Rattled Quotations

On her first throw, she threw over 140 feet. It was a throw that could have won the whole thing, and then I saw the red flag go up. She scratched on the third throw, and I think that kind of rattled her.

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.

Omar was poised in there, didn't get rattled and made some nice throws. His receivers bailed him out a couple of times. But he moved the club.

(McCormick) never got rattled out there ... I'm not taking anything away from our hitters, but we couldn't make the adjustments, which is what this game is all about.

Luckily I got a step and luckily it rattled down.

Luckily I got a step and luckily it rattled down, My mind changed about three times while it was rolling around the rim.

I get the feeling they like the pressure of having to come back. The just don't get rattled out there.

I don't think it rattled him, but I think it made him think twice about coming in there. (James is) still a great player, he does so many things well, but he did think twice about coming in there.

I enjoyed my time with Grady a lot. He's a class act. Very country. Very easygoing. He's not rattled by much.

(CA) really rattled us with their pressure. They got hot. We thought they would get hot, but not that hot.

He's a full notch behind Vijay. He's not even on the same rung. There's no major that rattles you like the U.S. Open. Last year's Open probably took a month to get over that. It's not like the Masters, where the conditions are generally the same. At the Open, they're probably already rattled going in.

He's a competitor and has great belief in himself. You can tell that on the mound. He's got that look in his eye that he's going to get the hitter out. He has something that you're born with, something you can't teach. He has the heart to be a top-notch Major League pitcher. He expects to win and has a quiet confidence. He doesn't get rattled and has a chance to be a top-of-the-rotation guy.

We mentioned that it looked like he was rattled and that we should get more pucks to the net.

The pack slumbered and only a few watchdogs rattled their chains.

He's got that calmness. You can just tell. He wasn't rattled throughout the whole course of that game. And we got a couple interceptions. He had some bad plays. But he stayed right in there.

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 doesn't get rattled or caught up in the game itself. He just kind of goes with the flow, and patience is one of his strong points. He'll get teed off when he knows he had a pitch he should have hit, or not made a play he should have made, but his focus is very good.

He doesn't have much street left in him; he is one of the nicest and most appreciative people. About the only place he has some of that street and swagger is in his game. And that is a good thing. He doesn't get rattled and relishes every challenge.

I think maybe some games in the past, we lost our focus and let some teams back in. Miami, they kinda forced their way back in, you know. We didn't really get rattled or nervous or anything like that. They just did some good things. Any good team, they're not going to stay down for long. But the thing is, we pulled together and we still won the game.

I thought his comments were fine. At times Porto did outplay us, and we knew they would, but the thing is we rattled them. They had highly gifted players but we rattled them. I asked the players to let Porto know they had been in a game and they did that.

I thought it was in. It rattled out on her.

I was just thinking 'make it,' and when that ball rattled in and out, I thought I was going to cry.

I think the biggest thing was understanding what we are going into. I think not playing in a dome for so many years, it really rattled us. We understood it was going to be loud and you can't do anything about it but play through it.

Our pitching and defense have been terrific. My first year, I think we rattled off about 10 (wins) in a row. But this is quite a streak. Our kids are on a good run. We're playing good baseball.

I think that rattled us a little bit. We weren't as aggressive attacking the rim. We made some adjustments to loosen things up, but the second half turned into a perimeter game and that's not our strength.

I think they were rattled a little bit at the beginning. They were thrown off their game a little bit, but they showed a lot of intensity, intestinal fortitude.

I think we kinda rattled them early, but that's all a part of our game.

I thought, for the most part, we handled the pressure well. There were just a few times when we got rattled and, unfortunately, they (the Wildcats) converted.

I thought we could play with them, I really did. Once they jumped out, they really rattled us.

We had our chances. The ball rattled in and out several times. We had good shots, but we never made the basket we needed.

We can't afford to get rattled and let their quickness affect us. They like to slap at the ball and use their hands a lot on defense, so we've got to take care of and put an emphasis on having ownership of the basketball.

You just can't let it get to you. You got to know that they're trying to rattle you, and they rattled us.

You just have to give DePauw a lot of credit. I don't think we got rattled so much as DePauw shot the ball from the 3-point line better than they have all year.

We never, ever stop working. When we get down to the red zone, it's not easy for people to score. You never see anybody get rattled when things aren't going good, and there was a period of time (against Texas Tech) when things weren't going good. You never hear anybody say anything on the sideline. They understand what they have to do. We regroup, we adjust and we go back out there and play.

We came off a little rusty from the (10-day) break. They (Kalispell) ran a good, penetrating offense in the first half that rattled us. They were getting easy baskets and we weren't shooting the ball very well. We needed to change things up so I went with a little younger lineup with Kelsey Ham in there because she's such a quick little guard on defense. She turned out to be a little spark for us and the rest of the players did little things well, which is what it's going to take.

That would have been good, it would have brought the intensity up a bit. It just rattled out.

