Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Bamber

Back in the Eighties, I'd buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible.

Jim Gilligan

Once we get it all done, it will be better than it's ever been. Our baseball park and our baseball team are going to get better every single day... Right up to the end of the season, the field will get better.

Jeff Chown

Right now there's a risk in signing any baseball player, whether or not there's been a rumor about him or not. There's a dark cloud over the entire sport.

Peter Angelos

Sam has done a good job for this organization for a long time. He is a solid baseball man. He has a great personality and is a very committed baseball professional.

Theo Epstein

The schedule says we play at the end and the standings say we're pretty close and those games will matter, ... Both teams have survived the toughest division in baseball and whoever wins the series will probably get into the playoffs. They might be the only one.

Jerry Smith

There's always been that in baseball. You have different people that see different things. Some people grade it tough and some people are very lean. That's why you see some kids hitting.600 and some hitting.300. Some people go by Major League Baseball that if it's close it's an error. Some people say if they put the bat on the ball it's a hit.

Carlos Garcia

I've seen a lot of players over the years with great baseball tools and good instincts, ... But this kid is something special. He does things nobody else can do.

Chris Coste

I've wanted to be a baseball player since I saw my first game when I was 5. I like having a uniform on my back.

Dan Klores

I've tried to make a film about love and pride. Baseball became the love for these young men, and therefore we feel all of their ups and downs.

Stephanie McDonald

As far as day-to-day life, he's a very happy baby. He's not miserable. He loves music. Knowing that he's not in any pain and that he can express his feelings is wonderful. It relieves us a lot. All we want is for him to enjoy his life.

Adrian Gonzalez

As long as the kids can get to enjoy this, they can take it back to their school and tell their friends about it, and get their friends to do well so they can come back here next year.

John Beilein

Rather than those gut-wrenching last seconds, it was good to just get some of these guys out of there and let them enjoy the experience of playing in the NCAA Tournament.

Karen Smith

People come from week to week, they enjoy each other and start forming friendships.

Jerome Flynn

I've always enjoyed the physical side of acting.

Darren Criss

I've always enjoyed fashion and dressing up for things, whether it's high fashion or play fashion.

Wilma Askinas

A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view.

Bill Steiner

See? We didn't want you to stress and miss out on enjoying your weekend.

Damien Chazelle

Practicing is not normally fun. Sometimes people say they're practicing, but they're really just enjoying themselves and the instrument. That's not real practice.

Lee Humphrey

As a shooter you can tell when your shots are going good. Tonight I felt good, especially in the second half.

William Bell

The T1 line went down at work the other day and I felt like I was working with half a brain,

Brandon Jenkins

I've never felt this way. I never lost this many games in my two years here. We're just a young team. We've got to get tougher.

Lynsey Addario

I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough.

Lorenzo Meyer

A frantic response by bureaucrats who felt the (student) movement was threatening their grip on power.

Stephen McPherson

Once we saw it was not launching, we felt like unfortunately it was not going to get better and we had to make a change.

Todd Engle

It was very big to get that win and something we kind of played off. I felt no matter what happened that we had a successful run, but it was of major importance to the kids to get that win. I could really tell in the fourth quarter and there was a lot of excitement.

Jason Berken

It was worth the wait. It felt great. (Catcher Adrian) Casanova called a great game, and it felt awesome.

Hans Buder

It was wild. It really felt like it was 'Independence Day,' the movie.

Michael Bennet

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

Scott Robinson

A point for us is good but we made some mistakes out there and I thought this was a game we could have won. Normally in three-on-three someone scores after a game like this but we'll take the positives and move on into the new year.

Brian Buchanan

And then I see them at the games, and they just go, go, go. I never hear them complain. Heck, they're always so happy to be there. And it reminds me how lucky we are to have them.

Sheila King

The team played very, very well. We played a 32-minute game and did what we needed to do from start to finish.

Sheila King

The talk after the game was playing for 32 minutes. And playing 100 percent for 32 minutes. I don't think we got that tonight.

Chris Spivey

The third quarter says it all -- it happened so quick. That was pretty much the meat of the game -- we got off to a good start, then got outscored.

John Gibbons

The thing about this game is that it doesn't wait on you.

Eduardo Najera

The thing about the fouls is that it slows the pace of the game and all the fouls just keeps us from running.

Romeo Crennel

The thing I've been talking to my team about is that even though it's Ohio, it's still one game and we still have a lot of games we're going to have to play after this one.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Jennifer Pahlka

Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if you're one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.

Jack Kozuchowski

I've spent half my life here. And they've always given me a lot of space to do what I thought I needed to do. It's been a labor of love.

John McDermott

The statement was very similar to the statements he's given previously,

Hal Capps

You never know what we are going to run. We feel like we have six tailbacks that can get the job done on any given night.

