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We hit some rockets that they just caught. It's not like we didn't swing the bat.
ALAN BYRD I was trying to swing the bat with some authority, and not be overly defensive.
KHALIL GREENE Those three kids have swung consistent bats all spring and they came through with those doubles all ...
CHRIS ARNOLD Its the 11th inning, man. You've got to bring your 'A' game, like I always say, ... I just wanted to...
DAVID ORTIZ In a way it was good that we lost the doubles point. Four of the six singles points had to be win. L...
KATHY KOLANKIEWICZ It's awfully difficult going into the late innings with a one-run lead, especially the ninth inning....
MIKE HARGROVE It was a close game going into that fifth inning and they just blew it open. We started the inning w...
JASON HERMAN When you have an at-bat like that, it wears the pitcher. It sets the tone. It helps the whole psyche...
BILL WRIGHT I had two good swings (in the first four plate appearances), so I went back to the cage and worked w...
JIMMY ROLLINS Everything that was happening was good for our team. The kids came through with some good situationa...
ERIC NIESLANIK I though the key point in the game was Scott Andrews coming in first and third and Duke with a 2-1 l...
BILLY GODWIN That's a good team. You can't give four or five outs an inning like we did a few innings, because ev...
GEORGE BRIDGE There was no selfishness. You'd have Robin Ventura oh-for-four with three K's coming in in the eight...
JOE MCEWING![]()
Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.
ROGER MOORE It's pretty impressive to come in like that and do what he does. One swing of the bat with him up th...
BRAD HENNESSEY It was weird to get my first at-bat before I pitched my first inning. That helped me relax. I was ju...
PAUL MAHOLM Through five, I did exactly what I wanted to do with most of the pitches. In the sixth inning, just ...
SHAWN CHACON We didn't swing the bat at all the first four innings.
RON WHITEHURST It's good to get Andrew back on track swinging the bat. He had a grand slam this morning and then a ...
CHARLIE PULEO We've done it like that all year long. We seem to find a way to get two, three or four runs at the f...
JEFF EDDLEMAN That he was in the same area (as the athletes) created quite some concern for us.
ARNE LJUNGQVIST Offensively, I am a little disappointed in how we've been swinging the bat this weekend. Fortunately...
JOE HUDAK We've been giving teams four and five outs an inning and tonight it just happened the other way. The...
ERNIE BECK In the playoffs, you're going to see good pitching so it's going to take everybody. But having Garre...
ADAM KENNEDY I was never upset that we had lost four in a row because we played some good teams during that stret...
DAVE REASBECK We finally started swinging the bat the way we're capable of doing. It feels good that we started pu...
JOEY ESTRELLA There were some goofy decisions that had to be made that wouldn't normally wouldn't have been made. ...
ROBBIE WINE They swing the bat very well. It's a young, good team.
MANNY HERMOSILLO I had no idea that all the things in my career were going to happen. I sure didn't see it. I jus...
TONY GWYNN![]()
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER We came out early and scored some runs. But we didn't get totally focused until the fourth inning. F...
AMY HUNT The years I spent pining for her, trying to subtly convince her that I was the man she needed to be ...
CRAIG R. KEY Be relaxed and don't wave the bat, don't clench it. Be ready to hit down with the barrel of the bat....
PAUL WANER It was nice to finally get a big inning. We got three big hits in that inning, and we also had some ...
DAVE SCHWEDER I?m pretty upset at the fact that we lost. I don?t like losing two in a row, but sometimes that come...
ROBERT ESCHE The best part about it is knowing that we don't have to go back to Atlanta, ... We had some bats out...
CHRIS BURKE![]()
The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
EARL WEAVER The two walks and the ball in center field that dropped obviously were bigger contributors in that i...
MIKE SCIOSCIA I'm like Bill Parcells in that I'm not ready to throw a parade, but there was a lot to like about th...
BILL MCDONALD The good thing was that's all they got. There were several other runners on. We just controlled that...
GAYLE BLEVINS![]()
Great rolls of toilet paper arc like ejaculate through the black sycamores.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG We had some close matches and had some opportunities with some of the other singles and doubles, but...
DONALYN WOESTE We're just trying to get these guys to swing the bat. Our pitching will be good. We just don't get g...
DOUG GROVE![]()
I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Perez was outstanding. That was the second one (good start) in a row. ... We just need that to be mo...
GRADY LITTLE That was my whole point, for them to swing the bat. I only had a certain amount of pitches and he wa...
MATT MORRIS The juniors are a pretty good class, and we have five good sophomores. I feel pretty fortunate becau...
BOB GRIMES In games like this some kids get to bat that may not bat again.
ALAN BYRD I don't think there's one thing you can hang your hat on and say you won or lost with. The two walks...
