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.

Albert Pujols

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

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.

Douglas MacArthur

Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb... he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.

Don Larsen

I'll never forget the catch he made to save the game.

Don Mattingly

Baseball's still a game. I don't want it to be work. I want it to be a game.

Don Baylor

Don Baylor, New York Yankees DH, on Billy Martin and his predecessor Yogi Berra: Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.

Don Drysdale

It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball.

Don Drysdale

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

I think my new thing will be to try to be a real happy guy. I'll just walk around being real happy until some jerk says something stupid to me.

Stephen Rubin

I have never seen him so happy writing something.

Laveranues Coles

I'm very happy with where I'm at and I'm very comfortable here.

Ryan Smyth

I'm very happy with this deal, especially since we didn't have to go through the arbitration process,

Frank Michalowski

I'm very happy with the year - especially with the size of my team.

John Tortorella

I'm very happy with the way the organization is working.

Michael Sim

I'm very happy with the way I played today. I'm also very surprised to be leading the tournament after an even-par round.

A.J. Burnett

I'm very pleased with the outcome and the results. I probably could have thrown 10 or 15 more, if I wanted to, but overall I'm really happy with how I threw.

Bob Schmidt

I'm very pleased with the meet. I saw a lot of competitive effort, and I saw the kids taking a lot of pride in what they were doing. I'm happy for them.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Andrew Niccol

Some people think 'Lord of War' is a political film,

Liam Hemsworth

Southern people remind me a lot of Australia.

Jim Anderson

So we're trying to let people know that we will automatically enroll them in Part D and there is no premium at all,

Mark Rylance

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

Jesse Toprak

Now, for vehicles priced under $40,000, it is one of the first questions people ask.

Cesar Romero

Now I don't know half of the young people in the industry. It's too spread out, too diffuse.

Lois Lowry

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

Robin Cook

Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia,

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.

Tony Parker

In France, if you talk to little boys, they know all of the NBA players and not one single Pro A player.

Urban Meyer

But what I didnt want to have happen, and I made this clear to Jeremy (Florida AD), if I am able to go coach, I want to coach at one place, the University of Florida. It would be a travesty, it would be ridiculous to all of a sudden come back and get the feeling back, get the health back, feel good again and then all of a sudden go throw some other colors on my shirt and go coach? I dont want to do that. I have too much love for this University and these players and for what weve built.

Rogers Hornsby

Players who stand flat footed and swing with their arms are golfers, not hitters.

Warren Moon

I was always geared towards either wanting to finish number one or be number one as far as the best player that I could be, or be the best player at my position in the league. I wanted that to be a constant reminder to my teammates that they looked to their leader who is wearing that number, this is what you should strive for as well.

Will Oldham

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.

Zakk Wylde

Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived.

Yusef Komunyakaa

I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.

William Golding

Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.

Tubby Smith

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