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Unfortunately, it's taken us until the ninth inning to get back into every game. Timely hitting has to come sooner than the ninth.

Ryan Doumit

If these kids have not passed their ninth-grade math class, there is almost no chance they are going to pass the WASL.

John Thorp

In ninth grade and 10th, he did basketball, [but] I always told him to wrestle. Basketball wasn't working out for him.

Billy Mcallister

I did want to go out there for the ninth inning. I had good stuff and I felt like I could have done it, but I'm just glad I helped this team win. We really needed a win.

Bruce Chen

In ninth grade, I figured he maybe could finally beat me, ... In 10th grade, I knew he could beat me. So I stopped playing him then because whenever anyone asked 'Who won the last game?' I always wanted to be able to say 'I did.' .

Raymond Felton

We've got a great ninth-grade class.

Steve Rose

I thought he was in his ninth or 10th year. He's a big guy and he's good. He gets his feet where they need to be. He never seems to be out of position.

Robert Geathers

No pomade or bear grease, not even baptism, can grow back the foreskin of which we were robbed on the eighth day of life; those who, on the ninth day, do not bleed to death from this operation shall continue to bleed an entire lifetime, even after death.

Greg Lemond

An incoming ninth-grader who hasn't passed algebra is certainly at risk of failing the exit exam.

Karen Rizzi

That was just hard, especially for a ninth-grader in those conditions. I was hoping for a little better for her.

Libby Ouellette

You don't expect that out of your ninth hitter. For most teams, the ninth hitter goes 1-for-4, but today he had two hits and a sacrifice bunt that set up another run.

David Ruark

He's not a nine-hole hitter. He hits ninth in our order, but we don't consider him to be the ninth-best player on the team. His job is to get on base. Everything else is a bonus.

Jeff Blankenship

We've got to do better than that one inning. We've got to get an out when they give us one with the bunt. But we righted the ship, (Danny) Farquhar came in and got a couple of big outs and Chad (Beck) did what he's supposed to do in the ninth.

Tony Robichaux

This game was just like game one. They took the lead from us with three outs left and we couldn't answer in the ninth.

Jon Groth

I would say that, as you and I stand here at Ninth and F [streets], there is espionage going on around us.

Peter Earnest

Woodland High has always been an open campus, but next fall it will begin to close. Ninth-graders and 10th-graders will not have that freedom (to leave at lunch).

Rob Ball

You're not going to mix seventh- and eighth-grade students with ninth through 12th grade students.

Dan Kaiser

I can honestly say I've never had a team score 17 runs and I was on the top step [of the dugout] in the bottom of the ninth with a chance to lose the game.

Joe Szekely

You get to the ninth inning and your stomach is clear up to here. But it's not because of your job. It is because you want to win so badly.

Terry Francona

I came down with my patients all the way from the ninth floor including people with spinal fractures.

Ruth Berggren

We were just trying to get some respect for our young kids. These are the same kids who were ninth- and 10th-graders last year and now they're 10th- and 11th-graders.

Jim Reynolds

They were out of their minds tonight. They were clicking on all cylinders. They have the eighth and ninth guys coming off the bench and making 3s like it's a normal thing, which its not.

Dick Diener

I think batting ninth really gives me a chance to see everything that the pitches has. I've probably seen him throw all his pitches to the first eight hitters.

Yuniesky Betancourt

I wanted to play since my ninth grade year, but I was busy with soccer and then I broke my arm.

Matt Hughes

I can see some eighth graders getting a chance to play and start on the ninth grade team.

Kevin Killingsworth

In a game like this we didn't expect to be down. The way we answered back in the ninth inning really shows a lot about our team.

Dave Schultz

My goal was to finish in the Top 10, and we ended up ninth. Next year, I'll set our goals a little bit higher.

Vince Villanucci

Any time we go into the ninth with the bottom of the lineup coming up, ... all we're trying to do is get a hit, get a walk, get a couple of guys on -- because we know: We've got to get Albert up there.

Jason Isringhausen

We battled really hard with a man on third and nobody out (in the ninth).

Ted Jarmusz

I definitely knew what I wanted to do since ninth grade, ... I knew I wanted to be in sports and broadcasting.

Brian Corey

Graham ran well. He got ninth against some stiff competition. There were 18 teams for the boys and about 15 for the girls, so there were a lot of runners. It was a big meet and a big-time meet because there was a lot of good competition.

Andy Holt

There was a point where we had four ninth-graders out there. My kids played hard, and they represented Lakes basketball well. I'm so proud of them.

Cassandra Rahming

It wasn't the hit, it was the walk. You can't be walking guys like that with two outs in the ninth.

Will Ohman

He got attached to that, watching that. We talked about that in eighth grade, ninth grade.

