Starter Quotations

There are a lot of people, who want to be writers, who stumble at a blank page. You could imagine an algorithm that could give writers a first draft or a starter kit, so it could enable people to be more prolific in their writing.

I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.

We are proud of Blake Field, ... He became our starter with an hour's notice. He did a great job handling the football.

When you've got as many guys as we have getting significant playing time during the playoffs, it makes you feel like a starter and part of the system. They're counting on you. You don't want to let your teammates down, let the coaches down or let the organization down.

When we were trying to pick a fifth starter back in camp, it was between Saarloos and Etherton, and we weren't quite sure which way we were leaning. So we went to Kendall, and he was adamant about Saarloos. That's what clinched it.

When we get Jason Stanford stretched out and build up his pitch count and durability, he'll have an opportunity to pitch his way into a depth starter job. He'll need two to two-and-a-half months to get back to that level.

What he has to do now is regain some stamina to become a starter again. He has as good a stuff as anyone.

We graduated only one starter in Catherine Flynn , but she was our leading goal scorer last year. I don't think we have one player that is going to score like Catherine did last year, but as a team, I think we will be able to fill that void by having several players increase their offensive production.

We felt like Blake is much better prepared mentally, physically. He's had an excellent summer working out, and it's clear to all of us here that he's our best guy to go out there. So when it's obvious, we've named him the starter. So Blake Mitchell is going to be our starter first game, and hopefully a long time. We'll go from there. Back-ups we don't know yet, we're trying a lot of guys right there. But Blake's earned it and he's our starter.

We're being cautious with Barnett. He's having a little pain in his arm. But Artie (Morales) was a starter early in the season, and we're confident with him in there.

We're seeing it statewide. Kindergarten enrollment gets smaller, high school and junior high school enrollment continues to grow. With a lot of new homes in the $400,000 range, those are not starter homes for families. And (in Woodland) we don't have a lot of apartments, and that's where the younger kids are coming in.

We've got Denver coming up, ... I'm preparing like I'm a starter. That's what you have to do whether you're a starter or a backup.

We've seen it before and we didn't want to quit on an inning. It gives us momentum but the momentum is only as good as your starter taking the mound.

We're just trying to finalize a couple of positions. We're still looking for our fourth and fifth starter and for some setup guys in the bullpen.

We're just trying to build up some endurance in him. If the game is on the line, he's a good guy to bring in. Hopefully, we will be able to use him as a starter later in the year.

We won't have to face somebody as good as John Smoltz, who's been through the wars, is the No. 1 starter on anyone's staff, who's done all the things he's done in this game,

We need a starter to go deep. It's been a rough series for the bullpen, but so far they've been up to the task.

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Lewis was different because he not only was a starter here a year ago, he had been here since the 2000 season. When someone like that walks back into your locker room, they're popular, they're known, they've been a teammate.

Last year was my first year as a full-time starter and I put up almost identical numbers as I did this year. The only difference is that I'm playing on a winning team.

Last year was a little confusing because I wasn't sure if I would be a starter in Triple-A or a reliever in the big leagues. I think I'm more efficient this spring because I'm just starting. I've always been a starter up until last season.

She wanted to be a varsity starter very badly. You could see she had the potential, but whenever she got on the floor, she wanted to prove too much to me.

She was a three-year starter and she had great all-around skills. She'll be tough to replace.

She was just like another starter for us. She gave us energy.

She's been a varsity starter at least part-time since her freshman year. She's a smart player and a real tough competitor. I think she's added a pitch. Now she's got more to work with.

She did a great job. She's a senior, a three-year varsity starter -- we expect that from her.

She is a starter and a sophomore, but acts like an upperclassman on the field. She acts like a leader and is very consistent, which is incredible for her.

Mock is filthy. He could be a front-end starter in the big leagues, a number one or number two guy who can eat up innings. I'm excited about his potential and the chance to work with him.

Megan had been a starter for three years but halfway through this year she's been coming off the bench. Megan gets in there for her defense. We really don't ask her to score. But, tonight, we needed it.

No doubt about it. Drew's a starter in this league. But I think I am, too. We both want to be top performers, and we will be. But when we're on the same team, it doesn't work out so well.

Obviously you want to start, but if I don't start I still have to prepare like I'm a starter because you never know what's going to happen, ... That's something I learned in college. During my junior year I was playing behind Mike Doss now with Indianapolis and Donnie Nickey now with Tennessee so I just had to stay focused and ready.

Of course it's going to be surprising to me; I'm a starter and I feel I should be a starter.

More troublesome is the inability to find affordable starter homes.

Morgan is our starter and he'll stay our starter until someone proves that they're better. He's doing a nice job and he's staying big. Pete is on injured reserve until that knuckle gets better.

My goal is to be a starter that first game. Whether it happens or doesn't happen ... I'm going to keep playing and let my play speak for me and make a case for me to start playing against Miami on Sept. 4.

