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Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
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BILL PLUMMER I just saw the ball coming down. You know how it usually hits the ground and takes a funky bounce, r...
MATT WARE It was just a missed spot. I left the ball up in the zone and they hit it.
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SKIP CARR You basically should not throw a breaking ball, any type of breaking ball, including a slider, until...
JAMES ANDREWS They just did the little things it took. The ball Dye ball hit was a hopper up the middle, and he fo...
BRAD LIDGE Rudy has a great slider and changeup to go with that fastball, ... He did a great job pitching to Bo...
RAMON HERNANDEZ The home run shouldn't have happened. I left the ball up. I threw a bad pitch on a count that he was...
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EVANS G. VALENS During two-a-days when we did our hitting drills, (Staples) was always the one in the front of the l...
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YUVRAJ SINGH I was just thinking, ?Jimmy, hit a ball out of the park to tie the game or get a base hit,'
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REID NICHOLS I went to see some doctors one year, had a contact in one eye for a while. I was seeing the ball wel...
MIKE LOWELL I had good stuff, ... I was staying on top of the ball because I could not bend down. It was a bless...
BARTOLO COLON When the ball was hit, my first reaction as a shortstop was always go in the direction of the ball. ...
BEN ZOBRIST We all used to go down to watch Chuck Thome hit the ball. Then, around 1940, his son Art turned into...
JOE STOWELL This was definitely a tough one to lose. It was a well-played game and Martins Ferry deserves all of...
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I always loved hitting a low fade to a back-right pin with the wind howling from the right. Not many...
LEE TREVINO I'm trying to figure out if I should throw a curve ball, or a slider.
CARLOS GUTIERREZ Both of them hit the ball to the net man too much. In doubles that's kind of a cardinal sin. You hit...
JAMES VANEK Sam threw a great game, mixing her pitches well and staying ahead of the hitters. We hit the ball we...
RANDY BARTON It was really a dull, walk-the-ball-up-and-down-the-floor kind of game. When you do that and turn th...
LARRY USHER Elliot is a great hitter and has good pop for a second baseman. He's proving he can hit the ball to ...
GABRIEL MARTINEZ My style of pitching was to make the other team hit the ball, but on the ground.
CARL HUBBELL I remember it as a narrow course, where you had to hit the ball straight. It was a 'position' course...
GENE LITTLER I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG We hit the ball well (Tuesday), which is good to see. We had a lot of girls take some good swings, a...
DAN CAMPBELL I was getting tired from playing both sides of the ball and returning punts. I beat my guy. It was a...
JOSEPH STONER I was on top of the route and I made a very bad decision to go for the interception. That's just my ...
AARON GLENN Instead of setting one person, I can set anyone and know the ball will get in the court. I don't hav...
CRISTEN TRENT The stadium wasn't the best, and the lights weren't the best. Wallis hit the ball by the lights. And...
BRUCE SUTTER When you hit a ball like that, you don't think you have a chance. I looked up halfway down the line,...
JOSH RODRIGUEZ We just run a high-low game and if we don?t get the shot, you just get the ball to the other one. We...
EMILEE HARMON I was trying to hit the ball hard somewhere. He threw me a ball that I could handle and I hit it har...
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BILL EVERS Just one bad pitch. I tip my hat to J.T. because he hit a good 3-2 changeup. But my slider was not w...
KRIS BENSON
To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit. ROGERS HORNSBY So up came Gehrig. He was a sharp hitter. You could double him, too, now and then, if the ball was h...
CARL HUBBELL When that ball got out, it was like, man, such a proud feeling. When you hit one in the season, it's...
DERREK LEE Alex was bringing the ball down and crossing it. Every time she brought the ball down she wanted to ...
BEV OSTERBERG That was a blooper down the line and I was playing him in the gap, ... You would never expect him to...
RUBEN SIERRA The ball was jumping out of his hand. His velocity jumped up with it, his slider was tighter and he ...
JOHN FLAHERTY They woke up in the second game. That was the difference between game one and two. They hit the ball...
DANA FIEDLER At the beginning, I was getting a little bit panicked because he's definitely our number one (starte...
DOUG SANKEY Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. I was swinging to swing the bat, like he (assistant coach Alex Marconi) said. I want to swing at the...