Rush Propst

There would have been minor flooding, two to three feet, in the Lower Ninth Ward. Most of the Chalmette area would have been dry.

Dr. Hassan Mashrique

He throws a very heavy ball and it's hard to pick up. He has a lot of velocity and his split-finger is fantastic. It's great to know ... that when we have a lead in the eighth or ninth inning, we're going to get that win.

Herman Demmink

I'm so happy, hitting eighth or ninth. If they put me second to help the team, I'm happy, too. We'll continue to push the envelope.

Juan Uribe

There seems to be a drop in performance at transition years, from fifth to sixth grade and eighth to ninth.

Connie Jones

Garrett said, 'I might need to get loose,' before the ninth. I said, 'Nah, you can sit down.

Craig Rodriguez

I have been to the Ninth Ward. There is debris in the Ninth Ward, but you don't have people. We say, send the money where the people are.

Mark Viator

It's two outs, bottom of the ninth -- he's gotta come through. He has to come up with something definite and substantial. Anything less than that will be taken as a negative by the market.

Angel Mata

We're playing so much better. We should have beat Keystone the other day. And we beat (Union County) with a ninth-grade pitcher.

Al Pound

Growth will continue to come from private spending, exports of electronics and commodities, and the boost from the Ninth Malaysia Plan.

Leslie Tang

I wouldn't hang my hat on it. Kids change a lot (between eighth and ninth grades). You have the kids in the spring and some kids play up.

Chris Hutchens

I wouldn't say exceeded (expectations) yet. We're still getting there. I would say we've had some young kids, ninth and 10th graders, on our team that have really increased our quality depth.

Brian Martz

We never have full knowledge of what we're going into until we hit race day. And even then, it's a crazy sport. You just have to go for it and hope that you have the right equipment. I'm definitely a little disappointed that I'm sitting in ninth place. But like I said, this is bobsled.

Jean Prahm

We have two eighth-graders, a ninth-grader and an 11th-grader. They all enrolled [Wednesday] and are here with family.

Bill Monroe

Alma was my teacher in ninth grade. I graduated from here in 1999 when it was Weymouth North High School. I'm acutely aware of how old this building is.

John Boucher

This is the first time we've beaten them since I was (in the ninth grade). I'm glad we got the win and that I was on the mound.

Taylor Thompson

After I saw the leaders, I knew we could make a run. Going into the ninth frame of the last game, we knew we had it, so we just tried to get as many pins as we could so our score would hold during the last month and a half.

Art Brown

A high school game that goes into the ninth inning at 0-0, neither team deserved to lose. But somebody's got to lose and it was us.

Shawn Reynolds

We could start with the seventh and eighth grades. It is not fair to play the ninth grade one year and then sit out the next.

Rob Veach

This group has really improved. They've gone from not winning any games as seventh graders to winning eight games as ninth graders. They've really worked hard. I feel like this group will keep working hard and continue to get better.

Mark Manchester

I kept patient, kept telling myself you need one good hole to get it started. Obviously, that was the ninth.

Luke Donald

My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.

Michael Eisner

When they scored in the ninth, I didn't know how we'd react.

Joe Lee

He's done it before, he knows how to do the ninth-grade academies.

Paul Vallas

I asked myself, if we opened the season with Atlanta and had 3-2 games every day, will this man be ready to do that, pitch in the ninth inning? In my mind, I say yes, he will. I could see him doing that.

Grady Little

The Libertine. The moment that the decision came down that the movie was going out in this period of time with so many films and one-ninth of the staff, our imperative was to get this movie released as it should be.

Russ Smith

It's nice that toward the end of the game, we've got that stability down there. Fortunately, Cortes was lights out tonight, he was unbelievable, and he set me up for the ninth.

Brian Fuentes

The Ninth Amendment makes it clear that all the rights spelled out in the Constitution aren't the end of rights as we know them. It makes it clear that there are rights reserved to people that aren't spelled out in the Constitution.

Chris Barron

We have 10 or 11 ninth and tenth-graders and most will be playing. [We could] have four freshmen on the field at the same time.

Rich Gargiulo

It was really great to have people to look up to. The team we had when I was in eighth or ninth grade was so good. I really looked up to them.

Craig Hamilton

The ninth and tenth graders are really skilled ballplayers. They fit in very well at this level.

Jeff Dropauer

We had all kinds of chances to win this game. But if you keep a good team in the game long enough, eventually they're going to find a way to beat you. And they executed in the ninth inning.

Bobby Halford

He's pitched so good. That's tough on a ninth-grader.

Brad Kent

This will be fun. This is what it's all about. Game 7. When you're a young kid watching it on TV or playing a video game, it's always Game 7. It's the same thing, full count, bottom of the ninth. This is what it's all about.