My favorite of all the sports is football. I wasn't the starter as quarterback, but I ran the other team's offense in practice and it was nice to have all that responsibility on my shoulders. I like being the main guy.

(Neil) is a returning starter who has a lot of speed, covers a lot of ground in the outfield, and has a surprising strong bat. He's deceiving. He's one of the fastest that we have on this team.

Obviously I've played a lot in this league and started a lot of games. But when I came here they made it clear what the situation would be. I understood that Rich would be the starter and I will be the guy that's there if something happens to Rich. That will be my approach.

Obviously Mark's been a starter since 1995 and is confident of his ability to lead a team. But he looks forward to the ability to compete for a starting job in training camp.

Obviously, Gary and I are familiar with Scott from our time in Dallas. Scott defines the type of person we are looking for, a dedicated veteran who has been a starter and knows what it takes to succeed. Scott understands the system that Gary is putting in place and we are extremely pleased to have him on the roster as we move forward.

Right now he knows he's not the starter and he has a long ways to go. But I see a guy willing to work and put in his time and wait for his opportunity. He's working. You have to respect him, as a coach and as a teammate.

Right now, Brad is the starter and I'm the backup, and I need to be a sponge and learn as much as I can from him. For myself, I think this is the best move of my career, to see how Brad does things. He's 38, and he's been in this league and won a Super Bowl. It's a great opportunity to be here.

I would be the first to tell you that if 50 percent of the guys I put on the Super Prep All-American team make it, I would be happy. About one out of every two guys is going to be a disappointment in some way. But what is success, a guy who starts two years, an all-conference player? He might even be a starter and still be a disappointment.

I would have been excited just to play against a No. 3-ranked team like Penn State, but I'm not excited about how I came to be the starter right now. A.J.'s my best friend. We've been here in and out of things together. I'm out there playing for A.J.

If we can get outs in the seventh, eighth and ninth innings, we'll be fine. We're going to score some runs. We've got plenty of starters. But we've got to hold the fort down after the starter goes out.

I did well enough to be a starter from Day One, which is more than anybody expected. It's not that big of an issue. I just need to do whatever I need to do to get back.

I could sense he was a little bit nervous. He had been the starter here for a couple of years. He came in kind of quiet, and we knew that had to change.

I am concerned about our depth as far as some of our positions, ... What (Pickett's injury) does is make us take another offensive starter and have him play another way.

I became a starter this year for stuff like this.

I anticipate the starter going five or six, and Gil going two or three. When he gets through that, we'll look at putting him in the rotation.

Catherine was a part-time starter last season and has a strong hit, ... Hillary has worked really hard on her game and is much improved this season. She has good stickwork and is good in transition.

But David is the starter for sure. He's done a great job to put himself in position to physically be able to play the position. So we know he can get the job done.

Based on the information I have right now, Charlie Batch is the starter by default until I see more.

Chris knows how to play within himself. He's going to make an excellent coach one day. He generally makes good decisions and really knows how to fill his (fifth) starter role.

I had made an agreement when we signed him that if he got a chance to be a starter that I would help to make that happen, and a deal's a deal,

I feel great about it. Corey has been a three-year starter and been a mainstay and head a great year last year. This is just a step for Corey because I feel he will go on to bigger and better things.

If Brian's going to be injured, it's nice that it happened now. Because you're not going to be able to acquire somebody who went to training camp, who's been the starter this season in the NFL, someone you feel is a good fit for our offense after the trade deadline. In some ways, the timing of the injury was beneficial.

If Brian's going to be injured, it's nice that it happened now, ... Because you're not going to be able to acquire somebody who went to training camp, who's been the starter this season in the NFL, someone you feel is a good fit for our offense after the trade deadline. In some ways, the timing of the injury was beneficial.

Gilles Colon had a very good day in terms of kickoff returns but you always wonder if you had your starter (Stokes) there, would he even been a bit better?

I don't think any player worth his salt is content to be a backup, especially someone who has been a starter before. So I'm not going to resign myself to anything. I'm going to try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.

I don't think I'd ever take out a starter who had a one-hitter going.

Giving up four or five runs through five innings with your starter ... that's a lot of runs to give up and expect to win.

If that's where they need me to play to win basketball games, then so be it. I'm still a starter in my own mind. I'm just going to produce and get it done.

He's competing to be a starter right now. He's pitched well. We'd like to have him be a starter. I think he has better command and his changeup and slider are much better.

He's been a four-year starter and averaging a little over 10 points and six rebounds a game for his career. He's never been an all-conference player, but he's certainly a candidate this year.

He has a full season under his belt and he has the support of all his teammates and there's no quarterback controversy. He's the returning starter and a veteran in our offense. He's going to play with more confidence, no question about it.

He did a nice job. He's been my No. 1 starter for four years, but his pitch count got too high. If we make a couple plays, he doesn't make as many pitches.