MIKE SCIOSCIA It feels good. Not just to win three in a row, but to win four out of five.
BRAD SODERBERG Today was a day when I was going to relax and it ended up working out for me, ... I got a chance to ...
CRAIG MONROE![]()
I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people yo...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ![]()
Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER It seemed like that inning we were able to break it open with everyone hitting the ball so hard.
JOE HIGGINS We hurt ourselves bad with the errors there. You just can't give teams four or five outs in an innin...
BILL SEXTON I was swinging to swing the bat, like he (assistant coach Alex Marconi) said. I want to swing at the...
BRAD MILLER I was lucky. A lot of people have that. People that don't tell you what you want to hear, but wh...
KEVIN LOVE![]()
I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.
ANI DIFRANCO That was a good run by a sophomore. There were a lot good athletes on the track.
BILL HARRELSON The guys did a great job of battling and had some great at bats in that last inning. We didn't have ...
DAVID BEASLEY![]()
I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row wi...
HAROLD S. GENEEN Sometimes it just takes one swing of the bat to get out of a slump.
HAROLD REYNOLDS![]()
…If anything else, all I ever did was love you….
BETH FANTASKEY I like our club. We just got going offensively. We just did not swing the bat today. That's what it ...
DANNY PRICE![]()
- I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem.
- Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI It's easy coaching, isn't it? Just letting them swing the bat.
NEIL BURKE![]()
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD He swung the bat really well. He's been struggling a little bit with his swing this past weekend. He...
RICH ALDAY Didn't throw a strike. (Miller) was all over the place.I don't think I have seen an inning like that...
MIKE REAGAN I thought the start of the third quarter really hurt us. We had three, four, or five possessions wit...
ED BELVA You look at their numbers and you'd think we were in a softball league. They have some young guys wh...
BRUCE BOCHY I thought playing at Carolina would be a lot better and I went with it. Every time I get in there, I...
DREW MARTIN They made off with four computers and some petty cash. Some money that was left around to buy stamps...
BILL BRENNAN Today was a day when I was going to relax and it ended up
working out for me, ... I got a chanc...
CRAIG MONROE Payton “Sin” Sinclair was an unapologetic people-watcher. As a sports consultant, working with s...
FRANCIS RAY I was very impressed with our play today. We broke it open with a seven run fifth inning. We had som...
COURTNEY HARRNESS It was a tough game. We finally knocked down some free throws -- four in a row -- at the end.
CASSANDRA RAHMING Some years are smaller and some are larger. I don't have an explanation for that. They're like athle...
DON BOHANAN We came to a big meet and acted like we deserved to be here. We were put into some real good heats, ...
JENNIFER JOYCE Miranda hit the three free throws, and they go down and miss an easy shot to end the half. That was ...
CURT FREDRICKSON We do see him as a future third baseman. In my mind, and this is strictly my mind, I'd like to see h...
BILL LAJOIE I always have confidence, whether I miss four in a row or make four in a row, that the next one'...
STEPHEN CURRY Doubles was really fun today. We were having some trouble in doubles, so we made some changes today,...
CRAIG MANNING Previously I don?t think we won two doubles matches in any of our matches. So, today was a little st...
JOE VAVERCHAK We need a guy in that role who's not afraid to swing the bat. And this guy is not afraid.
MIKE HARGROVE I know some people don't like that, but they have some tremendous athletes. There were some times wh...
DAVE KOHNEN We just had a lot of good athletes at the time. We won league in just about everything. It was one o...
CLINT JOHNSON![]()
It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV We played very poorly last week but we got some breaks. We were not pleased and the kids know we wer...
RANDALL BACKUS When you swing the bats like that, you're going to be pretty tough to beat. It was a good day. The h...
CRAIG NICHOLSON Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE I thought he was trying to kill me. He's already broken my nose. He's taken a swing at me with a bas...
BRADFORD CARL ROSS![]()
I like The Four Freshmen, anything with good harmonies, some Beach Boys. I like the girl groups as w...
ALEX TURNER I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ...
BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power.
SHESH NATH VERNWAL I was blessed with blonde hair and a baby face - well, I don't know if you'd call that bless...
CLAY MATTHEWS III I was an all-around player - if I was just a scorer, there's no way the Hawks would have won 50 ...
DOMINIQUE WILKINS It was great doubles and could have gone either way. It's tough to lose the doubles, because you alw...
LESLEY SHEEHAN Actually, I think the biggest at-bat of that whole inning was Quintero's. He got the single up the m...
ADAM EVERETT
ALAN BYRD I was trying to swing the bat with some authority, and not be overly defensive.
KHALIL GREENE Those three kids have swung consistent bats all spring and they came through with those doubles all ...
