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.

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.

Jose Guillen

This is a pitchers' ballpark. Everybody knows that here. It's not in my mind anymore. I'm just here to play baseball -- that's what I'm going to do. Some of these guys are worried about it. That's not by business.

Babe Ruth

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.

Babe Ruth

I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime.

Jim Stoyle

We're happy to be 6-5. We've turned the corner. The thing is, we were 2-5 at one time (after having) lost four in a row and were frustrated. We were searching for some identity. The kids turned it around. That's what is unique about baseball that you can't do with basketball. You have to do get after it the next day.

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.

Tim Brosnan

ESPN has been a tremendous television partner and I am extremely pleased that we will be enhancing our relationship with their coverage of the inaugural World Baseball Classic. The magnitude of ESPN's reach will provide the broad, in-depth coverage that this event deserves.

Todd Pratt

Especially when you see Houston there. I love baseball, but I'm definitely watching football. Plus, I have to keep up with my guys.

Leslie Alperstein

Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of the tax cuts.

Jim Young

And there is no such thing as a no-sale call. A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is who is gonna close? You or him? Now be relentless. That's it, I'm done.

Ryan Evanochko

I wanted to go; I didn't want to call a timeout. But that's our system. That's how we practice. We trusted the system, and it just didn't work out that time.

Charles Grassley

Now is the time for each of us to stand up and demand change. Call your senators at once,

Jack Bicknell

Thank goodness his mom was OK. He couldn't just call down there, and he couldn't go down there (for several days).

Daryl Hannah

Rudolph Diesel was dead long before they named that by-product of petroleum they call diesel fuel. It had nothing to do with him.

Chris Simms

Put him up there as the greatest player in Texas history right now. He might have been there, but to have that performance and that game - what do they call it, an instant classic? That was it.

John Marshall

It would be useful to the voters if Marc wanted to talk about the issues, but he's now proven he's incapable of civil debate. He's more interested in calling names. Holtzman is desperate for attention.

Mack Strong

It was very surreal. I came home one day and she said, 'You're moving.' I said, 'No, we're not moving.' Then about a day later I call a call from a coach and he said, 'Pack your bags.' That was a weird time in our history.

Mike Schofield

Folks don't suddenly become tax hawks once they get to Austin.

Lastings Milledge

I want to get to the big leagues as quick as I can. But I want to stay there. I could be ready now or I couldn't be.

Mike Gold

We are taking a robust, step-by-step development approach,

Wellington Mara

I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.