Mike Quade Quotes

You try not to pay too much attention to the hype before the game, because you never know what's going to happen.

A big side of football is reacting to what happens.

Baseball is great because anything can happen through the ninth inning.

You don't know how many times I was in the huddle, asking my teammates to help me call a play.

You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.

I believe my strengths are my pace and reading of the game.

In football, whatever can happen can happen when the team performs well and sometimes when the team does not perform as well.

I think in football everything is possible.

Things can move so fast that you don't have time to catch your breath or think about the next move.

In football, everything is possible.

Speed has always been there in college football.

When you're a point guard, man, if you're not up to par, you're in a lot of trouble.

Things can change very fast in football.

I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.

When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

I don't miss being in the dugout - I'll make that clear.

The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.

I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about.

The more you hesitate in a game, the more your chance of getting hit. Your focus isn't there. When you hesitate, usually you're in trouble.

I'm dumbfounded, but nothing surprises me in this game.

One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

I wouldn't be surprised if this game went all the way to the finish.