There was some hype [when Kim first came to the U.S.] and she showed us the reason for the hype. That's a live fastball. He topped out at 95, he probably threw a dozen or so at 93 and he had a sharp slider. I think we'll have to find some other opportunities that present themselves and see how it works.
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Related He threw the ball well. He has a live fastball and slider. ERIC WEDGE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The best thing about Monte is he came in with a little bit of hype - if you can have hype at a young... JEFF LAING He threw the ball well. He was able to use all his pitches, his slider, his changeup and his fastbal... BILL EVERS I thought he was strong. He came out throwing a good fastball to both sides of the plate. His curves... KURT SUZUKI He hits his spots all game. He kept us off-balance because he had a good 12-6 curveball and a slider... MATT BOWMAN He wasn't as sharp as his first game, but he still had a good fastball. He struggled with the breaki... CHARLIE PULEO On the last at-bat, he threw quite a bit of changeups and a good slider that fell off. On the 3-2 co... BRAD HAWPE I know him, ... He throws a fastball away and then he comes in with a slider. I was ready for a slid... RAMON CASTRO Dusty is a little longer off the tee. He's a little bigger than last year. Drew came out and fired l... TOM ROMANCE He had a hard slider and was working in and out with his fastball. Give him credit: He hit his spots... HERMAN DEMMINK He was one of the toughest pitchers we faced all year. He had heat and he threw a slider. The first ... JACK STURGEON He threw a first-pitch fastball. I was looking for it, just wanted to start us off on a rally. COREY ROSS He practiced on his kicking and as you can see he got better at it. When he first came he barely kne... BRIAN ROLLE Hartmann was great again. His slider and changeup were working for him tonight and he had some great... BUTCH HOBSON He had some really sharp pitches. He was just a little bit up on occasion. He made some really nice ... JOE MADDON He threw the ball well and freely, but he was up with his pitches. He hung a slider. That's going to... FRANK ROBINSON Keith threw the ball really well, also. He threw some really good changeups. And his location of his... JASON VARITEK I think he did a great job for us. He threw a lot of strikes and threw out of some key situations. H... BOB BRUGLIO He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL I thought Brian threw very well. He was off of his composure a little bit in the second inning when ... JASON BRANDT A scout told me that he could have pitched in the big leagues that night, and he was only 17. But I ... DINO EBEL He showed me some guts tonight. They kinda made us work for this win and my horse responded when I a... WALLY HENNESSEY He threw very well, much better than I expected. He had good velocity, his slider was tight and he w... BRAD ARNSBERG I e-mailed a picture of it to a friend of mine, Keith Belford, who works for Boone and Crockett, and... JEFF HUGHES I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart.... P.C. CAST After my first two at bats, I had to make a little adjustment. He was throwing me nasty cutters and ... DAMIAN MILLER Montana and I had a chemistry that was unbelievable. When I first came into the league he told me I ... JERRY RICE He threw a lot of pitches but made some pitches when he needed to. It was very fortunate that he mad... BILL EVERS The first time I held him, he was in a Christmas stocking. Brad's an angel. He came at Christmas and... BRIAN ROWE He presented a fair evaluation of what they were doing and didn't hype the story at all. JOHN DUNNING I was very pleased. I'm sure Eric feels good about what he did. He had a little extra on his fastbal... WAYNE KRIVSKY He was in the bullpen for them earlier in the year, and I think that was only his seventh start. Lef... DAVE JOPPIE [Vick] was just in rhythm. He threw the ball really well. His fastball was working, and he just thre... JEFF GREGORY I think some people have a rare ability to focus. As a player, Earl Thomas has it. When he was at pr... DAN QUINN We found out he will fight when it comes down to the finish. Today he had to dig down a little and h... BILL MOTT 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa... JAMES C. DOBSON [So does Edwards want to live at the Naval Observatory?] If asked, I am sure he would say yes, ... t... JOHN EDWARDS I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I... GARTH BROOKS The kid at times showed flashes of brilliance. He stood in there and threw some passes, put them on ... AL BORGES He has a live arm, a real good fastball, cutter and slider, and can pitch in the back of the bullpen... CHARLIE MANUEL This is a guy who studies the game and works at his trade. He's all about winning. When we