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 Young

Besides that, the weather is great, the travel is a piece of cake, you can focus entirely on baseball and the facilities are first-class because games are played at Spring Training stadiums. I had a blast. Whoever thought of the AFL, it was a great idea.

Ozzie Guillen

Bobby Cox called me last night and said, 'You'll never retire from baseball; make them retire you,' ... He called me like 4 yesterday and said: 'You're too good a baseball man; people like you. Make those guys fire you. Keep taking money away from them.'

Bob Todd

Bill Davis Stadium has been ranked as one of the best college baseball stadiums in the country and I think Ohio State fans have done a great job creating an extremely positive atmosphere. I can't believe it is the 10th season.

Ichiro Suzuki

Because I love baseball. That is the No. 1 motivation. What I do is just come here to perform.

John Leonard

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

Jennifer Scott

We were driving to school one morning when he was 8 years old and I said, 'Luke, what do you want to be when you grow up?' ... He said right then he wanted to be a professional baseball player. I wanted to tell him how it was a long shot and he should probably choose something else. It was right there on my lips. I think God stopped me. Instead, I said, 'Luke, somebody has to be a major-league baseball player, so why not you?'

Mark Shapiro

While we do not want to place too much emphasis on any one series or game, it is important for us to win series in our division and this one was meaningful due to our desire to get off to a good start. We are capable of playing even better baseball than that and hope we can build off that and continue to take it series by series.

Brian Nelson

We had a heart-to-heart about it and football and baseball are totally different. We told them that the reason we're here wasn't to avenge what happened in football but to try to win a state championship.

Kevin Gibson

The Thais have taken this on as their own, and in fact they believe it is Thailand's record -- which the internationals have come here to help them set. That idea is not far from the way the team feels: there is a very loving relationship with the Thai people.

Ryan Franklin

The testing has to be flawed. ...I don't believe it.

Doug Rockel

The tender offer tells me a lot of ups employees are incredibly loyal, that they believe in the company long-term. But I think there could be some selling of shares and until that overhang is taken up through higher demand, it will put pressure on the stock.

Cameron Crowe

The thing was always, as every story you write has a built-in problem, was: Was it too personal. That was the thing I wondered about for a long time. Oddly enough, it's often the personal stuff that people come up to you later and say about it, 'I can't believe you put that in a movie. That happened to me.' And sometimes, the thing that you make up happened to no one.

Mike Sanford

The thing that is great about it is that last week, after Sergio missed that extra point, he could have very easily gone into the tank. But he didn't. We all believe in him. He's a great kicker. And he's going to win a lot of other games for us this year.

Travis Williams

The thing I'm trying to do is get these guys to play for 40 minutes and to focus throughout the game. I'm trying to get them to believe in themselves. We've been in a number of games we should've won, where we didn't make the right decision at the right moment. The regular season is over, the tournament is what matters. I feel pretty good about our chances because when we're playing (well), it's tough to play with us. The way we're playing, we can play with anybody.

Andrew Symonds

The thing I can't believe is they must have rigged the voting, how can you keep up with him, Mr Cricket.

Mike Birbiglia

The thing about storytelling is it's very stripped down; it's very much at the core of 'I'm a person and I'm just telling you this thing, and I need you to trust me and believe that what I'm saying is true, and if you believe that what I'm saying is true then we are connected to each other.' I think there's something really beautiful about that.

Terrence Williams

I've never been in a situation where you look up and it's 35-5 or 36-5. It wasn't really a nightmare, it was just like I couldn't believe I was in a position like that.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Mike Burgess

People can register the day of the race, but it's like anything else. You have to stand in line. It's always best to pre-register.

Kevin Pittsnogle

Of course, we're a different team when Mike is out there because he's one of our best players.

Matt Moore

Often when discussions of teacher salaries are going on, people are comparing themselves to the national average, ... We're suggesting that might not be the best comparison. People in other cities might be paying more for housing and food, and their dollars might not go as far.

Dr. Bloom

Oftentimes it's best for the patient to do what's more comfortable for her.

Darin Strauss

Often it's the people who know a place least well who write about it best because they see it fresh.

