(Sophomore) Gil South worked his tail off on the mound today. But we just can't seem to get him any run support.
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SEAN CONNOLLY We are counting on him being back. He worked his tail off this offseason to get himself in great sha...
ANDY REID We wanted to get him some mound work tonight, but we didn't want to pitch him to death. It worked ou...
BOBBY BYERLY It's very, very disappointing. The kid worked his tail off. It's just a freak thing.
BRIAN BOWERS He threw off the mound toward the end, really just to get him up on the hill and get used to the slo...
LARRY ROTHSCHILD He worked his tail off and is throwing the ball real well.
MEL DIDIER Sometimes when he have our No. 1 guy going on the mound that doesn't mean we're always going to win ...
JESSE BENAVIDEZ Even during the time he was failing, he was dedicated to his work ethic. He worked his tail off.
JOE TORRE It's hard to tell off one session, but he looks a lot better. It usually takes him a couple mound se...
DARREN BALSLEY His improvement from last season to this season was dramatic. He worked his tail off to get better i...
FRANK ALLOCCO It was good to get him off the mound because he was rolling.
RUSS ADAMS I felt good today. I felt better than last time when I was on the mound. It wasn't really nerves, bu...
FERNANDO NIEVE Johnny and Jason worked together for three years in Buffalo . . . so we were very happy to get Jas...
DARRIS KILGOUR We were able to get him on the run and obviously with his situation, getting him moving around, I'm ...
BUD FOSTER I think he'll probably throw off the mound soon. Obviously, he's going to have to get off the mound ...
WILLIE RANDOLPH I thought he was a player that didn't have any flaws. But what was most impressive was that in addit...
GEORGE MCPHEE It's really surprising how well he's playing. You see him walking, and he's walking with a limp, and...
LEWIS JACKSON Moose was great; we ran the pitch count up more than we wanted to, but he was a trooper tonight. He ...
JOE TORRE We had him. We talked about it on the mound -- 'The grass is slow here, so hop off' -- and he did. H...
JOE RANDA It was so good to get on the mound and feel how I did today, ... I didn't have all my strength, but ...
JAKE PEAVY We're going to plug him in when he's ready, ... He'll continue to throw sidelines. But his ankle has...
DAVE WILLIAMS I don't think we should ever lose a game on Friday night with (Lincoln) on the mound. They don't get...
JAKE STEWART He's still got to throw off the mound, but today was a real positive day, ... He's gone from not bei...
BARRY WEINBERG Eric did an absolutely outstanding job on the mound. He threw strikes and we backed him up with some...
JOHN O'MALLEY Randy immediately came off the mound and had some choice words to say. I told him to knock it off an...
FIELDIN CULBRETH Basically, we had to remake him. We worked on his delivery to speed him up and get him to hold runne...
DON COOPER When we recruited him we knew he'd have to play a key role by his sophomore year. He had a good fres...
GREG KAMPE Right now he's just taking it one pitch at a time and trying to get good pitches to hit. He's been w...
PATRICK ANDERSON It was his day. Tomorrow would have been my day. We're just great competitors and we push ourselves....
JEFF PAIN It was a good game for us. We had a young pitcher on the mound and it was good to have him pitch aga...
AARON BENDER Anthony worked his tail off. He had a great spring, summer and fall. So he's had some success becaus...
DANA ALTMAN We weren't sure what to expect from him. He's really grown up. But this is his (final) year and he's...
LANE KIFFIN That's something [director of pitching development] Dewey [Robinson] and the staff have really worke...
RICKY BENNETT I've worked on my game, and I don't think it has any holes, no weaknesses. I say that with h...
EZEKIEL ELLIOTT (Newsome) doesn't work (with the) defense, so we didn't want to put him in any coverage and get him ...
JEAN GORDON The team goes as he goes, but not just by his performance. His enthusiasm and excitement are what ge...
GREG VALASKEY It was him against that pitcher, and I could see that he wanted to compete and that he wanted to win...
