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.

Michael Lewis

It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw.

Michael Lewis

Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it.

Michael Lewis

The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.

Michael Lewis

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

Michael Lewis

Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an inadequate tool for learning what you needed to know to evaluate baseball players and baseball games. Think about it. One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks. The difference between a good hitter and an average hitter is simply not visible-it is a matter of record

Michael Lewis

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.

Matt Long

I wasnt athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.

Matt Diaz

I've been sent down to the minor leagues six or seven times in my career. You've just got to have that stability. It's huge. It's comforting. And it's reassuring. To be part of something in this world that's constantly changing like baseball, it's awesome to have your hope anchored in something that's so stable.

Nick Zito

Sometimes running a rabbit works, sometimes it backfires. People have been using rabbits for hundreds of years. The rabbit has to be a good horse because they might not necessarily be able to do the job.

Carroll O'Connor

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

Jody Bass

It was a huge win for us. We got on a good run in the third quarter.

Lynn Meger

These seniors were great leaders. They were all good students and great people.

Marshal Cohen

Is it a challenge, but the good news for them is that it has been a sleepier brand, so it's not as if they are trying to maintain a property at its peak.

Craig Krenzel

I showed up at the team meeting (Saturday) and nobody told me to get out, so it's good news,

Caroll Spinney

I see no reason to quit. I can't imagine walking away from being Big Bird. I mean, that's an awfully good job that there's not too many of them. So I just want to keep doing it till I can't do it anymore.

Matt Lee

I should be happy but right now it doesn't feel so great. It's a good accomplishment but I know it could have better.

J. B. Smoove

I should be European, man. I'm long and lean. I'd look good in a trench coat.

Billy Blanks

Where I am today, is where my mind and will put me, where I am tomorrow is where my mind will put me.

Dalai Lama

If your mind is scattered, it is quite powerless.

Dalai Lama

As human beings we have the same experience of destructive and constructive emotions. We also have a human mind capable of developing wisdom. We all have the same Buddha nature.

Sri Chinmoy

One of the main faults of a fool is that he never changes his mind.

Tim LaHaye

I'm currently working on a Mind Siege for youth.

Thurston Moore

My mind is turning into kind of a fine gelatinous ball of pepper

Thomas Hobbes

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here.

Victoria Legrand

I personally do not listen to a lot of music. It helps keep my mind free. I don't want to sound like someone else from the get-go. I want to express myself and the world in my head.

Sophocles

Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

Alexei Mordashov

My wealth is reflected in the price of Severstal, and the number of shares I have in my possession doesn't have any impact on the company.

Irv DeGraw

I would like to think they can get in the 20 percent range, but with that number of shares it could be difficult.

Bill Gates

I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom.

Tubby Smith

When a team shoots 72 percent, you're not really playing much defensively.

Bobby Collins

It was the tempo we wanted to play, but we didn't want 27 turnovers.