11,065 Quotes About Ball

The kids are playing with a lot of confidence right now. They are hitting the ball at a good time and we are getting good pitching performances.

It was not very wonderful that Catherine . . . should prefer cricket, base ball . . . to books.

They ran the ball on us all game two years ago. They pretty much ran the ball on us at will. It was going downhill on us every play. It just wasn't good.

The strategy is to frustrate the other team by trying to make them play in front of you, by not giving them holes and by being as compact as possible. You have to move the ball even quicker than when you have 11 men because they are going to try and pressure you. There are opportunities to get at them but they did a good job of closing us down. But I think we did an equally good job of holding on to the ball when we did have possession.

We weren't happy being up two at halftime. I wasn't happy with our ball pressure in the first quarter and I really wanted them to pressure the ball and, in the second half, they picked it up.

It was a nail-biter. Avoca has a strong team, they control the ball well and my girls found out they had to play the same type of game.

I told the girls to stay focused and stay calm and put the ball in the middle of the court. At the end, we subbed and (Avoca) tried to freeze our servers with timeouts, but we just switched servers and that seemed to do it.

Maybe what it all says is that with colleges throwing the ball so much, the running back position has become less important. There's some truth to that, and maybe we're seeing the effects of it in the draft.

The first quarter we really played well, but then I thought we were spotty and didn't finish. We moved the ball up and down the field all night. We just didn't finish drives.