talked, t... CHUCK BRESNAHAN Kenneth didn't have a lot of numbers offensively, but his presence on the boards was felt out there ... DAVE NEWTON He threw the pass without looking and I figured he was going to throw it. I timed it pretty well and... DEVIN HARRIS He is there for a reason. He is going to make some throws and he has some athletes out there who can... EVAN BENJAMIN Erik ran the offense very well and he threw the ball well, so I am, pleased to see we have a passing... BEN MARSH You can over-hype a movie, but I don't think you can over-hype Harry Potter. I think this movie is s... PAUL DEGARABEDIAN That's a real good start. He threw me the fastball and I just tried to get the head of the bat out a... BRANDON PHILLIPS That was the first time there was this incredible media hype around a murder. Was it murder? Was it ... FRANCESCA ZAMBELLO He could have tried to do more, ... They never showed up. Nobody came or called. . . . He could have... CHRISTINE THOMPSON I think the biggest reason [Poole] slipped was because of the poor workouts, ... He didn't workout a... RICK SPIELMAN He has a broken wrist, broken pelvis, broken tailbone. ... It was extremely serious and he is lucky ... CHRIS WELLS He had gone through so much, ... When he made that decision, it was the first time he didn't look at... GLENN DAVIS Kline pitched well. He threw the ball over the plate and only walked two batters. I haven't checked ... BOB THOMAS It was crucial for us that he step up. He struggled some late last week against Cincinnati (a 28-26 ... JEFF GENYK The accused is wanted by the Bihar Police in more than a dozen cases and he was arrested when he cam... AJAY KUMAR We read some of (Fox's) writings and sang a hymn that he had changed some of the words to a little b... ALAN SLATER I think Sam was a bit awe-struck at the start of the game, but he settled down well. He settled down... LARRY USHER [Shields had walked Gary Sheffield on four pitches and Hideki Matsui on a 3-2 pitch to load the base... ROBINSON CANO I think from a penalty standpoint, he had more penalties than he's ever had and that's something he ... JOE PHILBIN Geoff works hard, looks very sharp and he has scored some important goals for us, BRYAN ROBSON It ain't even close, and if he doesn't, it goes to show you that other people around the league have... BRIAN BUTTERFIELD He had a heck of game. He's the first kid I've told I was going to take out for not shooting. Today ... GARY CASTINE Sometimes my pitching coach (Gary Hines) and myself are on different pages. He was a pitcher, so he ... STACY GEMEINHARDT Drew had a big day. He did a good job playing first base for us and made some things happen at the p... VAN ARNOLD What people say, it shouldn't matter. They're going to hype whoever they're going to hype - some des... ERIC SNOW He was pretty impressive. He had a good fastball and curveball the first four innings. Then he found... BOB SCHAEFER I've been telling him for a couple years that I would like to see him spread his stance out. He trie... TERRY PENDLETON You know the amazing thing? I love Henry Aaron . I think he's a wonderful guy and a great credit for... BABE RUTH We showed he is not just a deep-route runner, that he can run the intermediate routes, too. That was... MUHSIN MUHAMMAD Bedard did a nice job of getting out of some jams after we had some guys in scoring positions. He th... MIKE SCIOSCIA He spotted his fastball really well. The other part was that we were anxious, and we rolled over som... LANDON POWELL Randy immediately came off the mound and had some choice words to say. I told him to knock it off an... FIELDIN CULBRETH The park was the heart of the city. He had come to the city – and with a knowing in his blood – ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR He's probably the only quarterback in the country that can make a throw like that. I wasn't surprise... EDDIE ROYAL it was the first game of the qualifying for us and well we can take a lot from it , like I was talki... JAMIE CARRAGHER The Doktor was an old man. When he was a kid, his Dad bought him a chemistry set. He never played wi... CHRISTINA ENGELA They had stopped now and he gave a glance up at the sky, through the trees, as though to see how muc... KATHLEEN WINSOR He really looked sharp. He threw strikes like he always does and had a great pace to the game. JACK LEGGETT He's in a battle with everybody and the inventory we have. Geoff made some big strides. He pitched d... RICH DUBEE Santana really showed the afterburners. I was out there, and I was shocked at how fast he was runnin... JAMES THRASH Maybe the long inning bothered him, maybe he got tired. But no excuses, when you're up 20 runs, you ... DARRELL BUTLER Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people wil... WAYNE NEWTON He showed me his slider was his command pitch. I told him, 'You get behind in the count, throw