CHRIS ARNOLD Its the 11th inning, man. You've got to bring your 'A' game, like I always say, ... I just wanted to...
DAVID ORTIZ In a way it was good that we lost the doubles point. Four of the six singles points had to be win. L...
KATHY KOLANKIEWICZ It's awfully difficult going into the late innings with a one-run lead, especially the ninth inning....
MIKE HARGROVE It was a close game going into that fifth inning and they just blew it open. We started the inning w...
JASON HERMAN When you have an at-bat like that, it wears the pitcher. It sets the tone. It helps the whole psyche...
BILL WRIGHT I had two good swings (in the first four plate appearances), so I went back to the cage and worked w...
JIMMY ROLLINS Everything that was happening was good for our team. The kids came through with some good situationa...
ERIC NIESLANIK I though the key point in the game was Scott Andrews coming in first and third and Duke with a 2-1 l...
BILLY GODWIN That's a good team. You can't give four or five outs an inning like we did a few innings, because ev...
GEORGE BRIDGE There was no selfishness. You'd have Robin Ventura oh-for-four with three K's coming in in the eight...
JOE MCEWING
Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty. ROGER MOORE It's pretty impressive to come in like that and do what he does. One swing of the bat with him up th...
BRAD HENNESSEY It was weird to get my first at-bat before I pitched my first inning. That helped me relax. I was ju...
PAUL MAHOLM Through five, I did exactly what I wanted to do with most of the pitches. In the sixth inning, just ...
SHAWN CHACON We didn't swing the bat at all the first four innings.
RON WHITEHURST It's good to get Andrew back on track swinging the bat. He had a grand slam this morning and then a ...
CHARLIE PULEO We've done it like that all year long. We seem to find a way to get two, three or four runs at the f...
JEFF EDDLEMAN That he was in the same area (as the athletes) created quite some concern for us.
ARNE LJUNGQVIST Offensively, I am a little disappointed in how we've been swinging the bat this weekend. Fortunately...
JOE HUDAK We've been giving teams four and five outs an inning and tonight it just happened the other way. The...
ERNIE BECK In the playoffs, you're going to see good pitching so it's going to take everybody. But having Garre...
ADAM KENNEDY I was never upset that we had lost four in a row because we played some good teams during that stret...
DAVE REASBECK We finally started swinging the bat the way we're capable of doing. It feels good that we started pu...
JOEY ESTRELLA There were some goofy decisions that had to be made that wouldn't normally wouldn't have been made. ...
ROBBIE WINE They swing the bat very well. It's a young, good team.
MANNY HERMOSILLO I had no idea that all the things in my career were going to happen. I sure didn't see it. I jus...
TONY GWYNN
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER We came out early and scored some runs. But we didn't get totally focused until the fourth inning. F...
AMY HUNT The years I spent pining for her, trying to subtly convince her that I was the man she needed to be ...
CRAIG R. KEY Be relaxed and don't wave the bat, don't clench it. Be ready to hit down with the barrel of the bat....
PAUL WANER It was nice to finally get a big inning. We got three big hits in that inning, and we also had some ...
DAVE SCHWEDER I?m pretty upset at the fact that we lost. I don?t like losing two in a row, but sometimes that come...
ROBERT ESCHE The best part about it is knowing that we don't have to go back to Atlanta, ... We had some bats out...
CHRIS BURKE
The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat. EARL WEAVER The two walks and the ball in center field that dropped obviously were bigger contributors in that i...
MIKE SCIOSCIA I'm like Bill Parcells in that I'm not ready to throw a parade, but there was a lot to like about th...
BILL MCDONALD The good thing was that's all they got. There were several other runners on. We just controlled that...
GAYLE BLEVINS
Great rolls of toilet paper arc like ejaculate through the black sycamores. GARTH RISK HALLBERG We had some close matches and had some opportunities with some of the other singles and doubles, but...
DONALYN WOESTE We're just trying to get these guys to swing the bat. Our pitching will be good. We just don't get g...
DOUG GROVE
I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL Perez was outstanding. That was the second one (good start) in a row. ... We just need that to be mo...
GRADY LITTLE That was my whole point, for them to swing the bat. I only had a certain amount of pitches and he wa...
MATT MORRIS The juniors are a pretty good class, and we have five good sophomores. I feel pretty fortunate becau...
BOB GRIMES In games like this some kids get to bat that may not bat again.
ALAN BYRD I don't think there's one thing you can hang your hat on and say you won or lost with. The two walks...
MIKE SCIOSCIA It feels good. Not just to win three in a row, but to win four out of five.
BRAD SODERBERG Today was a day when I was going to relax and it ended up working out for me, ... I got a chance to ...
