Swings Quotes

You've almost got to approach it like a state championship game. I knew the way (North Port swings) the bats, we'd better get as many runs as we could. - Charlie Smythers

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'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 talk about momentum swings. That one could be really devastating with the pitcher getting a hit and then all of a sudden we come back into the dugout tied. We didn't knock the cover off the ball after that, but certainly it kept it manageable and [gave us] an uplifting feeling. - Bob Melvin

You pretty much get what you put into it. Somebody who swings faster is going to make the ball go farther, we all know that. He's just not getting something that he doesn't deserve. - Dick Rugge

You name it, I just didn't have it. They put pretty good swings on 'em. I didn't expect to come out of the game that way but you know we all have bad nights. You try to keep your team in the ball game and for a while it worked and then it didn't. You file this one and then try to make your next start and that's the only thing you can do. - David Wells

You have to come up with the big hit, and Matsui had a huge hit. That was big for us, because we really didn't have too many good swings. - Derek Jeter

You go on the road and get a point, you have to be happy. I just felt we didn't step onto them after we got up. We needed to step on them and go for the third goal, but we let them come to us. We needed to step on and go for the third goal to kill them off. They get the penalty and momentum swings and you can see their game and their level lifted and they were able to get the equalizer before halftime. - Colin Clarke

You don't worry about what happened last year, ... We just think about continuing to play Angel baseball -- put good swings on the ball and play good defense. To me, that's why we're successful. - Chone Figgins

You don't get rewarded for good swings. I wasn't worried. As long as my swing is there, I know I'll get a hit somehow. - Jimmy Rollins