Scoreboard Quotations | Page 2

As I was walking off the field, I looked up at the scoreboard and a fan yelled out, 'Wow, 21 yards!' And I looked and saw we only had 21 yards rushing. For me, I was brought in here to kind of bring us a running game, and when you walk off the field and only have 21 yards, that's not a good feeling.

It was 11-0, then I looked at the scoreboard and then it was (11-10), and that's us this year. But we stayed patient, having 10 seniors helped that. They know what it takes to win.

It's tough, going without guys like that in your lineup. But we battled. ... The bottom line, and what I told our team was, you look up at the scoreboard and there's five runs (Oklahoma) shouldn't have had.

It's probably one of the best feelings in the world. Especially when there's 16,000 or 17,000 people there screaming the whole game, saying 'You suck,' and knowing that scoreboard says you win.

It's really nice to be the one on the side of the scoreboard with the runs on it. We played together as a team really well.

That scoreboard just doesn't indicate how well Brian played. He made nice stops, but sometimes there was just nothing he could do.

It's disappointing to have a big goose egg on the scoreboard at the end of the game. You expect to come in and win this game, but it is what it is. ... Their defense is a good bunch of players, and they took it to us. The passing game is a huge part of why the offense couldn't succeed, and it hurt us.

It went well. It was a good follow up to what we did in Phoenix. It's nice to be near the top of the scoreboard at the end of each day. I think we kind of got a little bit lost during the mid-part of the day with the compound of tires we had here. We didn't get much out of it in the last few runs. For a team test and everybody here, we got what we need to get done. Hopefully, we'll move up a qualifying spot for the St. Petersburg street race.

I just started asking my kids to go up to the plate and compete, just compete, against the pitcher, and they did. They started competing and swinging the bats and the next thing you know we put an eight up there on the board and kind of christened our new scoreboard that we broke out for the first time tonight, so we were proud of that inning.

I look at the scoreboard and it says this guy (Thome) hit more home runs against the White Sox than anybody. He's got 18 in this ballpark. Hopefully, he'll hit another 60. I know if this kid stays healthy, he's going to do some damage in Chicago.

I look at the scoreboard (at the start of the game), and it's 0-0. I look at their bench, and they've got 19 guys; our bench has 19 guys. Who wants it more? They had lost two games in a row, 5-0 and 5-0 (actually, 5-3 and 5-0). They wanted it a little more than we did. That's what bothers me.

In the past, it was like, three-and-out and we'd be back on the field. Now, they're scoring at will, and we're back on the field. So we're kind of playing the same role, except the scoreboard keeps lighting up for us and we're getting the momentum. And momentum is big in college football.

I really think our kids stopped believing, and that's really frustrating for me. When they get down by 15 points, we look at the scoreboard and feel sorry for ourselves.

I just wanted to beat him so bad. I never looked at the scoreboard. I was told not to look at the scoreboard and just go out and wrestle. I thought I was up. ... Still I won a silver medal but now I'll always think of what might have been.

I looked at the scoreboard and saw we were only up by two points. I said, 'Uh oh, I better do something.' I tried to push the ball and be more aggressive.

I looked at the scoreboard at the end of the game. We weren't going to win, 1-0. They flat-out outplayed us, and you have to give all the credit to Vazquez for holding down this offense.

Honestly, when you look up at the scoreboard and see your name up there, it's like, 'Whoa, I only have a couple weeks left,' and that's tough.

I put it all to music and put it on the scoreboard during batting practice.

I didn't know what the heck he was doing. I'd never seen that before. They celebrated like it was six more points, or something. I didn't know what it was until I read the scoreboard to see how many points he got for it.

They were trying to give them some offensive points. Our defensive is always going to stop them three-and-out, and if the fans look up at the scoreboard they can't see that the offense didn't put up any points?

It's hard to beat (even) a crummy team with the scoreboard like it was.

After not scoring (Wednesday) night and responding like that, it gives us a little confidence before this long road trip. I'd like to see us take the focus off scoreboard watching and standings watching. We've got to get our game going.