it an... BOB APODACA [His opponents have recognized his potential from first-hand experience.] He was pretty impressive, ... BOB SCHAEFER He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out of dirt and ... JACK HANDY Jared did a tremendous job for us today. We feel good about our first five or six (pitchers). It's t... GREG MCVEY It really doesn't matter to me. He could be up there and he'll scream something to me and I'll liste... JEFF JORDAN He was only supposed to go two innings, but the way he threw, we stretched him out to three. He had ... MIKE HARGROVE He threw a fastball and I got lucky. I think he hit my bat rather than me hitting the pitch. ERIC MUNSON I am glad that he came and showed that he cared. We were treated so bad in the Superdome, it wasn't ... DENISE BROWN He put some balls right where they had to be. He was in control and worked the clock down at the end... FRANK BEAMER He was collapsing his backside a little. It's something he has had to deal with before, and he threw... RICH DUBEE He started at point guard for us at the beginning of the year and this is really the first tournamen... BLAIR SHIER He's been outstanding since he's been here. He's focused. He came out tonight, located his fastball ... DANNY ARDOIN He threw the ball fine. We were swinging at some bad pitches and watched some good ones go bye. That... RICK CALLOWAY We had always heard he was fast, and he came out and showed it. MARC HILL When he got fired, of course he was shocked. I don't think he was ever given a reason for it. They p... JACK FERGUSON Everybody from the outside looking at (the Raiders) thought it was a bunch of loony bins over there.... JOE GREENE He needs to carry on the way he is at the moment and he probably feels he has to do well for a few m... ANDY COLE
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That kind of stuff, the notoriety, the pomp and circumstance, I think he's aware of it, but he doesn... CLINT HURDLE He played short catch yesterday and long toss today. We'll try to get him up on a slope and throw to... CLINT HURDLE He'll take infield [on Wednesday] and if he still feels good after that, he'll go ahead and catch a ... CLINT HURDLE I still envision that duck swimming on the pond, CLINT HURDLE The faces became very familiar at times. CLINT HURDLE He made them hit the ball on the ground with regularity. He made some good pitches. CLINT HURDLE The second year is when you expect a full recovery. CLINT HURDLE We're not looking to fiddle around too much, but they both have qualities that we can take advantage... CLINT HURDLE Spinning out of his delivery. Most of the times when he misses, it's (to his) arm side. CLINT HURDLE We've got different plans for Bonds. We're only going to pitch to him in innings that end in vowels. CLINT HURDLE I think we've talked about it all -- his humility, his work ethic. He has a unique passion for the g... CLINT HURDLE You have to like what you see. His humility. His work ethic. His passion for the game. . . . The bea... CLINT HURDLE He has hit everywhere he has ever been, so why shouldn't he hit here . . . . He is just a real good ... CLINT HURDLE We're starting to make some marks in the right direction on the road. The layout of the land behind ... CLINT HURDLE He's had a nice (hitting) streak. Has he been hotter? Yes, CLINT HURDLE That's not the way it is. I think it takes some pressure off of him. And it shows those guys what th... CLINT HURDLE It is something we have dealt with since Day 1. You can't recreate that environment. It's just the a... CLINT HURDLE Things we have talked about for three months, he has been able to put into play. He has had a challe... CLINT HURDLE It will be a good challenge for us. CLINT HURDLE We had our chances, but didn't come through. Now it's time to focus on the Reds. CLINT HURDLE He came in and helped Band-Aid things together and put himself in a good position for what might hap... CLINT HURDLE He painted himself in a corner and fought his way out. That showed some pitch ability. One, some for... CLINT HURDLE I think the jury is still out on his bat. We'll work more with him and maybe see if there's a little... CLINT HURDLE We're not going to accept being OK. CLINT HURDLE He's not going to be invited back to be a part of the starting rotation. We have interest in bringin... CLINT HURDLE Kim was very efficient with his pitches. He's so confident right now. CLINT HURDLE He pitched without the fastball we've seen previous to this, CLINT HURDLE We got enough mileage out of our long ball tonight before the marine layer hit. That's the latest I'... CLINT HURDLE Those kind of games are signature games. You're lucky if you have one of them in your career. CLINT HURDLE I had a script but didn't need it. There's no chance for this to work unless his head and heart are ... CLINT HURDLE If you watch the game, you know why. He's the