John Gall Quotations

Very excited about seeing the team play. I have a good feeling about what we can do this year. I'm very pleased with the attitude and commitment of the players.

Baseball is a lot more fun when you're winning. Right now, we haven't been winning. Hopefully, we can get this thing going pretty soon. We have the players. We just have to put it together here.

He did a good job of mixing up his pitches after that first inning. He settled down and threw to both sides of the plate.

Guys asked me if I had lost 30 pounds. Well, no.

I would take the bench role. And that's just the stage that I'm at in my career. I think I'm excited about a big-league opportunity, whichever opportunity it is at this point. ... I want to play at the highest level, and that's the major leagues and that's playing on a team like this.

I saw the ball pretty well off the bat. There are times when you don't get chances to make any catches.

I was very pleased with the enthusiasm showed by our players. It was good to see that type of attitude in a district opener. The win started us off nicely in district and hopefully we can keep moving in the right direction.

I was trying to get a little quicker. Hopefully that will help me defensively.

We played much brighter and sharper. It's nice to go into the playoffs on a roll.

We played below par tonight. I thought we were a little bit off tonight but we were still were able to win the game.

We came through very well. Our backs were against the wall but we found a way to win.

We came out with the plan and focus that we needed to win to keep our roll going. In the first half, we did what we needed to do, but in the second half, we experimented with some things. I was disappointed that we didn't finish some things in the second half.

We still found a way to win. I'm very pleased with the resiliency this team has shown this season.

We are looking for him to lead by example and put his experience to the test this year.

When you're at the top of the tree, teams try to force some things. I think we saw that tonight with Flower Mound. They tried to force the issue and we broke them down.

We tried to play the best we could considering the surface. We were able to dominate the whole game. If was difficult for us to put things. But we did what we needed to do.

We are very pleased to win another trophy. It was one of those games where we did enough early to win and then coasted.

I've seen enough lineup cards in my life to know that if you're not on it, you're not playing, ... I walked over there probably a little quicker than I usually do to check out the lineup card.

I've been around long enough to know you don't ever expect anything. I leave that stuff to my wife.

Sometimes it feels like I'm going against the grain, but I've got to continue to do it. There's no choice, so I'm going to go down there and keep fighting to get back up here.

There was really no thought to it, which is probably why it happened.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.

It was a very pleasing tournament for me.

It's rare to get opportunities to make plays like that, let alone a couple in the same night.

It's spectacular. It seems like they did a great job.

Everybody's got a different path. Like I say, there's not a better place to be right now, so I'm happy.

It seemed like that ball was up there for a while, ... Luckily, he didn't get there.

It was just one of those days when things didn't go right for us. Hopefully we can learn from some of the things that happened tonight and bounce back from them.

Every year is different. In the past, I thought I belonged in the big leagues even when I got sent down. This year I know it's where I belong, and I'm still going down to Memphis. It doesn't make me any happier to go, but I'm in the best shape of my life and I feel like I've got my swing in pretty good shape right now. I'm confident, whatever uniform I put on every day. That's not going to change.

I knew there was a chance, but I don't count my chickens until they hatch. Hopefully I get a chance to help the team.

I'm just trying to focus on every at-bat, every pitch, and not give anything away, but knowing that if I do, on the next pitch I've got to focus even that much more.

I had a feeling he was going to start with a slider, try to get a strike away. It dove away, and I took a decent pass at it. And then, yeah, from there, I could have tightened it down a little bit more. He was looking for me to chase, which I did.

I just put my head down and played hard. Every pitch, every at-bat, I concentrated on playing baseball.

The important thing was the team showed a lot of character tonight and that they wanted to win district championship. Flower Mound pushed us all night and all the credit goes to them. But we had a plan to win the game tonight and we did.