Rick Anderson Quotes (42 Quotes)

Where I would have thought this was 30-70 or 40-60 a few weeks ago, my guess is it feels more like 50-50 now, which is not just a number but a trend line.

John had kept the car garaged most of the time, but as with most Model A's, the floor pans and lower three inches of the body were rusted beyond repair and had to be replaced. My brother, Mike, helped me to restore the car as well. He stripped the entire car to bare metal, and then I welded in 13 different body panels to replace the rotted areas. Being 75 years old, the car had many dings and dents that had to be straightened.

If he throws like he has this spring training, to be honest with you, I think he'll keep going. He's been throwing the ball great.

I don't know who was out there for the first two innings. He wasn't fun to watch. Then he started throwing his fastball, and he got back to being Jo.

If he feels that way, good for him.

He has some concerns of velocity being down, but he's not the only one -- everybody else will be the same thing. Once you're there you will have plenty of time to get yourself ready.

He's pretty good. It's going to be fun to watch him progress.

He was crisp with all of his pitches and very sharp. I'm impressed with him he looks like he did a few years ago.

Having this road means that our hearses will come in clean and people will be more inclined to visit regardless of weather conditions.

We talked about naming the course Blue Stem Plains and this hole will have the blue-stem grass planted along it.

I thought some of their hits just made it through the infield.

Our national cemeteries are in fact national shrines -- places to memorialize the service of our veterans, our way of life, keeping us free. We intend fully to maintain this cemetery as a national shrine.

That's partly because the starting pitching has been much improved (17-9, 4.30 ERA) since the All-Star break. The most consistent pitcher of late has been lefthander Johan Santana, who was 4-2 with a 2.83 ERA since taking a permanent spot in the rotation on July 11. To help the Twins' other starters, who were frequently overthrowing, Anderson instructed them to throw only in the lower half of the strike zone during bullpen sessions between starts. He told them that he wants to see the catchers' mitts moving downward to receive every pitch during those workouts. If they're constantly throwing to the glove in the bullpen, ... then go into a game with the adrenaline pumping, everything they throw will go high in the strike zone.

Those are some great golfers who spent a lot of time on our courses.

The other day, I brought up (video of) Silva this year and Silva last year. And he's night and day with his delivery.

In all the times I saw him play, I never saw him hit a ball out of bounds. He was an excellent putter and he almost always wore a white shirt.

Yes, for most people the spring stats can fool you. But watching the way he's throwing the ball, he's backed off and pitched, not thrown. He's more letting the pitches work for him and letting the ball move for him and locating. He's not trying to overthrow or overpower hitters, but just make his pitches and have them put the ball in play.

He's a lot further ahead than he was last year. Sometimes you don't have the command you want early in the game, but he made the adjustment. As the game went on, he got pretty good.

Each company continues to engineer and design new products for the golfer. The No. 2 golfer in the world, Vijay Singh, will go to the president of a golf company about the latest technology to help better his golf game. Making clubs bigger and lighter not only benefits the pros but will help the average golfer.

He pitched non-aggressive and it wasn't fun to watch for two innings. Then he started using his fastball and got back to being Jo. I don't know who was out there for two innings.

I've been ordering clothes, most with the Red Tail Run logo.

This is happening all across the state, and there are a lot of people ending up with criminal records,

We're making changes because the bookstore has struggled to make a profit or break even over the past few years. We have begun affiliating our bookstore with Columbia as they are the eighth largest in the country and know how to run a retail company.

All the kids came over, and their eyes were wide. It was pretty cool. They wanted to see how he does his work, his bullpen routine. It was a great chance for them to watch him.

Nice rooms, but there's not enough seats inside them. You can only have two people at a time.

We really like this kid. He's got a loose arm and a good feel with all his pitches. Everything about him is very professional. And the best part has been that he's not intimidated here.

The names reflect the Australian character. We're fairly relaxed and down to earth. We have the ability not to take ourselves to seriously as an advantage. We're competitive in business and sporting arenas, but we also like to enjoy life and not get bogged down in the rhetoric of wine snobbery.

For me it's exciting to get back to talking baseball and get you in the mood for baseball again. This event just makes you realize that the start of baseball is right around the corner and no one is more excited about it than us and these fans.

The nylon-string guitar has no more powerful advocate on the current jazz scene than Ken Hatfield, whose virtuosic fingerstyle technique is matched by an exceptional compositional gift and who succeeds better than most at stretching the boundaries of his instrument while playing and writing music that feels as friendly and naturally straight-ahead as anything by Charlie Byrd or Wes Montgomery.

People love wine with bubbles, it makes the wine come alive.

Everyone in the rotation looked like they were pressing, trying to do way more than what they're capable of. That's what I wanted to address.

If they go all the way to the finals, he might be stretched out to two innings while we are trying to stretch him to six, seven innings. That's the biggest concern.

I think he's going to remember his first major league outing. Not just the thrill of being here, but probably the longest home run he's given up in his life.

We're deadly serious about our wine until it's in the bottle, and after that, it's all about having fun. We were one of the first to take this tack. We're really trying to demystify wine.

This guy's got great stuff. It's just a matter of commanding it. We've always thought he's nasty. I watch him in the pen, and I say, 'Wow' At 28, a lot of guys hit their prime.

There were many days that I worked late into the night to get that car finished in time, ... but at 5 p.m. on July 1, the car was started, tuned, and John drove it home. We had worked over 480 man-hours, but it was all worth it to see the smile on John's face. To work on a car like this is a dream.

Alice ... girls' night out, set in the audience of a Chippendale dancers performance.

That doesn't bother me at all because I know they'll get it going. The last two nights, we got seven innings out of both of our starters, and you can see them getting more consistent.

We thought it may be difficult for people to get their hands around a can of champagne, but it hasn't been a problem at all.

Even though we know it's January and the course opens in late April, when you put it like that, 100 days sounds like it's nearly here.

He pitched without his best stuff and threw some good pitches. What was impressive for a young pitcher was that he kept composed and threw pitches.

This is a good way for them to introduce their products to consumers and give golfers a jump in the season.