best defensive catcher we have had here. Defensively, ... CLINT HURDLE You don't want to say it, ... but you're thinking, 'What if it's not healthy?' You're still going to... CLINT HURDLE If he's made a better play in his life in a baseball uniform, I'd like him to tell us about it. CLINT HURDLE That was the result of a lot of work the last three weeks, in which (Francis) analyzed what had been... CLINT HURDLE These are opportunities for growth. Everybody made a statement tonight that took the ball. CLINT HURDLE Offensively, he is finding his niche. I think he is well aware there is probably more there. Most of... CLINT HURDLE He's got skills, but I told him they weren't playing out. And if the skills he has don't play out he... CLINT HURDLE What would you do if you were manager, and you brought a man into the office and you challenged him ... CLINT HURDLE In Philadelphia, they said three-quarters of the world is covered by water and the other quarter is ... CLINT HURDLE I didn't put a lot of stock into the [scouting] reports, other than the fact they said he was a good... CLINT HURDLE What's unfortunate is the baggage the new players are carrying around. Of course, we acquire our sha... CLINT HURDLE We have always been big on guys on the bench being versatile. CLINT HURDLE It was kind of an oxymoron, me passing him in my Mitsubishi Montero. That used to tickle me. CLINT HURDLE I've got an accountability and responsibility to do whatever I can to help this team win a ballgame, CLINT HURDLE Those guys (the middle relief) have some good numbers on the back of their bubble gum cards. CLINT HURDLE If he throws 100 pitches, he's got to pitch five innings. CLINT HURDLE After he gave up that homer in the sixth, I think he had a little talk with himself. He just put the... CLINT HURDLE If he stays the course with it, obviously he'd be thrown into the mix. But again, time will tell. Le... CLINT HURDLE He is as good as any catcher I played with or had on my team. He has top-shelf skills defensively. CLINT HURDLE We were up there hacking like chefs at Benihana's the first three innings. CLINT HURDLE We've seen this guy before in a Pirate uniform. He's no-nonsense. He comes after people. He's not af... CLINT HURDLE Like a hot knife through butter. CLINT HURDLE Just giving him a rest, right in the middle of spring training. We just want to slow him down a litt... CLINT HURDLE His humility, his work ethic and he has a unique passion for the game. And he's going to be what, 21... CLINT HURDLE We're not looking to bring a large number of people up, and try to pinch-hit and then pinch-run, and... CLINT HURDLE We can definitely get used to (having Kim around), because while he's had his trials and tribulation... CLINT HURDLE That was vintage Coors Field. Last bucket wins. CLINT HURDLE It would be like guys talking about cars. Rebuilding a carburetor is nothing for them. For me, that'... CLINT HURDLE I think we'd like to see his ceiling or find his niche, CLINT HURDLE It's not free. He is going to invest in his future. It's a good plan. CLINT HURDLE I thought he handled a couple of challenges very well. I thought his first 10 pitches were up a bit,... CLINT HURDLE I think it was as important for the group to win without Todd in the lineup as it was for Todd to se... CLINT HURDLE We couldn't buy a hit when we needed one. We went three games where we got the hit when we needed it... CLINT HURDLE As a player, I was a quick-fix type guy, ... I wanted it now. The society we live in wants everythin... CLINT HURDLE We stuck him in there when we ran out of other options last year. He settled into that role real wel... CLINT HURDLE Until we have somebody ready to replace him, we'll be patient. We're not looking for a replacement, ... 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CLINT EASTWOOD I read every book there was on jazz, about the original players - King Oliver, Buddy Bolden and all ... CLINT EASTWOOD We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has. CLINT EASTWOOD I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Inv... CLINT EASTWOOD Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match. CLINT EASTWOOD I don't like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four y... CLINT EASTWOOD If you're really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, 'Hey;' you jus... CLINT EASTWOOD Comedy isn't necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos... CLINT EASTWOOD I've always felt that if I examine myself too much, I'll find out what I know and don't ... CLINT EASTWOOD It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's ... CLINT EASTWOOD The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice. CLINT EASTWOOD I've always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It's the most heinous crime, and... CLINT EASTWOOD The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of... CLINT