Swing Quotes

You're not going to win many games getting two hits. . . . I don't know what we could have done differently. We just didn't get a whole lot of good swings. - Bob Melvin

You're not going to get them every day. There's going to be days where you just swing the bat and don't get those. But if we continue to get the starting pitching we've had the last few days, I think we'll be fine, I think we can compete. I know, with our lineup, we're going to score runs. - Jerry Narron

You're never feeling comfortable out there... You just try to trust your swing and let it go. If you miss, you miss. You've just got to have confidence that you're not going to miss. - Jason Elam

You're looking at someone who has that leadoff ability but also could get you home runs. We see Andrew as having a power kind of swing, and we want to make sure we give him the opportunity to develop that. - Brian Graham

You're done if you leave it over the middle on him. He doesn't get cheated on his swing. - Eric Lindstrom

You're cannon fodder unless you move the ball laterally on these wickets, but we utilized the ball as it began to reverse (swing). - Monty Panesar

Your swing is short all the way through it and [you] finish high. Baseball is the same thing -- short through and finish high. - Sal Colangelo

You'd think you were taking good swings off him, but his ball had a little extra life on it, and you'd foul it off. He steps up on the big stage, and he did it today. - John Flaherty

You would think, at this level, that you shouldn't have to coach tackling. No, you do. The people that don't, don't tackle well. You watch games and say, 'Man, that's sloppy tackling.' Well, you have to work on tackles and angles. It's your fundamentals. It's like if you are playing golf, you work on your golf swing even if you played 20 years, right? - Rod Marinelli