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Early on he was a little flat with his slider. All of a sudden he started getting on top and putting people away.


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GEORGE STEINBRENNER I know him, ... He throws a fastball away and then he comes in with a slider. I was ready for a slid...
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TOM LEMMING He had a high pitch count there for a while, then all of a sudden he really started throwing strikes...
LOU PINIELLA His go-to pitch is probably his slider. That's the pitch he's most comfortable with. He got a strike...
BOB MCCLURE Ray was on a mission. He had that proverbial scowl on his face. He got a little anxious midway throu...
BOB HILL He had a hard slider and was working in and out with his fastball. Give him credit: He hit his spots...
HERMAN DEMMINK Sanchez had his game on. All of his pitchers were working pretty good. His fastball at the end was h...
LUIS DORANTE We just looked at the top numbers and started a concentrated effort to try to collect. It's amazing ...
CHARLES BENNETT He threw the ball well. He was able to use all his pitches, his slider, his changeup and his fastbal...
BILL EVERS He missed a little bit early but started throwing his curveball over. He did a good job after that.
BUCKY DENT He threw the ball well and freely, but he was up with his pitches. He hung a slider. That's going to...
FRANK ROBINSON That was a priority. He came out and got that early 3 on us, caught us flat-footed, and he didn't ha...
LANCE RANDALL He showed me his slider was his command pitch. I told him, 'You get behind in the count, throw it an...
BOB APODACA I think he was getting so much pressure . . . he was trying to rush his throws a little bit. He was ...
ERIC MOULDS The ball was jumping out of his hand. His velocity jumped up with it, his slider was tighter and he ...
JOHN FLAHERTY Joe met in here for many, many years with the Optimist Club, and he was on the board a long time. We...
GARY JOHNSON He does all the intangible stuff. That's his biggest role in the grand scheme of things - drawing ch...
JODY BASS If I hadn't gotten on base and Molitor singled, Carter wouldn't have gotten the pitch he got to hit ...
RICKEY HENDERSON He got a little tired and started getting the ball up, but he was pretty much untouched.
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ASTRODOST I was on his staff in the early '80s when he was a congressman and he worked even then with members ...
DOUG COLE He made it look easy. He had good command of his cutter. He was getting strike one with his fastball...
CHAD MOELLER He was very quiet, we would get on him a lot about yelling more and being more vocal (early in the s...
DANIEL CROPPER When I think of Joe in the dressing room, it's always with a cup of coffee and a cigarette. He was a...
YOGI BERRA noted that Joe Torre took full responsibility. That's what Joe Torre said. That's what Steinbrenner ...
HOWARD RUBENSTEIN He was a late-inning stud all through college and continued in his first pro year. He has an 88-90 f...
GRADY FUSON Slowly. Early on he was a little frustrated because the defense forgot to do a couple of things. But...
DAN NOBBS But he was on top of his game tonight and he will only get better.
PATRICK SHARP In the first inning, he scuffled a little bit. It was reminiscent of his last two starts. Then all o...
MIKE HARGROVE He started getting ahead of the hitters. He was getting into hitters' counts in the first inning. Ev...
DREW DANNER Kent pitched a good game. His pitch count started to get high and I didn't want to kill the kid. We ...
SHAWN REYNOLDS A telkhine was hunched over a console, but he was so involved with his work, he didn't notice us. He...
RICK RIORDAN I couldn't believe it was going to be a close play, and all of sudden he (catcher Johnny Estrada) ha...
MICHAEL BARRETT A lot of things we could do with Shedrick we couldn't do with Joe because he wasn't ready yet, ... B...
JAMES HAYNES He had good command of his cutter. He was getting strike one with his fastball and then cutting all ...
CHAD MOELLER He started pushing the ball a little deeper. He needed to get some depth on his shots. He showed gre...
ASHER COHEN You look at his game from when he was a rookie to now and there's no comparison. He can flat-out sco...
JOHN LUCAS There was once a man named Joe... Joe was insecure because he had no ears. Joe couldn’t hear a god...
DAVID MICHAEL MILLER Galen was very quiet last year. He did what he did, but he was very quiet. Now he?s more out there. ...
MICHAEL ROBINSON One that really caught me was Joe Morello. He was the first drummer I ever saw that could do a roll ...
BUTCH TRUCKS We started playing the Baltimore Colts early, and I was still very impressed with Johnny Unitas, who...