We settled down and did a better job of taking care of the ball. Oakmont is a patient team, aggressive on defense. They have a good press. We kind of let ourselves get a little rattled in the first half.

We've saber rattled so much it seems like, just to save face, we're going to have to go in. The feeling seems to be that war is not necessary, but inevitable.

We played (well) the first half because we were patient on offense. We were able to get some nice easy shots by being a little bit patient. I think our poise was rattled there in the third quarter. It was tough to climb back out of that 17-point hole. We made a heck of a run at it. We just couldn't finish it.

We were a little emotional and rattled in the first half. We weren't hitting shots. But, once we calmed down and got settled, we were fine. Also, we picked up our defensive pressure a bit.

We were a little rattled when we lost in the dual meet to them. But we did well in every event today.

We've been able to control the tempo. We've done well on the defensive boards and our defense has been solid. We're a balanced scoring team with consistent offensive output and we haven't gotten rattled or lost our composure or patience even when we're down.

We started putting more pressure on them defensively, started to take care of the ball. I think our nerves rattled us in the first few minutes. Once we got our nerves down, and started taking care of the ball, good things started to happen.

We started the season 5-5 and it would have been easy to fall off. The girls stuck with it, and we rattled off 14 straight wins at one point. Getting back to the conference championship and making the NCAA tournament is pretty important to our players. Hopefully, we will advance and do well.

Virginia Tech got into the passing lanes and really rattled us.

I used to panic and get rattled when I was young, but as I've got older, I've started literally to live day to day. With age, you work out what matters.

The (Winthrop) are a very tough team. They kept their poise. I think we rattled them a little bit at the beginning, but they came back. Those girls inside were tough. I was impressed with how they passed the ball inside.

You can never tell with Brady if he's rattled or not. But I think the pressure made a difference.

We seemed rattled in the early going that things didn't go our way, but I thought we hit some shots in the second half and played better. We're still battling. Our expectations are much higher than just playing hard and competing. As long as I'm here we're going to go into these games with the expectation of winning.

We always talk about closing out people in the fourth quarter. The fourth quarter is a champion?s quarter. We wanted those girls to play like champions. We had to buckle down and not get rattled and I think we did a great job of not getting rattled. We calmed down and they pulled it out.

We've just got to be more disciplined. We play in a tough region, and we have a couple players out with injures and sickness . . . But we didn't get rattled (when Kearns made it's runs). That's an improvement. In previous years, that would have happened and we wouldn't have kept our composure . . . I'm cautiously optimistic.

I've seen 17-year-old kids get rattled over things like this. But our spacing was better this time, and our defense was a lot better. We had pressure basketball and unselfish passing. We had 28 field goals and 22 assists.

I've seen a difference in him and I can't tell you how impressed I was the way he was in Indianapolis. I hate to compare, but he does have one thing in common with Tom Brady. They have a tremendous sense of being calm on the field. It shows. He doesn't get rattled and that's pretty unique for a second-year player like him.

We are still playing with confidence and we aren't being rattled by it.

They're the eighth-ranked team in the state. To us, it was a match where we had nothing to lose. I think we rattled their cage. I don't think we should hang our heads.

Our shots weren't falling during warm-ups. I don't think the girls were very confident shooting the basketball. Their defense really rattled us and as a result everyone was looking to give the ball to someone else.

Sarah's probably our most confident player. She doesn't get rattled in any situation. She's the kind of player who thrives in a pressure situation. She's been great for us in that leadership role.

Even he got a little bit rattled and had a couple of turnovers that are uncharacteristic for him. But, he gets big rebounds, he hits big shots and hit those free throws down the stretch. He's just a tough competitor, and we're a lot better team when he's on the floor.

We had a couple of dropped balls but it was the first away game. The fans were going crazy and, I'm not going to lie, I was rattled a little bit. At first when we tried to stretch it out, we had a couple of drops. Every ball Drew threw, Drew was on point. It was just about catching the ball.

We didn't get rattled by (the dunk) at all. Defense won it for us. The turnovers created a lot of energy, and we play off of energy.

This building has a steel roof, and Frances rattled it for 30 hours. You could hardly hear a thing. Imagine someone beating on pots and pans incessantly. It was nerve-wracking.

The one thing that he has done is pitch consistently. It's not overpowering, knock-your-eyes-out kind of stuff, but it's good stuff and he throws strikes. He doesn't get rattled or become afraid, you kind of know what you're getting.

The biggest asset Sara has is that she thinks the game through. She doesn't just get up and pitch; every pitch has a purpose. To go along with her knowledge of other hitters and what she can and can't do, she doesn't get rattled and she has excellent control.

That is the character of the team that Sloan and Marquis Johnson didn't get into the game until the end and weren't afraid. They paid attention and did what I asked them to do and got the job done. They didn't get rattled by the crowd.

The biggest thing is to learn from your mistakes and not get rattled on this national stage. We've got a lot of people saying we can't do it. So that just gives us an attitude to show we can.