BRAD MILLER
He threw the ball well and freely, but he was up with his pitches. He hung a slider. That's going to... FRANK ROBINSON One through nine in our lineup can hit. They all put the ball in play and get on base, but Betsy is ...
JAY ARTALL It was a fastball because I wasn't going to walk in a run there. I was going to throw him a strike a...
BRIAN LAWRENCE It was nice to see that ball go out. That was a big hit right there.
DANNY MITCHELL We had a couple on base [with none out] and Tony [Clark] up there. The ball Trace hit was hit good. ...
BOB MELVIN We couldn't get the bunt down and then Brittany had two strikes and hit the ball hard, but it ended ...
MARISSA CHOVANEC He had the knack for being able to put the bat on the ball. They would bring in side-arming left-han...
BOB WATSON
If I hadn't gotten on base and Molitor singled, Carter wouldn't have gotten the pitch he got to hit ... RICKEY HENDERSON Jay is a guy who is always going to put the ball in play. He's a decent hitter, a good hitter. Fortu...
LUIS ALICEA I didn't do my job and that's disappointing, especially this late in the season, ... I kept the ball...
KIRK SAARLOOS It was a pretty good pitch. I think [Jones] was looking for it. How he hit that ball -- yeah, I shou...
FREDDY GARCIA He throws hard, the ball moves everywhere. He threw a hard slider. He's tough to hit.
TODD HELTON Liz was our best hitter. She is a three-year starter, and is very strong. She could hit the ball rea...
BILL WOLF
If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER That was a base hit. It was one of those days where the ball bounced their way.
ROSE ANTONIO You've got to always want the ball, ... You've got two athletes right there trying to make a play on...
CHAD OWENS You could hit a slice and then the ball would go up and the wind would blow it back at you. This is ...
RACHEL ELKINS It was a huge at-bat, because the game was pretty close. We had guys on first and second, so in my m...
BEN SAYLOR Last year, we didn't care if (opponents) knew where the ball was going. But now we don't have a hitt...
LARRY PETERSON That was a big clutch hit from Mitch. Two-out hits are big. When you get a two-out hit, that changes...
RANDY BRETAG He said he could go one more. But you could see he was laboring out there, throwing the ball high,
DUSTY BAKER
The course is playing a little slower than it was last year, a little more receptive. It's softer th... TIGER WOODS It was nice. But the most pleasing thing about it was the way our pitchers threw the ball. Derek [Lo...
NOMAR GARCIAPARRA We think it was a no-hitter. They had a hard-hit ball right at our third baseman that got by him. It...
MIKE LITTLEWOOD
In my opinion, there was not a more feared hitter in baseball. When he walked to the plate and stare... WADE BOGGS I was trying to hit the ball hard somewhere, but both times right at people,
JOE MAUER
The ball Albert hit would've gone out anywhere. There weren't balls that were hit to the warning tra... TONY LA RUSSA That's the first curve ball I threw to a lefty all season. He was on my fast ball and changeup so I ...
MATT ELLIOTT One night we're playing San Francisco at home and Troy pulled a ball foul, it hit me right in the bu...
CARLOS TOSCA I really didn't hit the ball that hard. It was a curve ball. I mean, I didn't hit it that hard, but ...
BENGIE MOLINA The first pitch, he threw me was a slider and I swung kind of too hard. Then he threw me another one...
JERMAINE DYE I felt a hard hit in my back. I didn't know I'd get tackled, but no one was going to take the ball f...
JOEY SEARLE
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER I did see Mickey hit one that almost cleared the roof in right field, ... There's a facade hanging d...
BOB SHEPPARD
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS I thought we hit the ball really well today. (Terry) played a great game, hit the ball well. He is v...
CHAD BAKER This was a hard fought game on both sides. Jacobs showed great composure tonight the way he moved in...
JOHN SWEENEY The girls stayed in there and they fought. I thought we hit the ball all over the place both games. ...
JANET CHARTNEY He has better stuff than [the Yankees' Mariano] Rivera. With Rivera, you can put the ball in play. W...
CARLOS LEE We hit the ball pretty well earlier in the season, but we had never hit the ball that well until [la...
GREG CLEVELAND Having a five-run lead after one inning was a definite confidence booster, ... I felt pretty strong....
EDWIN JACKSON
She was a cyborg, and she would never go to a ball. MARISSA MEYER With one out, you just try to put a ball in play in the outfield. I was glad he took off.
