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.

Greg Hughes

We will be operating business as usual. There is no change for our 2006 plans, on the business or baseball side.

Alfonso Soriano

We have a day off tomorrow and will think about the baseball we've played the last two weeks. After that, we'll get back to baseball.

Jeff Zickafoose

We had three kids over .300 and nobody over .400. That's not great for high school baseball. We had to always hope for a pitcher to come up with a great game so we could stay in the game, and most of the time that didn't happen.

Bob Castellini

This was fun. The sitting president to come out and throw the first ball? That's a great honor for your baseball team, your fans, your city, your region. That doesn't happen very often. First time in 130 years it happened here. It's something we were proud of and wanted to go without a hitch and it certainly did.

Jeff Torborg

This was extreme circumstances,'' said Pat Courtney, a spokesman for Major League Baseball.

Rashad Reed

Those steals are a product of our press. I'm kind of like a center fielder in baseball. I'm reading the point guard and anticipating. With the exception of the second quarter, we played great defense.

Lamar Butler

This team is probably the loosest I've played on. Coach does a great job of keeping us loose. We play baseball at practice. He dances, claps, sings, and we all rally around that. There was no tension around the team.

Livan Hernandez

This team is excited, ... You play baseball like that. A lot of teams, the Marlins play like that and enjoy the game. This team is the same way.

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Stephen Bennett

Intuit posted strong revenue growth and even stronger profit growth during the third quarter. The company's performance positions us to end the year on track to meet our stated revenue and pro forma profit goals.

Tim Wallace

I'm pleased with our progress. 2005 was another growth year for us.

Christine Benz

A lot of the large growth stocks are taking a breather.

Ethan Harris

A lot of things have to go right even to get 2.3 percent growth for the year,

Jason Goldberg

A lot of these are not new products. But the growth opportunities are better outside the U.S.

Kari Pinkernell

They don't want give out a dividend because they think they'll give up their growth stock status. But they aren't growth stocks anymore.

David Jackson

They don't have the root system to pull them through. Trees and shrubs and older plants can push out new growth after the primary growth has been killed off, but shallow rooted plants can't.

Ethan Harris

This is a feel-good report. When you get a strong growth number and a low inflation number, it's hard to get a better combination than that for the economy.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Albert Schweitzer

Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.

Mark Twain

Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Hjalmar Branting

A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal

Ellen Glasgow

First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.

Dusty Baker

We sent him out to see if he can find more consistency. One time he's real good, the next time bad.

Brian Johnson

We actually have turned work away on ethanol. Right now, we have a workload that takes us out to next summer . . . and that's just with ethanol.

Taquan Dean

It's not for me, it's for years to come. This is a springboard for next year.

Rick Parry

It's not a no or a yes - there has been plenty of speculation and we will see next week. It's always encouraging when a player says he wants to come to Liverpool.

Gail Bronson

Everyone recognizes that wireless platforms are the next rev (step) of the Internet.

Bob Cook

Students will be as safe as ever and once again, this is just for one week. Next week we will be back to normal.

Dan Wiener

These three-year numbers that are going to be popping up in the media, and in advertisements over the next week or two, are going to be astounding.

John LeClair

I want to play again. I have another year on my contract, and we'll take it from there. As of (Wednesday) I'm planning on playing next year.

O. Singh

Seven shots around here is not much at all,

Norm Chow

I think he's a tremendous player. He's so explosive.