Fred Hartsfield

No question, Woodland and Elmwood have the best talent. But you better bring your 'A' game every night in this conference. If you don't, you will get beat.

Jack Parker

No question in my mind, he saved his best year for his senior year. He's got a good chance of making All-American the way he's going.

Jerome Bettis

No question. I felt, a couple of those years, we had the best team, that was the sad part. All three years, I felt we had the better team (better than the three eventual Super Bowl winners).

Charles Schumer

The states have a total of $80 billion in deficit spending. What are they going to have to do? Well, they are either going to have to cut programs, which will drag the economy down, or they are going to have to raise taxes, which will drag the economy down.

The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much, but he felt it was better than what everybody else did, which was go up to the volcano and collect the gold nuggets it shot out every day. It turned out he was right. After forty years, the volcano petered out. Everybody left town, and the hardware store went broke. Finally he decided to collect gold nuggets too, but there weren't many left by then. Plus, he broke his leg and the doctor's bills were real high.

Gordon Sinclair

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.

P. J. O'Rourke

When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital.

Lindsey Graham

The transportation and the energy bill would have been a good place to go back and revisit for some of the spending that occurred there.

Saxby Chambliss

Let me be clear -- the Congress will be writing the next farm bill in 2007 and I am deeply concerned the (Bush) administration is using the current negotiations to reshape farm policy without the full input of Congress and grassroots support,

Octavio Dotel

One thing Billy taught me is to know how to handle the situation. I learned how to handle the situation, ... It's hard to know how to handle it.

Dick Morris

Is Bill Clinton serving as a lobbyist and public-relations guru to the government of Dubai? It sure looks like it.

J. K. Rowling

Bill, don’t look at me — I’m ’ideous.

Robert Franek

New College is a very specific kind of school that offers a small, private school feel at a state college price. It is an uncommon place and could be just the right place for the right student.

Matt Jackson

Ontario college students are frustrated and furious this evening that their post-secondary education is being disrupted by a province-wide faculty strike.

Pope Benedict

On March 24 I will hold a consistory, for which I will nominate the new members of the College of Cardinals.

Alan Cohen

I am sad. It's like seeing my oldest son go off to college. I know he is ready for the world, but I still worry.

Mike Preston

But this decision is not a good trend for a college town. There should be some opportunity for those under 21 to socialize and dance.

Bob Stoops

But there are other parts of what we do here as college students and on a college team that also need to be fulfilled.

Michael Adams

But generally, I'd say we're a microcosm of the college prep kids in the state. I think the current representation is fine.

Brian Boland

Baylor has been tested. They have enjoyed tremendous college success.

Harvey Leeds

Imagine graduating and your job is to hang out on college campuses, where people who work for you are getting people excited about music. I said, 'You're going to pay me to do that?' It was the greatest job, never having to grow up.

Baha'u'llah

Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind.

Edward Said

To say that we're going to end countries or eradicate terrorism, and that it's a long war over many years, with many different instruments, suggests a much more complex and drawn-out conflict for which, I think, most Americans aren't prepared.

Robbie Robertson

Cowboys had guitars. And they sang country 'cause they lived in the country.

A.J. Ellison

Cross country was something that started off as a punishment from my father for low grades. I guess he didn't realize it would take off so well. It gave me something to do with my free time and it taught me to be accountable.

George Strait

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life... I like to be outdoors, I like to hunt, I like to fish, I like to play golf.

George Tenet

another five years to have the kind of clandestine service our country needs.

Jerry Leiber

Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful.

Glenn Tipton

Each country has its own character, but heavy metal fans all over the world have a lot in common. It's fantastic.

Jon Lovitz

First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's a false statistic. There's nobody that is wealthy saying, let's go get the people that aren't. First of all, there's no versus. He's creating a false class warfare in a country where there is no class structure.

Hayao Miyazaki

When I start creating a villain, I start liking the villain and so the villain is not really evil.

Hannah Arendt

Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.