BOB LILLY Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
DALE MURPHY Joe Paterno said he wanted to win with a number 80 on. I'm chasing Joe Paterno.
TOMMY ALDRIDGE I was getting a lot of good looks early on. They started helping out on defense a little more in the...
GAVIN EDWARDS He had some really sharp pitches. He was just a little bit up on occasion. He made some really nice ...
JOE MADDON Memo has his ways of putting pressure on and getting his team up. He is still a great player and I'm...
ADAM SNOW He was still a huge question mark. It wasn't until he started (with WVBC) that he had the time and t...
BUD OGDEN I grew up at a time when Buddy Holly was on top, ... He is still on top. His music hasn't died.
MARK WHITE All of the sudden everything just started crashing and catching on fire and people hollering and run...
BLANCHE JONES We were just going along and there were gusts of wind. The road was wet, but it was just kind of mis...
MARCIA ROGERS Harry lay flat on his back, breathing hard as though he had been running. He had awoken from a vivid...
J.K. ROWLING When a child dies, a parent loses a part of themselves,” he said. “Your whole world ceases to ex...
NICOLE WILLIAMS He arrives early and talks to people, getting a sense of Americana.
FRED NEWMAN I had a little heart-to-heart with him, and I think the light bulb finally came on. He got a little ...
MARK MCHALE Youri was not pleased with the way he played early on. He seems to raise his level of play when most...
BOB BRADLEY David Geffen learned early on that his voice was his most powerful weapon. He leaned that if he scre...
TOM KING I was showing a man and telling his story and explaining how ill he was, and it was a live camera an...
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR He didn't go to his mouth on the mound. He was simply sweating profusely on his face and was wiping ...
PHIL GARNER He started doing one thing and seeing things were getting better. He was able to be in touch with a ...
CHARLES PARKS I thought he was fantastic today. He glides by people as if they are not there, his first touch was ...
ERIC BLACK The thing I thought was great about Chris, he was willing to change his look a little bit, look a li...
MARSH MYERS He hits his spots all game. He kept us off-balance because he had a good 12-6 curveball and a slider...
MATT BOWMAN He is flat-out over anxious. He has come out of his game a little bit and maybe put more into his sw...
MIKE SCIOSCIA I called him Kenny Mayne. He was kind of ticked about that, so no way was he putting The Duck on his...
DENNIS BONIFER Steve informed me his mother was Irish, which I was unaware of. All of a sudden I started looking at...
DON GIVENS He told me when he was a little boy, he went to the top of City Hall and looking out on the city, he...
ALEXANDER GARVIN I got the ball up in the fifth inning and they took advantage of it a little bit. Joe said that was ...
JASON VARGAS Everyone was jumping on top of me. Unfortunately my leg got caught up in a weird position, and I sta...
HARRY OLIVER He's missing with his fastball, and he's relying more on his slider,
PHIL GARNER I was really pleased. He still didn't have his great meet and he was a little off on his last two di...
CAROLYN PETERSON His whole goal in life was to never repeat what had happened to him early on. He wanted above all to...
EDWARD ROMERO He was lined up straight with the ship canal. All of a sudden, he went port (left) and hit the wall.
DALE MITCHELL I don't know if Luke was nervous, but I was. You have a sophomore quarterback who has never started ...
DENVER JOHNSON The group started getting bigger and bigger, so Al started replacing Brian on the road, and then fin...
BRUCE JOHNSTON He (White) had a tough first inning, but was strong the rest of the way. He was getting his curve ba...
GLENN LINCOLN How Rooney copes with still being so young and with getting all the fame and attention depends on th...
WAYNE ROONEY All we could do for him was win the game and when we won the game, he was a very happy man. And he w...
BILL MCKENNA He started picking his spots. He left the point guard spot and started roaming around and started ge...
CURTIS STINSON The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Definitely, we're relieved. When we first started hearing about his discomfort we were all kind of w...
DAMON JONES Joe was such a pleasure to watch, ... He didn't waste any movement. He was smooth. It was like liste...
MIKE HOLMGREN I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was ...
TIM ROBBINS Joe has probably been our most consistent player on both ends of the court. When you look at his off...
TUBBY SMITH He was taken away from his mother and brought up in a cold, austere home with little affection or co...
CYNTHIA LENNON I was trying to go to sleep. Then all of the sudden everything just started crashing and catching on...
BLANCHE JONES Early on I felt he was hitting the ball a little cleaner than I was but I managed to sneak a break a...