He did so well, I made him our Game 1 starter in the playoffs. He impressed me enough to do that.

He is a front-line starter and has taken the ball in big games.

He had a guy that beat him out, and to me that's the bottom line. That's all it's about. If you look at our record with him as a starter and you look at our record with Kirk as a starter, to me that speaks for itself.

He makes some poor decisions. When you're trying to be a starter after being a backup, you just can't make mental mistakes. You make decisions that put you in a bind.

This was not so much about his stuff but how well he commanded the strike zone, that he had no discomfort and that he got his pitch count up. The answers were yes, yes and yes. . . . He earned an opportunity to really throw his hat in the ring (for the fifth starter spot).

We're probably not going to name anyone the starter coming out of spring, but I'd say he'll be the likely starter. These other guys we have are so young and just don't have the experience Engram does. You can see it in the way he carries himself on the field and with the way he controls the team when he's on the field.

We took him out of high school hoping he'd develop into a player in two or three years. But within the first year he started to make an impact and, in 2003, he became a starter on special teams and made some big plays.

We feel like he can be a starter in this league, and we don't feel like there's much lost if one our linebackers goes down because of his versatility.

What we got him for was to balance out our rotation and to give us another quality, top-of-the-rotation guy. Pitching is what wins championships. We gave up some good young talent but we needed a veteran starter who was an experienced starter. Who was a top-of-the-rotation guy. Who was used to pitching in big games like this.

He's a competitor who pitches deep into ballgames and has been a consistent starter in the American League for the last few years. His innings show that he's been durable and he definitely adds depth to our rotation.

He's a guy we're real high on. He can be a starter or a closer.

(Good defense) affects you in a lot of ways. It prevents your pitcher from throwing too many pitches in one inning. It gives your bullpen a rest because your starter may be able to go a little deeper into games. Cameron is going to save games with his glove.

He's a legitimate starter in our eyes. Thus far, he's done everything we've asked him to.

He's a kid that's got four pitches for strikes. When you can do that you can be effective. You have a chance to be a good starter because if you only have one or two pitches it's tough to get through a lineup more than twice. But he's a kid who has pretty good command of four pitches.

He's a slow starter and it's been that way most of the season -- he gets better as the match goes on. I don't know what fired him up, but he got a second wind and it was over.

He's a very fast, and a much more physical, complete linebacker now than when he was a starter a couple of years ago.

He's definitely a proven player, but he's not a guaranteed starter for us, so he's got to show that he can make a contribution. But he's still a good player and can do some things that will help us win games. But how it pans out, no one knows.

He's done very, very well. He started last year for the most part and has remained the starter this year. He needs to keep improving, getting better day in and day out and becoming a big, strong, hard, nasty defender.

His stuff has gotten better each time out. What that tells me is his arm is quicker than it has been. Last year at the end and in Spring Training, he wasn't showing the quick arm that I remember seeing. He has done everything we asked him to do and that's really what the conditions were. We need a fifth starter and he's going to be that guy.

His stamina is the best it's ever been. I think it's more consistent. He's not making mental errors and he's just playing hard. Before, James seemed good for about two or three plays, but now I think he knows that he's the starter and he's the guy.

He's a three?year starter on Florida, you have to be good to do that. As a true freshman, he started. He has a good arm. He can elude people and he's pretty good at it.

He's a three-year starter going into his fourth year. That's amazing nowadays, a four-year starter. It just doesn't happen every day. Blake has no starts. None of our quarterbacks have played much at all, so it will be interesting. Hopefully, they'll play like they're capable.

He's a three year starter for us who knows how and when to make crucial tackles throughout the game.

He's a starter on most teams in this league. And when he shoots it like he did tonight, obviously that's a new dimension to his game.

He's been our closer, but we couldn't get to him. So we decided to give him a start... . He's a starter from now on. He doesn't seem to get rattled when there are guys on base.

He's been a two-year starter there and is certainly working on improving his game. We're looking for some depth there and someone who can challenge him.

He's been a three-year starter on both sides of the ball. As a running back and a linebacker, our opponents always had to know where he was.

He's been a starter since his freshman year. He brought a lot of experience.

He's been a starter most of his career, but in Chicago, because of the depth in their rotation, he pitched out of the bullpen. He has looked very good in Spring Training. He is in the mix, along with a few other guys, but he continues to impress us.

He's been a starter for us for the last two years. He's been a high scorer on the outside and is good at hitting three-pointers.

He's been a starter for a long time and he's a guy who's been very productive with 1,000-yard rushing seasons,

He's done a good job. He has minimized his mental mistakes. He's become a starter and he has played fast in the games and made some plays. We (will) keep working with him in hopes that he'll be able to execute on a consistent basis and continue to eliminate those mental errors that can get him in trouble.

Hudson is the Opening Day starter of the future, and as long as he's here, he's going to continue being the Opening Day starter.