EASTWOOD The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals. CLINT EASTWOOD I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they w... CLINT EASTWOOD I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It was only a couple of years after ... CLINT EASTWOOD What you put into life is what you get out of it. CLINT EASTWOOD I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If... CLINT EASTWOOD If you think it's going to rain, it will. CLINT EASTWOOD There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the... CLINT EASTWOOD There's so much I should say, so many things I should tell him, but in the end I tell him nothing. CLINT CATALYST Go ahead, make my day. CLINT EASTWOOD Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands. CLINT EASTWOOD I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you thi... CLINT EASTWOOD You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk? CLINT EASTWOOD I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. CLINT EASTWOOD There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married aga... CLINT EASTWOOD I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama. CLINT EASTWOOD Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital puni... CLINT EASTWOOD My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War. 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CLINT EASTWOOD There are certain age limits on police officers. They'd have retired me out at 65. CLINT EASTWOOD I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there. CLINT EASTWOOD Let's put it this way: there wouldn't be much point in me attending a high-school reunion no... CLINT EASTWOOD God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don't have to be Einstein, but Einste... CLINT EASTWOOD My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughes... CLINT EASTWOOD The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some poin... CLINT EASTWOOD In the Bay Area, there was a resurgence of Dixieland jazz in the '40s - there was the Frisco Jaz... CLINT EASTWOOD There is a lot of stuff now that is in bad taste, and I don't see the necessity for it all. We d... CLINT WALKER Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you're the mayor. The bad... CLINT EASTWOOD People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the ... CLINT EASTWOOD The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach. CLINT EASTWOOD Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both fi... CLINT EASTWOOD I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prej... CLINT EASTWOOD When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and se... CLINT EASTWOOD Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, 'Clint, ... CLINT EASTWOOD I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don't have a toy, they'll pick... CLINT EASTWOOD You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, an... CLINT EASTWOOD I was drafted during the Korean War. CLINT EASTWOOD 'Unforgiven' is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, 'Th... CLINT EASTWOOD Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove - disapprove of their point of view. CLINT EASTWOOD I'm not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it's almost like we're living in a reality show. E... CLINT EASTWOOD Fate pulls you in different directions. CLINT EASTWOOD Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body beh... CLINT EASTWOOD It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's live... CLINT EASTWOOD Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both fi... CLINT EASTWOOD Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood. CLINT EASTWOOD I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him. CLINT EASTWOOD The other thing it does is allow him to keep the focus on Social Security in the waning days of this... CLINT STRETCH I mean, it takes a large entourage to put on a tour. You can't have 'em sittin' around. CLINT BLACK There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool... CLINT EASTWOOD The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the... CLINT EASTWOOD When I was growing up, I wasn't an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very a... CLINT EASTWOOD I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important informat... CLINT BLACK I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important informat... CLINT BLACK My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending mo... CLINT EASTWOOD I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less governmen... CLINT EASTWOOD Somebody had fired a shot at the President, and I had to get myself between the shooter and the Pres... CLINT HILL I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanist... CLINT EASTWOOD I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. CLINT EASTWOOD I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captu... CLINT BLACK