Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Fischer

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

Tim Chambers

We'll shock the world. And when we do it, it'll be the greatest baseball story ever written.

Felipe Alou

What is their proof? ... Are they testing players, too? How do you explain that? Or have they stopped testing now? We just saw him hit five in 30 at-bats. So what's going on now? I hope that he's judged by the real baseball people when he's finished.

Alex Trebek

You should never wear a baseball cap when working in close quarters in the attic: You never see that beam above you!

Albert Pujols

I learned to play (baseball) on the streets in the Dominican Republic when I was 8 yrs old.

Albert Pujols

People ask me if I believe how quickly my career has taken off. I just tell them that Jesus Christ is my strength. God has blessed me and I will continue to do my best for him. That is more important than anything I could ever do in baseball.

Albert Pujols

Baseball is simply my platform to elevate Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior.

Albert Pujols

I try to spend as much time as possible with God and my family. That's more important than anything I'm doing in baseball.

Albert Pujols

I play to represent God, something bigger than baseball.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Aldous Huxley

And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.

Albert Einstein

Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut

Albert Einstein

Play is the highest from of research.

Albert Einstein

Although words exist for the most part for the transmission of ideas, there are some which produce such violent disturbance in our feelings that the role they play in the transmission of ideas is lost in the background.

Albert Einstein

X + Y + Z X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Alexander Ovechkin

We're going to play our game and we're going to come back and we're going to play Montreal or Tampa,

Alexander McCall Smith

My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; weve become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.

Alexander Pope

And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.

Laura Lippman

I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that.

Rick Stockstill

On the defensive side of the ball, we signed a couple defensive linemen that are edge type guys who can come off the edge and are athletic. They have good bodies and can get bigger as they work in the weight room.

Ma Jun

Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.

Roger Entner

Music could certainly be much bigger if pricing was more in line with what you find on the Internet.

Consumer Reports

More and more people are buying bigger and bigger, ... and the bigger the vehicle, the bigger the blind spot.

Craig Ellingson

My goal is to not have to cut anything at any level. I'd rather do it on the income side. I'd really like to have a bigger piece of the (budgetary) pie.

Michelle Wie

My hand swelled up so big it couldn't fit my glove, so I had to get a bigger size.

Richard Seymour

My favorite is a square-toe black shoe, but for a dressier look, I'll wear gators. The bigger the shoes, the more expensive they get. Unfortunately, I'm a size 17.

Bill Belichick

Maybe they played on their feet in high school, or as a freshman or sophomore in college, and then they got bigger and went down to the defensive line. Sometimes there is something to go back on there -- not always, but occasionally.