Famous Quotes & Sayings

Craig Biggio

You're talking 25- and 30-home run guys and they're not in your lineup anymore, so you have to do some things differently, ... That's hit-and-running, laying down some bunts. We can't be swinging for the fences. We've got some power, but we don't have as much as we did last year. We just have to be a little more creative.

You're putting guys in situations like you would put your starters. You would like to see the young guys respond.

You would never do that. It's just like trying to lose to get this (Reggie) Bush, the guy for USC. You would never do that. You play ball. That's it.

Lawrence Frank

You've got to show some poise and weather the storm, and our guys did that.

You see him in the huddle really challenging the guys on the short yardage situations, the third downs, and you see him go up and down the sidelines on the offensive side, encouraging when we need to be encouraged.

Felipe Alou

You talk about a guy being on the bubble. (But) we want starting pitchers to be able to pitch (in the spring) even if they're going to give up runs.

You take those guys a year older, a year wiser and a year stronger, and you have to look at that and say that's a strength.

Bill Hemmer

You strike me as a guy who is laid-back when you're on location.

Your first priority is always what you can do for your team. These guys realize that they're doing well because our team is doing well.

You're making me feel old. That guy wasn't even in this world when I started playing.

Ron Guidry

You rely on a lot of computerized stats to tell you what guys are doing, what they're not doing. We didn't have that, so it's going to just be another step just to learn how to do all of that and put all of that together.

Kyle Busch

You're going to have guys points racing of course,

Ned Yost

You're behind, you get on the attack, and the guy hit it out of the park. I've got no problem with that.

You never have a enough possession for a coach. You just don't want the other guys to have it. But we're getting better at that. I think we had it for longer periods of time and there were more quality sequences than we had in Houston (one week earlier), for example.

Fred Smoot

You're as strong as the last link on the team. Right now we're hurting. Guys have to step up.

You're always going to have your guys on offense that can make plays,

You really don't have to worry about much with the guys hitting the way they have been lately. You just have to go out and try to limit what you give up, because you know we're going to score runs.

Dan Wilson

You miss the guys you know and the relationships you had. That's the thing you really take away from this game.

Johan Santana

You might see a pitchers' duel. You might see guys going after each other. You never know.

You need the skilled guys and the players who can put the puck away, and we feel like we have some of those kids. At the same time, you have to win in the trenches and you do that with the big kids we're talking about.

You naturally have to be multi-dimensional. That's the type of guys we recruit.

Mark Kotsay

Young hitters are going to go through their ups and downs. When the offense was hot, those two guys were contributing most of the time.

Brad Johnson

Young guys will never understand. It's unfortunate that rookies sometimes win a Super Bowl. Rookies will never understand what they're about to go through.

Norv Turner

Young guys have to learn how to handle the tempo in practice,

Mark McNulty

You never say you're going to win, because you never know how the other guy is going to play.

You put that jersey on some guys and it transforms some players into more than they usually are.

This is a rebuilding year. But you can't say that around here. These new guys don't know any better. They don't realize we're usually doing better than this. It's the veterans we have to make sure aren't trying too hard.

This is a really big win for this team and for our program. To get this win is a big testament to the way these guys have hung in there and worked hard all season long.

This is different . . . a little amazing. You've got to get to guys and try to find a job. It's a little humbling.

This is great. This is all going to prepare us for our run in the states. It's all about being disciplined and how much these guys want it.

This is an opportunity for people who did not do interviews to have some one-on-one time. These guys will be able to talk to them and make their own decision.

Nick Saban

This is an opportunity for each and every one of those guys to show what they can do.

Phil Jackson

This is a team we told our guys not to foul, and we end up sending them to the line 35 times. That was one of the things we didn't expect.