LAWRENCE SCULLY To put it bluntly, anytime you've worked your tail off and put five years into it, and to have your ...
KEITH BURNS We've both worked hard on our games this year, and it's starting to pay off. It was nice playing wit...
JUSTIN ROSE He's really poised on the mound. Both of the sophomore pitchers are stepping up and giving us some g...
DAVE MARZANO Jason scratched his head. "You named him Festus? You know that in Latin, ‘festus’ means ‘happy...
RICK RIORDAN He said on the mound he didn't try to hit me, ... I just looked at him and said, 'Come on man.' It r...
ERIC HINSKE He said on the mound he didn't try to hit me. I just looked at him and said, 'Come on man.' It reall...
ERIC HINSKE He can run. But he cant hide.
JOE E. LOUIS J.J. came out today and got 35 points in a very workmanlike way. Maryland did a really good job on h...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI We felt if we worked with him, get him to eat on his own and if we could, then we could get him on e...
ANDREA ZLAVIS We're not going to stop Gilbert Arenas. Larry chased him around off screens and tried to contest eve...
MIKE BROWN He just shows leadership as a sophomore, and he gets other guys more confident going into games ... ...
JAMES PASCOE The real test will be when we get him on the mound -- and then after his mound exposure, we'll let h...
BRAD ARNSBERG He was definitely dominant on the mound today.
CORY WHITE As the days pass by, it would seem that he may not run because he is not energizing his base or the ...
CLEMENT ALEXANDER PRICE He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had ...
GEORGE ORWELL Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.--Ray Bradbury
T.K. THORNE We don't support him on the fact he was fighting but I support him as my son. I just hope he survive...
DAVID HICKS We just didn't seem to be able to get anything settled. We seemed to be a couple of inches off (on p...
MATHIEU SCHNEIDER The guy can pitch, but we had an opportunity to beat him today, just like we had an opportunity to b...
DUSTY BAKER We do not receive any funding from the Girl Scouts. It's all run on community support.
JOAN EMANUEL Jim is a good friend of mine, but we want to beat their tail off just like anybody else we play.
BUDDY GOULDSMITH the thing is you can get used to anything you think you cant you want to die but you dont you cant y...
ELIZABETH SCOTT My pitchers hadn't thrown off a mound yet and we had not seen any live pitching.
KORY MCELRAVY Stanfill put him on his tail four or five times, ... Steve was a great athlete, confident and cocky,...
VINCE DOOLEY Offensively, we left way too many men on base. And defensively, we made two mistakes today and they ...
DOUG SANKEY His secondary stuff works but we want him to pitch off his fastball which will be what it takes for ...
CHARLIE CORBELL We had plenty of chances, but we just didn't capitalize. We loaded the bases with nobody out and can...
BILL SEXTON We've just got to be more consistent on the mound. There isn't any doubt we'll be able to swing it. ...
ROBERT ABALOS And when I saw you kissing that girl
My heart, it shattered and my eyes, they watered
And ...
KATE NASH McCarty has thrown well for us all year when we have needed him to. Any time we can score four runs ...
JEFF EDDLEMAN The thing we want most out of him is his leadership. The kid has worked hard. He's an avid weight li...
BOB ARCURIO I asked him where he got to and he said probably 80 per cent. Just seeing him actually on a mound ag...
BRAD ARNSBERG It was hard for us to score. We had opportunities to score, but we just could not get it. When I fou...
MANNY GARCIA But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckie...
NORMAN WISDOM Sam's just a great athlete, and a competitor. We're not sure how much we're really going to use him ...
GREG KAATZ This was his best, or most effective, performance all the way around. As far as just success on the ...
JASON PORTZ because he can't get his own party to support him.
STANLEY KLEIN You've got to attack his weaknesses, put pressure on him and get him rattled. But he's got big-play ...
CHARLIE PEPRAH I'm like an ouroboros who's just chewing on his tail to no avail.