Marc Magliarditi

When you have a great closer on the mound in the ninth inning, the game is 99.9% over. So anything you can get against a guy like that is a huge plus.

John Mabry

It was nice for us to keep the offense going, keep tacking on runs through the ninth. It was nice to see because a lot of guys chipped in.

Jason Lane

Although the trade surplus declined for the ninth straight month, both exports and imports were up strongly in December.

Mamoru Yamazaki

My ninth and 10th-grade years the team didn't make it. And that was my first year going and I had fun up there.

April Mcclendon

Even as a ninth-grader, he was so strong. And he already had a mustache.

Kelly Guempel

We stole one in the eighth and then we stole one in the ninth with the squeeze. It was kind of nice.

Bill Masse

In the end, we didn't think finishing at the ninth was going to give us much more room than finishing at 18.

Stephen Ross

They get stronger with each match. They are only ninth and 10th grade. It will be exciting to watch them over the next few years.

Wendy Hastings

I was pathetic my ninth grade year. I couldn't even make a lay-up and you can forget about a long range shot.

Dominique Keller

That doesn't mean that if the weather was nice, we would have had a good economy. We might have been eighth instead of ninth.

Ross Gittell

Probably the statue was meant to represent Hercules' ninth labor to retrieve the belt of the Amazon queen Hippolyte.

Jane Thompson

One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.

Joe Garagiola

As a ninth-grader, this builds a lot of confidence.

Karla Sempsrott

We got up to the ninth inning. Miller stuffed his bill in his drawer and it died.

Shareese Deleaver

We saw kids blossom in our classes and then they were pregnant by ninth grade and not going to college.

Caleb Dolan

I left my putts short on the ninth, 10th and 11th but the birdie on the 14th gave me something good to sleep on.

Graeme Mcdowell

We are completely self-funded. This is our ninth year of concerts.

Larry Goldfarb

We were in a good position going into the ninth, and then we had our closer out there.

Josh Towers

He told me I was going out in the ninth, and I said, 'Oh yeah, cool,' ... He gave me the opportunity. I was very happy about that.

Ramon Ortiz

People could not believe, especially the residents of the Ninth Ward, that there wasn't hanky-panky in the flooding.

Spike Lee

I got out of a jam in the eighth. I got a little wild in the ninth and I just got beat.

Dan Miceli

The eighth and ninth aren't exactly the way that we drew up our game plan. Hopefully it will be a learning experience for those guys.

Torey Lovullo

I felt I didn't have a ninth in me.

Robert Gordon

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.

Barbara Stanwyck

It was good to see tonight that we scored some runs late and did put (them) away and were able to relax a little there in the ninth inning.

Rob Childress

We are ranked ninth in the world (by volume).

Su Birch

He's always been aggressive and had great instincts for the ball. It was always kind of amazing how he kept soaking up football. Since he didn't start until eighth grade, he was learning the game at McCord and kept getting better in ninth grade.

Jeff Gafford

He knew what everybody was capable of already because he's had us since the ninth grade. We weren't scared to mess up on the court, and that took a lot of pressure off of us.

Shun Long

Since I'm ninth in the points right now, you know I'm for it, ... But that's really not the reason. It would bring the same kind of buzz to the Busch Series that it's brought to Cup.

Jason Keller

We were very fortunate to come out with a win because (Appleton North is) an exceptional team. Not a bad win for a team predicted to finish ninth.

Troy Schaefer

This is great. All the years before, we had good teams but just couldn't get over the hump. The last three years in the district we lost in the ninth inning.

Bill Bullock

That's going to help us late in games. The seventh, eighth, and ninth innings is when you win.

Justin Pigott

We need to get a lot of preliminary input before we can work on getting them (ninth-graders) to the high school.

Jeff Meyers

Through the first six or seven innings it was like, here we go again. But in the eighth and ninth, we found a way to get it done.

Ron Gideon

He played in my Memorial Day Tournament of Champions. He was, by far, the most advanced ninth-grader I've ever seen.

Bob Gibbons

Ben did very well to place ninth. He ran a very good race.

Ian Battles

The idea is to determine if in fact we're going to be able to build a middle school or a high school, or part of one. Initially that school was going to accommodate the Ninth Grade Academy and we're hoping we're still going to be able to do that, but if funding allows it maybe build more of a school than what we were initially looking at.

Juan Flores

I am encouraged that a few ninth-graders do look like they have what it takes to be really good players.

Ernest Pascoe

We walked this entire Ninth Ward for search and rescue. It looks different [now]. This is what the first guys saw. It's come full circle.

Eric Baum

We faced one of the best pitchers in the country today, a tremendous competitor and a class act, and he was magnificent. It was a great college baseball game. We made it interesting in the ninth, but we were just too far in the hole at that point.

Elliott Avent

I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It's been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, 'I can fly!' Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.

Elena Anaya