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• That was a great rebound. His basketball IQ is great. That was one where we knew we had the game.

  Aaron Brooks

  Topics in Sports

  Tags in Great, Game, Basketball

• Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.

  Esther Williams

  Topics in Sports

  Tags in News, World

• Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.

  Randy Castillo

  Topics in Achievement, Sports, Uncategorized

  Tags in Music

• The danger of parachuting young enthusiastic scientists into a flower bed of selected data and fully bloomed conceptions should be underestimated.

  A. Lwoff

  Topics in Sports

  Tags in Danger, Young, Flower

• But I was very much into sports when I was a child.

  Eva Herzigova

  Topics in Sports, Uncategorized

  Tags in Child

• My philosophy is to pay our own players. We stepped out of the box midway through last season. We didn’t want him to play for $380,000. We recognized his ability, but we didn’t get anywhere. That’s fine. Both parties have to agree. Unfortunately, we can’t seem to get it going. Hopefully we will. Now, we all know exactly what we’re up against.

  A. J. Smith

  Topics in Ability, Sports

  Tags in Philosophy, Players, Hopefully

• I don’t know if they were wrong. Sure you want your 1-2-3-4 picks to make it —- that’s how you get to have a good football team. But it’s going to be hard for a sixth- or seventh-rounder to make it.

  A. J. Smith

  Topics in Sports

  Tags in Football, Picks, Hard

• I think it is great for our people to be considered, but at the same token, you hate to lose some people because it is for your football team that they are good coaches.

  A. J. Smith

  Topics in Sports

  Tags in People, Great, Think

• Fran was at the Grey Cup. I don’t know how many teams actually send a director or scout. My point is he’s a tireless worker and he’ll look wherever there are players that you think can help your football team win.

  A. J. Smith

  Topics in Sports

  Tags in Teams, Players, Think

• He’s a terrific football player, very versatile. He’s tough and competitive.

  A. J. Smith

  Topics in Sports

  Tags in Versatile, Tough, Competitive

• If you move up, you’re going to pay a price. I wouldn’t be against giving up a package for a certain individual who you think is an incredible player, a difference-maker. But the people who go up to do something like that probably think, ‘We’re a player away from a world championship.’ I don’t know if we’re there yet.

  A. J. Smith

  Topics in Sports

  Tags in Price, Individual, Incredible, Probably

• I’m not interested in Donnie Edwards’ seven-year tackling statistics. I’m only interested in the type of player he is (currently) and the player he may be in the future.

  A. J. Smith

  Topics in Future, Sports

  Tags in Statistics, Interested

• If you’re up top, you get a marquee player through about 10 or 11. If you’re in the middle of the pack, you’ll miss out on that unless you go up.

  A. J. Smith

  Topics in Sports

  Tags in Player, Miss

• He’s our big deadline pickup. He hit a homer to win a World Series game against his old team. He’s a great pickup.

  A. J. Pierzynski

  Topics in Sports

  Tags in Pickup, Win, Great

• It was weird for me because I don’t want to show up the other team.

  A. J. Pierzynski

  Topics in Sports

  Tags in People, Weird, Team

• You score five runs in an inning off Roy, that just doesn’t happen a lot. We had some huge two-strike hits.

  A. J. Pierzynski

  Topics in Sports

  Tags in Score, Happen

• That could easily have been a tie game right there.

  A. J. Pierzynski

  Topics in Sports

  Tags in Easily, Right

• You get to the playoffs, you don’t expect to get 8 1/3, nine and nine (innings), not in this situation. It’s unheard of.

  A. J. Pierzynski

  Topics in Sports

  Tags in Expect, Situation

• Typical Brad. Get him through the first inning and he’ll do OK for you.

  A. J. Pierzynski

  Topics in Sports

  Tags in Typical, Innings

• We couldn’t go down 0-2 playing at home. We haven’t had a lot of success on the West Coast, so we’ve got to find a way to win some games.

  A. J. Pierzynski

  Topics in Sports, Success

  Tags in Win