Tony Hawk

When I landed the first 900 at the XGames, it was just - it was a personal achievement. It was something that I have strived for for years and years and years, and in a lot of ways had given up on it. But I just didn't think of the resonance that would have.

Tom Watson

I guess I have never been much of a complainer. You just take what is given you, and don't complain about what you can't affect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do the thing and you will be given the power

Bill Clinton

And though you have given too much, you still have so much to give.

Ryutaro Kono

The rise in the numbers shows that growth is on a solid footing.

Jeffrey Kagan

This could be a growth opportunity for AT&T with a quicker payoff.

Kevin Johnson

This quarter marked the 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth for the server and tools business, with Microsoft SQL Server revenue up more than 30 percent over the quarter.

Brian Tracy

Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource

Jane Addams

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

Ho Chen

The outlook for 2006 is quite robust as we are looking for the growth momentum to be maintained. The main reason for the higher fourth-quarter numbers was the manufacturing sector.

Ben Horowitz

There are no silver bullets...

John Chambers

While there were a number of highlights, it was probably the U.S. that topped the highlight list with strong order growth of approximately 20 percent year over year. This is better order growth than we've experienced in the last six quarters in the U.S..

Bernie Sanders

In fact, climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism.

Ryne Sandberg

We here today owe America's pastime a strict policy.

John Maynard Keynes

If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours.

Mohammed Kamal

For the first time, a president will owe his power to the people.

Joshua Jackson

I would say trustworthy too, but he owes me money.

John Battaglia

If the price of the stock drops, you could owe more in taxes than the value of the stock.

George Parks

I owe this all to Mr. Harris; he's the man. If it weren't for him I wouldn't be here.

Mack Brown

Three years ago I would have said, 'Tell me why I owe YOU one?

Rich Miller

We owe Pawtucket something. They played us very tough.

Fredi Gonzalez

Pratt wore his shirt on the plane home.

Mack Brown

I've been planning this one for 33 years and now I really don't know what to say.

Ramonce Taylor

The way we're planning for Teddy Ginn, I don't think he's going to get away from our defense.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?

Steve Harris

We're having this process stuffed down our throats. Nothing about this plan is acceptable.

Jamie Oliver

The future is about a plant-based diet.

Frans Ludeke

We have had to prepare plans for all eventualities.

Michio Kaku

Our astronauts, when they go orbiting around the earth, they actually come back slightly younger than a twin that they would have on the planet Earth who was stationary. This is called the twin paradox.

Liaquat Baluch

The results are totally managed, planned and rigged.

Uli Hoeness

We're playing for the people, not for the regime. We want to reduce this to soccer only.

Matt Hasselbeck

The Pro Bowl. But I don't feel like playing right now.

Arlen Specter

I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.

Randy Carlisle

We scored that touchdown, and once we did that, we started playing with confidence.

Joseph Hunter

Us being ranked like we are and playing like we are, it's going to be that much more of a stage for us.

Al Frost

You look at him and think he should be playing basketball.

David Bullock

There's no more hit-and-giggle. They're out there playing for pride.

Anna Lee

The time I used to spend playing tennis I now use for reading or doing embroidery.

Evan Needham

I started watching it more and playing it more when Tiger started having those big years.

Bai Ling

You have to be proud of who you are.

Asa Butterfield

I can clap really fast. I can beatbox. I can type the alphabet in under 2 seconds. That's probably the one I'm most proud of.

Dennis Eckersley

I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings.

Jane Garvey

We have, I am proud to say, successfully transitioned in a very uneventful way.

Britney Spears

Yes I'm a virgin and proud of it.

Dave Ramsey

Be very proud of what you do, and if you aren't then change it.

Philip Hoffman

Be proud, Mom, because I'm proud of you, and we're here tonight, and it's so good.

Gary Bartlett

Turnout is not anything to be proud of this year.

Mats Sundin

We've had our struggles this year but we're going to do everything we can to make it in to the playoffs. I'm very proud of this group.

Cobi Jones

This has been my most satisfying, my most gratifying, my most content year, and to culminate this way is perfection. (on the Los Angeles Galaxy's 2005 season)

Cobi Jones

Being out in the heat for two weeks can definitely drain your energy.

Aly Raisman

There's nothing better than going out there and seeing USA on your leotard.

Rush Limbaugh

Obama had the audacity to say, 'I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.' Ladies and gentlemen, torture in the United States has always been illegal.

Rush Limbaugh

The press has met their Waterloo, and it's Obama.

Jeremy Jackson

Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options.

Harry Belafonte

This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.

Diane Watson

The United States Postal Service is the world's most efficient postal system.

Al Neuharth

USA TODAY hopes to serve as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make the USA truly one nation.