He showed that he's very confident in his body. He didn't show any hesitancy with his knee. His arm is as strong and as quick as ever, and his accuracy has definitely improved. If anything, he looks better now than he did a year ago. |
He started out not very sharp and he had 37 pitches in the first inning. That's almost three innings worth and we were debating whether or not to send him out in the seventh or not but he wanted to pitch and he ended the game strong. |
He told me to steal the tip. I looked at his feet (the Jackets' Thompson) and knew he was going to tap it back(wards). Their guy didn't go for it and and I was able to get it. That's how you make a statement and we went on a 9-1 run. |
He was a guy everybody looked up to as far as his leadership and what he brought to the field every day. He's a guy who was there for everybody and who cared about what everybody did or was doing. He kind of looked out for everybody. |
He was aggressive and battled through. He took the time to regroup every time something happened in the game. [After the sixth], he had enough, and I thought that was a good time to get him out. I wanted him to go out on a good note. |
He was aggressive and went after hitters from the get-go. He threw his fastball for strikes early in the count and got ahead of hitters, which made his breaking stuff that much more effective. It was a completely different guy today. |
He was deeply and fundamentally Irish. But we know that at one point he also became French. He loved France, he chose to live here, he wrote in French. It's why we're here, French and Irish together, to pay tribute to this great man. |
He was probably helped early on by being a small player in a rapidly growing market. He honed his skills and management team, and whatever flaws he had, which were few, were gone by the late '90s, and he chewed up everybody in sight. |
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He will look to make the play first before trying to do things himself. He's always going to make the play that involves his teammates. And that's what this game is all about. He's recognized it a lot better than most do at this age. |
He's a good friend of mine, and I know how hard he worked to come back from his knee injury. Plus, he's in the right place. He's one of those guys who needs to enjoy the game. He needs that, and you can see it. He's enjoying himself. |
He's a great kid and a great competitor. He's going to bounce back and be great in the NCAA Tournament. We need to beat Arizona, but it's hard to beat a good team like Arizona three times. They've improved since we've last seen them. |
He's a great player and an interesting guy. He's not like a lot of guys, out there screaming and yelling. He's passive and quiet, one of the most humble guys you'll meet. He never loses his cool and always gives us a fighting chance. |
He's a guy, obviously, a number of commentators will say he's a warrior, he plays with injuries. I just feel like (with) him being knowledgeable about the quarterback position, I just feel like we'd probably be in a better situation. |
He's ambitious. If you look at the guys who started for us last year as first-year players, regardless of what their exceptional talent levels were, they were ambitious. They wanted to get on that field, and Elton fits that category. |