ANDY RODDICK Harry lay flat on his back, breathing hard as though he had been running. He had awoken from a vivid...
J.K. ROWLING We came out flat early. I called a timeout and had a little disagreement with them. They got themsel...
CHRIS TIBBITS He grabbed me, got on top of me, ... started slugging me with your fists. Robert, I know you know.
BLAKE KERR Against Detroit, I don't know if he was a little psyched up and he was maybe overthrowing a little b...
MIKE SCIOSCIA Never say never,” he said urgently, rolling back on top of her and using all of his unusually heav...
JOSEPHINE ANGELINI He had all his pitches working and he was able to locate all of them. He was real strong early in th...
GARY MCNAMARA What was faster was the amount of throws he made on flat ground and how much better he felt.
LARRY ROTHSCHILD I was on top of Keanu Reeves, he was on his back and I was on my trunk, and I was breathing down his...
HUGO WEAVING I always joke with him that he raised goats, and that's why he likes all these hikes that are real s...
BILL ANNING He was out so much before the season started that he got out of shape a little, so his wind wasn't b...
ERIC PRICE He gets a cradle in that situation a lot. The other kid has a leg and thinks he's in good shape, the...
DOUG RINE I was ready to pitch my game once we started. The rain was the last thing on my mind. I had a good f...
JOSE CONTRERAS Federal-Mogul was a good paycheck and it was a steady paycheck. All of a sudden that's taken away, a...
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JOE TORRE I had to not only hear it, but hear the tone in which it was said, ... George and I have not spoken....
JOE TORRE He bounced back and got the three outs. He just has to get a little more consistent with his command...
JOE TORRE That's what goes with who you are, how much you make, all of that. It's part of the equation, unfort...
JOE TORRE He was satisfied with the way he felt. He misguided a couple of pitches, but aside from that, he got...
JOE TORRE Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.
JOE TORRE As far as we know it's not related to anything other than it's uncomfortable for him. I don't think ...
JOE TORRE They can be a pest offensively. They can do a lot of things. There's no giveaways there offensively....
JOE TORRE That was the idea. We haven't made anything official because we wait until a little later just to ma...
JOE TORRE If it goes seven games, it's seven separate seasons. Each game lives on its own merit.
JOE TORRE I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell.
JOE TORRE First of all, you want umpires to call what they see. In the case of fair or foul, the smartest thin...
JOE TORRE A gentleman holds my hand.
A man pulls my hair.
A soulmate will do both.
ALESSANDRA TORRE (Regarding Marriage) Both people need to care deeply about the other person, to put the other’s ne...
ALESSANDRA TORRE I'm done. I don't need anything more out of life. I have you, and that's enough.
ALESSANDRA TORRE There is nothing like young love. It comes at a time before the heart knows to protect itself, when ...
ALESSANDRA TORRE They seemed to be asleep a lot on the baseline. I just concentrated on getting there.
TORRE JOHNSON Star light. Star bright. First star I see tonight. I wish I may, wish I might. Not kill those whom m...
A.R. TORRE The heart is stubborn. It holds onto love despite what sense and emotion tells it. And it is often, ...
ALESSANDRA TORRE The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking.
ALESSANDRA TORRE When had I gotten so afraid of love and hope that I strangled it to death with my insecurity? Maybe ...
ALESSANDRA TORRE I hate society’s notion that there is something wrong with sex. Something wrong with a woman who l...
ALESSANDRA TORRE There are a few (film) festivals in Georgia. One of the biggest is in Atlanta. Savannah has a big on...
GREG TORRE Competition for entertainment projects has become increasingly competitive and the state legislature...
GREG TORRE Some percentage of the business will go back. But some percentage will be more cautious.
GREG TORRE Their incentives hurt us. They caught all of us — South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida — off-gu...
GREG TORRE But we're definitely seeing an increase in interest in what we have to offer.
GREG TORRE I stare across the table at Jeremy, and wonder if I will make it through our first date without tryi...
ALESSANDRA TORRE First it was come back, then it was go. We're just trying to do what they tell us and get a few thin...
KAREN TORRE First it was come back, then it was go.
KAREN TORRE We're trying to walk for the people who can't walk.
TORRE MILLS I don’t mind being killer-crazy, but I don’t want to be loony-bin-crazy. That would probably be ...
A.R. TORRE God's dreams for us is far better than our own. He desires that we be able to maximize every potenti...
RU DELA TORRE Compromise is only comfortable to the man who is outside the presence of God.
JOE JOE DAWSON