Anybody can go down on any night. That's why you lace them up, and that's why you play. That's why God invented the scoreboard to keep score. So, who knows?

Any win is important nowadays. Obviously, Philly has been playing well and their score was posted on the scoreboard before we started. They lost and we knew we had a golden opportunity to gain a game. We went out and did it. So it's two more off the magic number, whatever it is. It's probably 100. But nonetheless, it's another day in the books and we gained a game.

The game was a lot closer than the scoreboard shows.

The clubhouse lost some of its siding. On the soccer field, we had damage to the scoreboard and both of the benches were broken.

The kid's amazing. I mean, he seems to be on the scoreboard every night with some unbelievable shots. He's got one of the best shots that I've ever seen in the game, and it's just one of the quickest releases.

You can't really give this team any second chances. They're a great team - especially from the outside. They hit some threes and pretty soon you look at the scoreboard and you're down nine. It's hard to come back from that.

You can't really look at the rest of the field. You have to play the golf course and play your score and try and put something decent on the scoreboard and hope that it is good enough.

These girls are strong and don't let being down on the scoreboard affect them. They know their job and their job is to win. They also know softball is a seven-inning game.

It just hurts being here three years in a row. They came up short on the scoreboard, but they're winners in my book, and especially the seniors. Just because we weren't winners on the scoreboard doesn't mean we aren't winners in the long run.

I told the guys that I wouldn't be looking at the scoreboard tonight. I was more interested in measuring how hard and how smart we played.

It seems like we beat ourselves on the road. Whether it's due to turnovers or missing free throws, we just beat ourselves. We always have a strong game plan going in, but sometimes we'll have an inconsistent half and look up at the scoreboard after 20 minutes and realize that we've dug ourselves a big hole and now we have to get out of it. Hopefully, as we continue through the season we will learn from our mistakes and start coming around.

It's encouraging because we don't have to do any scoreboard watching at all. It's all in our hands.

Too long, way too long, ... In the first two games, it feels like we've been playing two hours and I look up at the scoreboard and there's four minutes left in the first quarter.

We got nervous. We started to watch the scoreboard and stopped doing what we had been doing all game.

It wasn't one person today, it was the whole team. I thought we had it (the win in teams' first meeting on March 16), but we lost 1-0. I knew this team (Carson) could hit. The scoreboard looked like it was a football game.

This was a very big game for us. We don't want to scoreboard watch too much, but we knew the Giants had won (in Washington). Jake is our staff ace, and he is our stopper. When he takes the mound, we expect to win baseball games.

This was the best we've played this season, all three games. We played really well, even the Nacogdoches game (a 1-0 loss). We lost on the scoreboard in that game, not on the field.

We just wanted to keep things simple and keep them off the scoreboard as best we could, and we did it pretty well.

We just played real lethargic the whole first half. They got a good chewing at halftime and came out and went on a huge run. ... We went out in the third quarter and just lit it up on the scoreboard and played real hard defense.

This is the kind of thing we need to do. I don't have a big scoreboard in my office, depicting which groups had taken cuts. I think you can say the whole family is participating in the effort to turn GM around.

They played with more energy. They made aggressive plays in the field and the scoreboard indicated that tonight.

I don't think guys are looking at the scoreboard this early. We have the day off to clear our minds and get ready for Tuesday.

He really is a selfless player. He does things that don't show up on the scoreboard sometimes, but coaches appreciate more than sometimes fans do. The fullback in our offense is a blocker. We are trying to get him in more into receiving.

If on-base percentage is so important, then why don't they put it up on the scoreboard?

The last two weeks, ... is like water torture. You play, and you look at the scoreboard and try to figure out where it all falls. Time just seems to crawl.

And at the end of that game, when we stood there and watched the snow come down and you looked up there at that scoreboard and the Falcons are on top, I mean our players were in awe. They stood there and took their helmets off and soaked it all up. It was so special. It was just the culmination of an incredible season, both on and off the field, and it was a gift to our players and a gift to our fans. I was just proud to be part of it.