JASON LANE It's always embarrassing to come off the field, especially before throwing your first pitch, ... I w...
JASON SCHMIDT
We wept, Brooklyn was a lovely place to hit. If you got a ball in the air, you had a chance to get i... DUKE SNIDER
Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE
We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE 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 A home run is a home run and you don't want to give up a cheap one. That definitely wasn't a cheap o...
BILL PLUMMER I just saw the ball coming down. You know how it usually hits the ground and takes a funky bounce, r...
MATT WARE It was just a missed spot. I left the ball up in the zone and they hit it.
GUSTAVO CHACIN
If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS That was my first ever grand slam. I never even hit one in little league. It really felt good. I jus...
BRANDON PHILLIPS At this point, I'm really not going to worry about it. The only thing I can do is go out and hit the...
CRAIG WILSON He was around the plate, curve ball was working good ... kept them off. He had one bad pitch I can t...
SKIP CARR You basically should not throw a breaking ball, any type of breaking ball, including a slider, until...
JAMES ANDREWS They just did the little things it took. The ball Dye ball hit was a hopper up the middle, and he fo...
BRAD LIDGE Rudy has a great slider and changeup to go with that fastball, ... He did a great job pitching to Bo...
RAMON HERNANDEZ The home run shouldn't have happened. I left the ball up. I threw a bad pitch on a count that he was...
PRESTON GUILMET How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS During two-a-days when we did our hitting drills, (Staples) was always the one in the front of the l...
BRIAN FITZGERALD When I was able to get back outside, I saw he was holding the ball low. I was just able to reach out...
MARQUES MURRELL
When I was a kid, I used to try and hit every ball out of the ground. After playing one-day cricket ... YUVRAJ SINGH I was just thinking, ?Jimmy, hit a ball out of the park to tie the game or get a base hit,'
ALBERT PUJOLS He's a contact hitter. He can run the ball down in the outfield. He's got a little speed.
REID NICHOLS I went to see some doctors one year, had a contact in one eye for a while. I was seeing the ball wel...
MIKE LOWELL I had good stuff, ... I was staying on top of the ball because I could not bend down. It was a bless...
BARTOLO COLON When the ball was hit, my first reaction as a shortstop was always go in the direction of the ball. ...
BEN ZOBRIST We all used to go down to watch Chuck Thome hit the ball. Then, around 1940, his son Art turned into...
JOE STOWELL This was definitely a tough one to lose. It was a well-played game and Martins Ferry deserves all of...
DON BETHEL
I always loved hitting a low fade to a back-right pin with the wind howling from the right. Not many... LEE TREVINO I'm trying to figure out if I should throw a curve ball, or a slider.
CARLOS GUTIERREZ Both of them hit the ball to the net man too much. In doubles that's kind of a cardinal sin. You hit...
JAMES VANEK Sam threw a great game, mixing her pitches well and staying ahead of the hitters. We hit the ball we...
RANDY BARTON It was really a dull, walk-the-ball-up-and-down-the-floor kind of game. When you do that and turn th...
LARRY USHER Elliot is a great hitter and has good pop for a second baseman. He's proving he can hit the ball to ...
GABRIEL MARTINEZ My style of pitching was to make the other team hit the ball, but on the ground.
CARL HUBBELL I remember it as a narrow course, where you had to hit the ball straight. It was a 'position' course...
GENE LITTLER I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG We hit the ball well (Tuesday), which is good to see. We had a lot of girls take some good swings, a...
DAN CAMPBELL I was getting tired from playing both sides of the ball and returning punts. I beat my guy. It was a...
JOSEPH STONER I was on top of the route and I made a very bad decision to go for the interception. That's just my ...
AARON GLENN Instead of setting one person, I can set anyone and know the ball will get in the court. I don't hav...
CRISTEN TRENT The stadium wasn't the best, and the lights weren't the best. Wallis hit the ball by the lights. And...
BRUCE SUTTER When you hit a ball like that, you don't think you have a chance. I looked up halfway down the line,...
JOSH RODRIGUEZ We just run a high-low game and if we don?t get the shot, you just get the ball to the other one. We...
EMILEE HARMON I was trying to hit the ball hard somewhere. He threw me a ball that I could handle and I hit it har...
VINNY CASTILLA
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