ANDONI GARCIA For me, it's just going up on the mound and trying to get outs.
MASAHIRO TANAKA Westbrook battled his tail off out there, ... They didn't make it easy on him, either. He made big p...
ERIC WEDGE He's just a sophomore, and he's a stud. He only does it against the good teams. Imagine if we had an...
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NATALIE URQUIETA The truth hit him. Jason wasn't quite Roman anymore. His time at Camp Half-Blood had changed him. Re...
RICK RIORDAN He had a torn muscle in his left-hind leg, ... We did an internal blister on him and gave him some d...
TODD PLETCHER There's nothing sick about him. His muscles aren't strong enough to support him just yet, but that's...
KAREN SUTTON I'll be thinking about it, but I want the ball again. I just got behind him and he was looking fastb...
JOSH HANCOCK He's done nothing around here to turn a person off -- in the clubhouse or on the mound. He's product...
GRADY LITTLE If you wanted to run for any office on the South Side, you needed to meet with the Three Franks.
LARRY HUFFORD While in my late teens and in my 20s, I worked seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I worked my tail o...
JOHN CATSIMATIDIS A one-year ban on any bowler is a big setback and he would be disappointed. But he has been a vital ...
ABBAS ZAIDI That's the thing with Robert, if you ask him to do something, he does it until he's good at it. We a...
CHAD CLUVER Mark always worked overtime when it was offered to him, but we always lived on his 40-hour-a-week sa...
LORI GORNEY God is merciful cant we all be on the right track of faith but just using different roads?
ALI AL-AHMED The more you see of the old Jason Schmidt, the more you want to sign him. We need him to get through...
BRIAN SABEAN I don't see what can stop it. We don't see any point where it will tail off.
MAURICE FLANAGAN This kid worked his rear off to get up here. I don't want to be sour grapes ... but I'm a father.
BILL HARTLEY He's worked with many people over the years, but we seem to be his favorite. With him not being ther...
MARTEL STRANGE What we worked on this summer was our vertical. I don't have great size. But these girls can get off...
JAVIER RAMIREZ We cant afford to lose him halfway through the season.
DAVE BEAUDOIN He would always come down on his own and watch film. He worked hard to get better, and it's paying o...
PAUL VOSBURGH Woodall was outstanding. He had total command of the mound and three pitches. They got one good swin...
TOM SLATER Glen just can't seem to get the Woody Hayes out of him,
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each one a pride, RAY BRADBURY We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe
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RAY BRADBURY Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them wh...
RAY BRADBURY You'll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted i...
RAY BRADBURY We're seeing a big increase in recent years in oyster sets on our beaches. A couple years ago we had...
ALEX BRADBURY Every year we go out and see people using screwdrivers and filet knives and hammers, and you're alwa...
ALEX BRADBURY There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
RAY BRADBURY You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like...
RAY BRADBURY Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's...
RAY BRADBURY You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers alwa...
RAY BRADBURY Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
RAY BRADBURY Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw t...
RAY BRADBURY Sunsets are loved because they vanish.
Flowers are loved because they go.
The ...
RAY BRADBURY Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore ...
RAY BRADBURY Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
RAY BRADBURY Sunsets we always liked because they only happen once and go away."
"But, Lena, that's sad." RAY BRADBURY No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now.
RAY BRADBURY I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down...
RAY BRADBURY The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things tha...
RAY BRADBURY I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits ...
RAY BRADBURY When I was a boy in the midwest I used to go out and look at the stars at night and wonder about the...
RAY BRADBURY There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a ...
RAY BRADBURY Le cose che voi cercate, Montag, sono su questa terra, ma il solo modo per cui l’uomo medio potrà...
RAY BRADBURY Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still wr...
RAY BRADBURY Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind ...
RAY BRADBURY First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.
RAY BRADBURY I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.
RAY BRADBURY Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is ...
RAY BRADBURY Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. ...
RAY BRADBURY A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, i...
RAY BRADBURY And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I...
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