Ball Quotes

As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want.

Basically, they played better than us. They executed almost the whole game. They shot the ball well. Everything they wanted to run they ran.

That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that.

Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.

We played a good team ? probably the best team in district. They hit the ball well, have a lot of speed and are solid on defense. There are not many weak spots on that team.

It's like I'm trying to run before I get the ball. I don't make sure I have a good grip on it and let it slip away from me. The biggest thing is getting over that if it does happen and just move on.

The guards definitely take full responsibility for that. We didn't get the ball to the big guys, me included. That's something we can't let happen again.

...The ball was in!.........

It's not any special recipe. It's just really sucking up, defending and playing hard on that end of the ball.

Get to the ball carrier before he gets started, or prevent the O-line from getting to our linebackers.

I was getting tired from playing both sides of the ball and returning punts. I beat my guy. It was a good ball. He went high on the tackle, so I went low and broke it for a touchdown.

I'm a grown man, ... I take full responsibility for what I did. It was a ball. I don't like it. I let my anger come out. I did whatever I needed to do. If nobody likes it, they could come and talk to me and we can talk about it like a man.

We tried to serve our best serve all of the time. We wanted to put the ball in, and let them make mistakes. We knew if we could serve tough, we would have a chance.

I've been trying to hit the ball to right field. When I try to pull the ball, I hit foul balls. When I hit it to right field, I get doubles.

I saw him kick the ball when I got to first base. When I saw that, I'm going, no doubt about that. Put myself in scoring position. I run hard out of the box every time. You never know what might happen with the ball.

This ball club is a lot better than last year. There's no way we're going to keep doing this.

I'm positive I touched the ball down over the line.

I caught the ball. It was strike three. He was out?. It's not my fault. I take no responsibility for that whatsoever.

When they started understanding things kind of clicked together, it showed. We started shooting the ball better. We have come a long way from the beginning of the year.

We have been working on finishing goals. Not shooting the ball wildly is our goal ... look up, be calm and use the banana (a spin placed on the ball to make it curve).

You're going to have nights where the ball doesn't go in the basket, but if you're going to win a championship, you've got to be solid, tough and physical defensively and I don't think we were that, especially in the last 10 minutes of that game.

Parfait sprained his ankle, and he was out. We needed another ball handler, another guy to help in the backcourt. I thought he did a very fine job. We really missed Parfait from a defensive standpoint, because he's so aggressive. Down the stretch, it's important we do a better job of that.

I thought Brandon had a tremendous game on both sides of the ball and his decision making was quite good, ... You got to remember you're going against one of the best defensive teams in Iowa and they gave us problems all night long.

He was strong enough to hold off the defender and get the ball off to Chris and Chris finds an opening and he just makes something happen.

We didn't connect. It wasn't lack of effort. It was lack of preparation and passing the ball. They played hard, they busted their butt to win the ball, but we didn't play together and that's what we've been doing in our workouts. Our effort was there, but our team play wasn't.