John Cole Quotations

We're going to try and match up as best we can. But we're going to have to pitch a bit differently than we normally do.

We're going to have to really execute defensively and make the routine plays to get outs. We're just trying to put our guys in the right position. Right now we've had a lot of changes in the infield, and now with injuries we have even more changes.

We're going to have our hands full staying out of big-run innings.

If we ever want to get to the starswe can't do that with chemistry.

I don't care what the score is. He pitched very well. He did exactly what we needed him to do.

Basically once we combined it was like one big family.

I firmly believe that the church is the people, not bricks and mortar,

John fulfills a great need, not only in the church, but in the community. He relates excellently with kids and kids respond to him. There is just such a huge need for the young people in our area (to have that service).

I think we were lucky, because there were some big trees down on structures, including a mobile home where an elderly lady was inside.

I think talking with the kids in practice, this is probably more of a rivalry than Herkimer. We're closer to Frankfort than Herkimer and the kids have a lot of friends that go to school and live in Frankfort.

Our workload will double and possibly triple, ... And that means fees are going up.

Some of our weekend guys should be rested enough to throw, so we'll have a little bit more depth.

We'll come to work tomorrow, keep working at it, stay positive, keep fighting, and we're going to get this thing turned around.

We do well when the games are close. The problem is, when we get behind too early and too big, we can't dig ourselves out of it. We want to keep it within striking distance and hopefully jump out to a lead.

We needed to stretch him. We needed to save the weekend guys.

We were just leaving balls right in the middle of the plate, up, and you just can't do that with good hitters.

We didn't have a lot of time to prepare for them. Mattingly just played one-on-one with us.

We pitched better today, but it wasn't enough. There was some improvement, but we still have a ways to go on the mound.

We can't put all three phases of the game together. There isn't one phase to blame necessarily.

Within the team, they are looking around for a leader. We need someone to stand up and take charge, someone that we can attach ourselves to.

We want to get the game to Doug Brown. He's been our most consistent pitcher, and we think we have a weapon at the end of the game. So if we can keep the game close and get it to him, then we feel pretty good about it.

We just don't get a stop. Every time we get runs, we give them back. That's draining on the offense, and that takes its toll. We can't stop people, and that has killed us this year.

We knew catching was going to be thin this year. He has really surpassed our expectations.

We lost way too many balls off the zone. We have a long way to go to get better.

We think it's one of the best and more important projects that the Center for Book sponsors. For most of these kids, it's unforgettable.

We're very limited on the mound right now. And we're trying to piece it all together.

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I used to run a lot of the back roads. Since it became 65, you can make a little better time,

Right now, there's not enough signal in the noise to be convinced that there's anything there. One has to be strongly skeptical of all these kind of things. But you have got to be open-minded too. Maybe somebody will find something. But if they do, it has got to be solid.

Private equity firms know you can't wring every last cent out of a business if you want a successful exit - you have to leave some opportunities on the table, some potential to grow.

Our failure to turn double plays is starting to haunt us.

No second-guessing -- I'd do it again tomorrow. We just didn't execute the way we wanted to with that pitch.

That was a big statement by our team.

They were definitely reeling from that first game.

They're way better than their record. They'll be as good as anybody offensively in the league.

Abate threw his best game all year. He did a super job keeping the other team off balance.

It was good last year, and it should be as good or even better this year. I don't think we have any cold to drive them out. There should be birds around.

It really comes down to pitching and defense. We have to keep the ball down, and when they hit it, we have to catch it. We haven't done that, and that's why we're struggling.

It's the weather that's going to keep people away.

It's an impact and a money investment, ... If we don't address this now, what other domino effect will occur?

It's a very promising group of EMT candidates here.

Consumers don't like high prices, ... That's what they notice at the pump and out of their pocketbook.

It's just absolutely crucial for ground-nesting wildlife and small game.

It's amazing when you think about how poorly we've played.

It'll be about 15 of us that will be on the route the whole way and we'll be joined each day by new folks from each community,

It will increase their costs and require credit counseling and education when it's too late to do any good, ... It will also force many into Chapter 13 when they can't afford it.

They've struggled here lately. And when you're struggling, you've got to change some attitudes and get them into more of a winning mindset.

The census data for the most part confirms that.

I'm really proud of the way we're starting out strong.

I knew it was coming up, but I didn't know it would be the day before my birthday.

Instead of giving up, we came back. That was the right direction for us. The kids are starting to learn how to fight.

As far as I am concerned, collectively, the right wing of the blogosphere is the 'boy who called traitor.' Not a week goes by when I hear that so and so should be ostracized because they are a treasonous rat, they are a commie symp, whatever.

I really don't understand how bipartisanship is ever going to work when one of the parties is insane. Imagine trying to negotiate an agreement on dinner plans with your date, and you suggest Italian and she states her preference would be a meal of tire rims and anthrax. If you can figure out a way to split the difference there and find a meal you will both enjoy, you can probably figure out how bipartisanship is going to work the next few years.

For an omnipotent and omniscient being, God has made some really lousy earthly staffing decisions.

We need to invade Michigan and rebuild the state from the ground up. We will be greeted as liberators, we have clear supply lines, and we can easily rebuild the auto industry with the kind of money we spend on other countries we invade. Hell, our new Secretary of State, Hillary of Clinton, spent the better part of the past year fighting for the rights of average folks from Michigan, so think of the good will we have with the public. This is very doable. Just tell Congress we will give KBR no-bid contracts to fix Detroit.

Ann Coulter is, at this point, a known quantity (especially after the raghead remarks last year), and she delivered what they knew she would deliver. Where were the complaints in advance of her appearance? There were none that I am aware of, and this is just damage control. An open letter isn't going to solve the real problem with the conservative movement. And hell, the authors can't even write this letter without sniping at liberal websites. Ann Coulter is not the problem - she is a symptom of the problem.

The most depressing thing about blogging is watching so-called 'citizen journalists' turn in to little more than easily offended partisan hacks. Any remark that is slightly less than completely and totally scripted and can give the slightest opportunity to offend some delicate soul somewhere is used to set off a series of partisan screeches and cries of outrage that would make the Church Lady jealous.

Speaking as someone who bought the party line for far too long, you would be amazed what you can believe if you keep convincing yourself the press, the libs, the universities - hell, everyone but a few on the religious fringe and big business - are out to get you. I was lucky - I started to snap out of this a couple of years ago and hopefully will now apply to both major parties the same skepticism and cynicism I had in the past reserved for Democrats.

We are going to lose the war on terror because all of our agents are tied up investigating the GOP.

It never gets old, being told you are a traitor and in league with the terrorists because you disagree with current administration policy.

The best leaks always take place in the urinal.

You don't have to go more than two hours and you can see a lot of good baseball in the Philadelphia area. I think it's a tremendous advantage to go within two hours and put a net around it.

You want to finish the trip off on a good note, especially since we had such a rough start. Hopefully now they are starting to believe in some of the things we are trying to get across to them in practice.

The first few years after it was planted they may have had a lot of pheasants or quail on it, and now eight or nine years later, they are not seeing as many birds as they had seen previously. Some of it hasn't been managed well over the years.