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.

David Wright

You look at it, you've got to take one game at a time and play good baseball. Yes, we started hot, but there have been a ton of teams that start hot, then they go into a drought after that. So we have to stay focused and continue doing what we're doing.

Mark Ellis

You look at Frank's numbers and he's amazing. He's already a presence around here. You couldn't be a baseball fan in the '90s and not follow Frank Thomas. He's as good as there was in the game.

John Gibbons

First of all, he's been in the organization a long time. Second, he's had a lot of these guys, ... He's a good baseball man, and he's paid his dues. And he's from the South.

Randy Johnson

There's really not one person in this clubhouse we could have been without,

Tom Slater

There was a little extra bounce in their step. With the hard work they put in ever single day, it makes them feel better to know that they're being rewarded for hard their hard work. The most important thing in baseball is confidence. Obviously when you win, it gives you a little more.

Jim Rew

There's something about playing the game of baseball that lights up a youngster's eyes but for children facing mental and physical challenges, that opportunity can often be a difficult first test. The Miracle League gives these children the opportunity to get out in the sunshine and enjoy the game of baseball in its purest form.

Scott Wallsten

There's no real justification for public financing of stadiums. They don't generate economic benefits. They don't help revitalize neighborhoods. The economic research on this is pretty solid. The only studies that show positive effects are the ones commissioned by baseball and people who want a stadium built.

Jeff Bagwell

There's no other situation this would be OK. A normal guy, that wasn't going to play. It fit for our situation at the time. It's not something I would advocate. But Roger Clemens is a gift from the baseball gods. Anything he does is a gift. ... Craig (Biggio) and I have never had a ring. Our best opportunity to get one was to have Roger around. He tends to his obligations, his kids. And it's not like the man comes in here and pitches five innings and gives up six every day.

Fran McCaffery

(Diop) has been great. He's doing more things, getting more comfortable. I have tremendous respect for Thompson. He's certainly a handful. To be able to put somebody in who's at least the same size as him is certainly helpful for us.

Alan Greenspan

could certainly meet the fundamental criteria of being simple, fair, and pro-growth.

Robert Lantos

could be a kind of serendipitous side-effect. Certainly I don't think it will hurt us.

Chris Grinde

Cory Meyer gave us a lot of energy. He's an extremely quick player. That certainly helped us.

Gina Martin

Core prices are at a little higher pace than the Fed is comfortable with, but they're certainly not out of bounds, and the interest rate increases over the past year and a half have kept inflation relatively low.

Jon Corzine

Corrections Commissioner Devon Brown, who has admirably served our state, certainly would have been considered for the post had he not taken a position elsewhere.

Penny Jordan

It's not very glamorous. People certainly wouldn't think so if they saw me sitting in my woolly socks at the kitchen table. Many times I sit at the typewriter and think, 'Why am I doing this?'

Steve Vai

I can count on one hand the people who are legendary in my book, and Tom Waits is certainly right at the top. It's funny, though: When I tell people that I like Tom's music, it surprises them.

Robert Brust

This soft revenue performance is seen virtually through all of our businesses. While we are not yet seeing any precipitous decline, we certainly see no signs of a recovery.

Todd Pratt

The way I look at it, it was a great game.

William Channing

The wise only possess ideas, the great part of mankind are possessed by them.

Henry David Thoreau

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them

Keith Tkachuk

These are young kids. This is the foundation. You need great goaltending, and that's what we've had over the years with Mike Richter.

Keith Tkachuk

These are young kids. This is the foundation, ... You need great goaltending, and that's what we've had over the years with Mike Richter.

Al Bloom

The rings are great sellers because they keep the man hard and they stimulate the woman.

P. Herbert

There would be no great ones if there were no little ones

Tom Rasmussen

This is a win-win solution for these three great organizations and our precious open space,

JamesOn Curry

This is a proving ground for us. It's a great opportunity for our team to get better and start getting ready for next season.

Frank Beamer

These are all unusual things that can happen in a ballgame,

Alfred Adler

Life happens at the level of events, not words

Jack Kerouac

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

James Stokes

I think that sort of thing could happen in any organization.

Johnny Damon

I think that's just part of my character. I just feel like injuries will happen if you don't play hard. That's the least I can do is always go out there and give it my all.

Johnny Damon

I think that's just part of my character. I feel like injuries would happen if you don't play hard.

Scott Sutton

I think that we started slow, and it's not going to all happen overnight,

Kenneth Kaunda

I think something very serious will happen if they took him under detention,

Ernie Accorsi

Last year I lost three top guys, ... because I let them walk out of here. They just took my offer and shopped it around. It wasn't going to happen again.

Jack Kerouac

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

Peggy Corrigan

I was really shocked, very honored and very humbled. That was 30 years ago. I didn't really feel like I'd done anything special. I just did it because I loved it.

Oprah Winfrey

If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.

Kevin McKidd

It’s been such an honor to be your Owen Hunt

Margaret Chase Smith

Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.

Duke Crews

That's big. With the type of talent that has come through this school, it's an honor to be a part of it.

Fisher DeBerry

The intent is to honor those who have been the most instrumental in a young man being at the academy,

Pope John Paul II

Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.

Lindsey Graham

President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.

Phil Donahue

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.

Peter Schiff

Often President Obama's worst critics are Senator Obama and candidate Obama.

Keith Henson

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.

Kathleen Sebelius

[I]nstead of spending your energy attacking the parts of the president's [health care] proposal you don't like, you can use it to strengthen the parts you do.

Ralph Stanley

[Regarding President Obama] Yeah, yeah, yeah, I talked to him. I sorta, I guess, helped him get elected.

Rahm Emanuel

Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

Rahm Emanuel

The moment somebody's a president and you call him "Mr. President," (the person represents) our culture, our history, our sense as our nation.

Britney Spears

Yes I'm a virgin and proud of it.

Matt Watson

I'm very proud of the guys. We swam very well when we could've just showed up, we showed a lot of pride.

Chris Barnes

He got tired of sitting on the bench.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Ted Jr.

I think it's probably his time to go, and I think he will go.

Stephen Toulouse

It is on the table. Every time any kind of exploitation is going on, it is on the table.

Rick Barnes

He had it going. They were having a tough time with him.