(60 quotes found)
“We'll take our lumps if they come.”
John Burness
“It was one of times when you get a lump in your throat and try not to start crying in public, ... I was also proud I was a part of it. I was happy for him and his family.”
John Uecker
“I'm making strides. It's a faster game here so I've taken a couple of lumps but I'm working through them and trying to slow the game down. It's one thing learning to play a new position in the Minor Leagues. It's another trying to play a new position in the big leagues. So I'm trying to stay grounded about the whole thing and not get too caught up in trying to be perfect.”
Justin Huber
“The lump sum is not a bonus, but it feels like a bonus.”
Kelly Svebek
“We've eight players involved in the panel, and that would be a big lump out of our squad,”
Mark McCall
“I wouldn't say it brought a tear to my eye, but certainly a little bit of a lump in my throat when I (first) sat down here and looked out that window and said, OK, this is a great responsibility I have.”
Martin Cohen
“I've got players with lumps as well but I'm not going to stand here and defend something I can't really pass comment on until I've seen the pictures and spoken to the boy.”
Mark Hughes
“To start three freshmen is a scary thing. They took their lumps, made some plays and got better.”
Mike Riley
“We worked their tails off in December and January, and we took our lumps back then knowing that this is what we work for. They understand that. They were able to overcome the setbacks in January and realized they believed in themselves, we believed in them and that's all that mattered.”
Brent Jennings
“Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? / Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: / Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”
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