Famous Quotes & Sayings

This marks the eighth consecutive quarter of year-over-year top-line growth for Cisco.

In the seventh and eighth grade, I kind of narrowed it down. I wanted to be pretty good at one, rather than mediocre at all of them.

In the beginning, I wasn't thinking about it. But in the eighth inning, I threw like five pitches, and I started thinking about it. It's good ... I saved the bullpen.

In the back of my mind, when I was playing the eighth I was thinking of 62, which was my lowest round ever. But it was not to be.

In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.

I'm happy where I'm at right now pitching the seventh, eighth inning ... doing my job and then watching Francisco (Rodriguez) come in and do his job. I'll be his setup man for the rest of my career. That's fine with me. I'm perfectly fine where I am.

They've got a lot of talent and, being the eighth seed, they don't get as much respect as they deserve.

They told me I needed some ice time because I hadn't played a lot on Long Island. I agree. I don't want to sit there and be a seventh or eighth defenseman.

They're very sincere and want to improve the process. We want to take a look at the four-year plans and how they're being used. We're going to be having conversations with middle school principals very soon, because that's when they start, in the eighth grade.

The key for me to actually getting a win was getting out of that eighth inning. We did a good job of using all 27 of our outs this game.

John Sykes

This is my eighth hurricane, but I've never understood the force of water until I saw this on Sunday. The storm surge was like Sherman going through Georgia.

Our eighth and ninth guys in our rotation were starters today and they played really well. It was a sloppy game, but we keep finding ways to win. We knew not to overlook Hickman County.

Of our 49 boys, 17 are freshmen, so we're still teaching some of the guys this isn't middle school anymore. Some of the freshmen are helping in relays and others are challenging in open events. Six or seven will make an immediate impact. We're talking about kids that maybe lost one meet in seventh and eighth grade, so they're good athletes.

Once we got (to state), we wanted to qualify for Saturday's finals. Then, we made the most of it and made the jump to eighth place (after Saturday's final two rounds). I'm proud of each and every one of them.

They started giving ribbons instead of medals for three years between the eighth and 10th grades, then they started giving medals again.

A lot of them have been team players. They're trying to step up and do events that maybe they haven't done since maybe seventh or eighth grade.

They played like they wanted that eighth seed. We had some kids not ready to play.

Allison Robertson

It's very collaborative. We like to get everybody's opinion, just like we did we were in eighth grade. It's more fun that way. There's no ego. We like to split everything up evenly in everything we do.

For her to ski eighth is really overachieving for her. What she did was phenomenal.

They did real well, were at eighth place, and the young guys stepped it up big time to get us to third. Everyone finished great. We'll have a better shot at state after this tournament.

You don't want to let him have 70 pitches in the eighth inning, which he did, but at the same time you want to .attack him.

Felipe Alou

There were many times last year that I had to wait until the eighth inning to get him that fourth at-bat and get him out of the game.

This is great for an eighth grader in an event like the shot put.

We could tell he (Thompson) was getting tired in the seventh inning. He started to hang a few pitches. The temptation was to throw him back out there for the eighth because he pitched such a great game but he gave us all he had.

This was a big win for us. When you look back at the schedule it will just look like our fifth win in a row, but it took us (until) the last week of the season last year to get that eighth win. It shows the strides we've made as a team.

Through the first six or seven innings it was like, here we go again. But in the eighth and ninth, we found a way to get it done.

You have to play with who you have. We had three opportunities to win the game, in the seventh, eighth and ninth. Someone had to step up.

Chipper Jones

I've seen a guy who may or may not pinch hit in the eighth or ninth inning pop two before the game and another in the fifth inning. It's part of their pre-game ritual. Some guys have to have it.

I've been waiting two months to get to this race. I've been saying the mile and an eighth can't get here fast enough for this horse.

Jim Brown

We went from third to eighth or ninth real quick.

When I started with the company, management promised me a full-time job within two years. I am now in my eighth year.

It was really great to have people to look up to. The team we had when I was in eighth or ninth grade was so good. I really looked up to them.

It was a very tight game. It was just 1-0 going into the sixth and they tied it up. They got a little sloppy in the eighth inning and we stretched it out a little.