CRAIG MONROE
I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people yo... BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine. CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER It seemed like that inning we were able to break it open with everyone hitting the ball so hard.
JOE HIGGINS We hurt ourselves bad with the errors there. You just can't give teams four or five outs in an innin...
BILL SEXTON I was swinging to swing the bat, like he (assistant coach Alex Marconi) said. I want to swing at the...
BRAD MILLER I was lucky. A lot of people have that. People that don't tell you what you want to hear, but wh...
KEVIN LOVE
I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between. ANI DIFRANCO That was a good run by a sophomore. There were a lot good athletes on the track.
BILL HARRELSON The guys did a great job of battling and had some great at bats in that last inning. We didn't have ...
DAVID BEASLEY
I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row wi... HAROLD S. GENEEN Sometimes it just takes one swing of the bat to get out of a slump.
HAROLD REYNOLDS
…If anything else, all I ever did was love you…. BETH FANTASKEY I like our club. We just got going offensively. We just did not swing the bat today. That's what it ...
DANNY PRICE
- I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem.- Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI It's easy coaching, isn't it? Just letting them swing the bat.
NEIL BURKE
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD He swung the bat really well. He's been struggling a little bit with his swing this past weekend. He...
RICH ALDAY Didn't throw a strike. (Miller) was all over the place.I don't think I have seen an inning like that...
MIKE REAGAN I thought the start of the third quarter really hurt us. We had three, four, or five possessions wit...
ED BELVA You look at their numbers and you'd think we were in a softball league. They have some young guys wh...
BRUCE BOCHY I thought playing at Carolina would be a lot better and I went with it. Every time I get in there, I...
DREW MARTIN They made off with four computers and some petty cash. Some money that was left around to buy stamps...
BILL BRENNAN Today was a day when I was going to relax and it ended up
working out for me, ... I got a chanc...
CRAIG MONROE Payton “Sin” Sinclair was an unapologetic people-watcher. As a sports consultant, working with s...
FRANCIS RAY I was very impressed with our play today. We broke it open with a seven run fifth inning. We had som...
COURTNEY HARRNESS It was a tough game. We finally knocked down some free throws -- four in a row -- at the end.
CASSANDRA RAHMING Some years are smaller and some are larger. I don't have an explanation for that. They're like athle...
DON BOHANAN We came to a big meet and acted like we deserved to be here. We were put into some real good heats, ...
JENNIFER JOYCE Miranda hit the three free throws, and they go down and miss an easy shot to end the half. That was ...
CURT FREDRICKSON We do see him as a future third baseman. In my mind, and this is strictly my mind, I'd like to see h...
BILL LAJOIE I always have confidence, whether I miss four in a row or make four in a row, that the next one'...
STEPHEN CURRY Doubles was really fun today. We were having some trouble in doubles, so we made some changes today,...
CRAIG MANNING Previously I don?t think we won two doubles matches in any of our matches. So, today was a little st...
JOE VAVERCHAK We need a guy in that role who's not afraid to swing the bat. And this guy is not afraid.
MIKE HARGROVE I know some people don't like that, but they have some tremendous athletes. There were some times wh...
DAVE KOHNEN We just had a lot of good athletes at the time. We won league in just about everything. It was one o...
CLINT JOHNSON
It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting... VLADIMIR NABOKOV We played very poorly last week but we got some breaks. We were not pleased and the kids know we wer...
RANDALL BACKUS When you swing the bats like that, you're going to be pretty tough to beat. It was a good day. The h...
CRAIG NICHOLSON Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE I thought he was trying to kill me. He's already broken my nose. He's taken a swing at me with a bas...
BRADFORD CARL ROSS
I like The Four Freshmen, anything with good harmonies, some Beach Boys. I like the girl groups as w... ALEX TURNER I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ...
BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power.
SHESH NATH VERNWAL I was blessed with blonde hair and a baby face - well, I don't know if you'd call that bless...
CLAY MATTHEWS III I was an all-around player - if I was just a scorer, there's no way the Hawks would have won 50 ...
DOMINIQUE WILKINS It was great doubles and could have gone either way. It's tough to lose the doubles, because you alw...
LESLEY SHEEHAN Actually, I think the biggest at-bat of that whole inning was Quintero's. He got the single up the m...
ADAM EVERETT
Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I... 
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. 
you might want to decide fast. We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you ha... 
He put the book down. “As you wish.” He rose and walked past me. I lowered my sword, expecting h... 
Did I hurt you in the parking lot?"
I’m smart in some ways- pretty good vocabulary, solid at math – but I am definitely the stupides... 
Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us down
Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it. 
If this were a video game, you could just break everything in this room and a bunch of money would c... 
Mom was asking me to resume a friendship that had no honest foundation and ended on screamingly awkw... 