John Cole Quotes (29 Quotes)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I firmly believe that if we need to sell church property to pay the victims of the hideous sexual abuse by priests against children in their care, we should do so.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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,

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.

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

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