Once again, she did a real good job controlling the game. She's real cool under pressure. She'll throw a ball if she needs to. (She) throws strikes. She doesn't get rattled if somebody hits the ball -- that's part of the game. She just does her thing and stays (in) real good control." ()

Donnie is so smooth and laid-back, and at the same time he plays extremely hard. He gives that vibe to everyone else ... Nobody can get too rattled with him back there.

The kids have a lot of confidence going and playing on the road. It?s something that they take pride in, and they don?t get rattled by the atmosphere. In fact, it seems like the more adverse the atmosphere, the better we play. It?s kind of strange. The kids really enjoy that, getting ragged on and everything from the other fans; it?s kind of something they take some pride in.

The kids played hard this year. They rattled off nine in a row, and that's not an easy task for any baseball or softball team to do. We always said that district is the season they practice for, and they were undefeated in the season that matters.

It seemed like the first inning might have rattled them a bit. We hit the ball well coming out of the gate and did what it took early to put us in a position where we could relax a little bit.

They completely rattled us and pushed us around. We're so used to starting our offense with Dionne that our offense just broke down.

It was just a roller coaster. We didn't really get rattled or get nervous or anything like that. We just pulled together.

I just kept telling them, 'Hey look, you can't keep starting in a hole every game. You can't keep playing catch up all the time. And all of a sudden in the second half, we rattled off those 40 points.

Investors were rattled by this, but there was really no news that justified a drop of this magnitude.

In my younger days in Seattle, I used to get rattled pretty easily; those emotions would work against me. I think over the years, I've learned how to deal with that and have them work for me.

Certain players like to have people having a go at them - it does give you a buzz. As an away team, you know you have got them rattled if the fans go quiet.

He's very calm. He never gets rattled whether he wins 8-2 or loses 8-2.

In the third quarter we came out and they did some trapping that rattled us a little bit.

I pulled up, but I probably should've tried to go to the bucket, with them being in the double bonus. That first one felt like it was going in, but it rattled out.

I rattled a few jars and roared at them at the interval.

They'll let you back into the game, but they've been together. When you have Nash out there on the floor with Marion - especially Nash - those other guys were getting rattled and Nash came back in and hit a big shot. He controlled the offensive end.

They were playing great defense and it kind of rattled us. We weren't staying focused. We weren't staying relaxed.

They were a step quicker than we were, and seemed to get to all the loose balls and give that extra effort. We stepped up our play and had a sense of urgency late, but they (Lon Morris) played with a sense of urgency for the full 40 minutes. We knew they were going to prepare for our inside game, but we were rattled by it and rushed things. They simply played well and made more plays.

Ansel Adams rattled around the Southwest with his battered truck and his view camera, which looked like a giant accordion with a lens attached to it.

The kid did pretty well, ... but he seemed rattled toward the end.

These kids have shown that they really step up in the big games. Hopefully, that carries over into basketball, too. But I do know that we shouldn't be too rattled by the type of crowd and atmosphere that will be there.

For a kid who just got her driver's license, she's tough as nails. She's one of the toughest sophomores I've ever seen. She doesn't get rattled by anything; she loves to pitch and she works hard at it.

The object was to get to (Allen) early and he kind of got rattled a little bit.

Everybody can be gotten to. You saw Tom Brady last week, the best quarterback in the NFL. Then Peyton Manning got rattled also. But it's obviously a great task to get to Ben.

They played hard down the stretch to make it a two point game and gave ourselves a chance to win. We missed shots and then Nash came back in and controlled the last couple minutes. Those other guys were getting rattled and he came back in and controlled the offensive end.

They gave him an error on that? That was a tough play. The ball was going away from him. How we were able to get three runs in that inning was hard to understand for us. But I don't think he was rattled after that play. When you're a closer, you've probably seen worse things that that.

When Alex settles in and doesn't try to do too much he's a good floor leader for us. He settles in, doesn't get excited, doesn't get rattled and is 100 percent unselfish. He's the kind of kid you like having on your team.

We were rattled and a little down at first. As the games have gone by, we have more confidence and are playing better.

We had them in foul trouble in the first half and were able to do what we needed to. They finished first in the conference and we were right there with them in the first half. We got rattled in the second half and Maynard took over.

We missed the PK and that really rattled us. I think we kind of had our way with them in the first half. In the second half they came back and played us even.

We got rattled in the beginning and it took us a while to realize that we could compete.

We got rattled in the Kentucky game. We got rattled in the Arkansas game. We got rattled in the Alabama game. Coach Pearl has been preaching that we can't get rattled. We have to stay aggressive.

We got rattled in there, but the kids came back especially when we got behind in the third period. That was huge. They showed great character. They gave me everything I asked for all year long except for one more goal.

We had to be disciplined, and we weren't that disciplined in the first half. We got kind of rattled and we just started hooking the ball.

We got a couple hits on Eli early. I think that kind of rattled him.