Jimmy Haynes Quotes

You don't want to be down 2-0 in a series. It's always important to try and get one on the opponent's home court. It makes your job at home easier.

Momentum is a whole lot in the game of basketball. People dwell on momentum, but that really does matter.

When you are 10 points behind, you have to be focused just on the next game.

Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind.

Conceding just before half-time never helps.

I think the thing with our team is during the postseason, our best games that we've played during the postseason, we strung at-bats together. It's not necessarily going up there trying to hit a home run, but it's trying to put up a good at-bat for the next guy.

Scoring first changes everything. It makes everything easier for us.

Most one run games are lost, not won.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.

Each game we approach like a final. Today it was the opening game at home, we won and showed outstanding football qualities. We will be preparing for the next game the same way.

I've had this sneaking feeling throughout the game that it's there to be won.

The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead; never let up.

Sometimes that happens. I know how it feels to lose eight or nine to nothing. It can be frustrating but it was good for us. This was a team that was hot the last nine games. It seemed like any puck we touched went our way.

In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.

Obviously, you want to demand the puck; you want to have it as much as you can because you feel like good things can happen when it's on your stick.

Whenever I have played a game of cricket, whether it is under-16, under-19, or State level, my approach has been the same.

Every time I step on the field, I step on the field to make plays.

How are you gonna score if somebody doesn't drive in the runs?

When I went to home plate in a game-tied situation or with a chance to do something and help the ballclub win one, I'd try to make eye contact with the pitcher.

There are at least three kinds of advantages that the pitcher and batter contest. There's the physical advantage, the strategic advantage, and also the psychological advantage. I didn't want two out of three. I wanted them all.

Obviously you want to play hard all the time, but at different moments of the game you step it up even more.

We always think that the next match is the most important one.

Whenever you go up 2-0, you understand that teams are going to be desperate.

Of course you don't want to concede a goal in any game.