feet. He's always had the skills, he hasn't always been as big. But when I first saw him as an eighth grader, his feet could move. A lot of times, eighth graders stumble around. But he moved.

Joe Girardi

The walks in the eighth killed us. Pierre gets on, but his run doesn't mean anything. We walked the next two guys. That puts us in a tough situation. J.J. gets the ground ball. I thought we tried to do too much instead of just getting the one out. We tried to get two outs -- get one out.

Ricky Davis

They are in the eighth spot right now so this was a tough loss and we missed an opportunity.

Mariano Rivera

They called me in the eighth to be ready, ... I said, 'I'm ready.'

Steve Simmons

They'll be looking to make up for last year's game. We're ranked eighth in the Midwest and this weekend is a tremendous opportunity to make an impression regionally and nationally.

There's guys hitting at the lower end of our order here hitting seventh, eighth and ninth that when they were in high school were their No. 3 hitter and were their star high school player.