Gerhard Richter

Painting is the making of an analogy for something non-visual and incomprehensible - giving it form and bringing it within reach. And that is why good paintings are incomprehensible. Creating the incomprehensible has absolutely nothing to do with turning out any old bunkum, because bunkum is always comprehensible.

Harold Rosenberg

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.

Jean Nouvel

Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can make a masterpiece or cause a disaster.

Jenny Lawson

I was having problems with depression and anxiety disorder, and it felt like not blogging about it was creating a false history. When I did finally share the problems I was having, I was shocked - not only by the support that was given to me, but also by the incredible amount of people who admitted they struggled with the same thing.

Frank Herbert

A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation

Jessi Colter

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

Howard Schultz

On balance, I am a supporter of the minimum wage going up. We've got to be very careful what we wish for because some employers - and there could be a lot of them - will be scared away from hiring new people or creating incremental hours for part-time people as a result of that wage going up.

James Maloney

Once on-set hits, their life span is extremely short; one day to seven days,

Howard Strong

It's really very tricky. They have all these sneaky conditions. You need to be extremely cautious.

Terry Ryan

It's been an extremely rare year where you saw very little movement, ... I don't have an explanation for it. It was just one of those years where people didn't want to move players. I don't know if it was because more teams were in it, or what.

Tim Branham

Danville just outplayed us from the tip. They had a great game plan and played extremely well in all phases.

Justin King

Donnie is so smooth and laid-back, and at the same time he plays extremely hard. He gives that vibe to everyone else ... Nobody can get too rattled with him back there.

Brooke McAfee

It's nice to go home, and it's a huge game so I'm very excited. We're extremely happy to be where we are.

Alan Turner

It's been very demanding, very tiring, very stressful, but in the end extremely rewarding,

Ken Martin

It's been extremely tough. We usually have three teams - ninth grade, junior varsity and varsity. We don't all fit on the court.

Herb Thomas

It must be said that all entrants were extremely talented, and there were no losers at this event.

Kobe Bryant

We are on a journey, and to put on a show like this for the fans here in L.A. is truly something special. I grew up in front of these people, and now they are seeing me as an older, young man.

Bobby Jenks

It was like silence, and then the next pitch, 5,000 fans were yelling all at once.

Lil' Kim

I love reinventing my music and myself as well, and that's something my fans love about me.

Lady Gaga

I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.

Juicy J

I love performing, signing autographs, taking 'selfies' with the fans. This is just what I feel like I was born to do.

Emily Kinney

Be patient and loving with yourself. You weren't meant to be your biggest critic, but your biggest fan.

Elvis Presley

Take care of the fans and they will sure as hell take care of you.

Jonathan Davis

I'm a big David Lynch fan.

Kate Beckinsale

I'm a fan of action movies.

Dave Peterson

It would be great to have water from Tiber reservoir,

Reuben Droughns

It would be great to get that tradition back and get it going again,

Robert Gibbons

It would be great if we had the HOT to Massaponax,

Paul Farmer

It would be great if people would acknowledge that the state of Haiti was because of the resources we took away.

Jim Adkins

It would be great if it could stay in Pasadena. Part of the proceeds from the sign will go to LIPS, that's Ladies Into Purchasing Stock.

Fifi Camara

It would be great if I could play for New York. Whatever happens at this point, I'm not going to regret anything.

Willie Roaf

It would be great for me to be a part of Larry Johnson rushing for 2,000 yards, at this time in my career. That's something I never imagined being a part of, and that would be exciting.

Aurelio Rodriguez

It wouldn't be a shock if Portugal won because is a great team,

Richard McMillan

It would have been great to have Stephen here, ... It would have put Pittsburgh on the map. He's the one it was fashioned for.

Brad Friedel

Being a goalkeeper gives you quite a unique perspective on things. You are part of a team yet somehow separate; there are no grey areas, with success or failure being measured in real time; and you have a physical job which you can only do well by paying attention to your mental well-being. A great goalkeeper has to have the keys to a great mindset. To be able to work well in the box, I believe you have to be able to think outside the box

Bill Hicks

How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the f-k? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?

Barack Obama

Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

Rick Pitino

I'd tell any coach not to move for money... Stay at your job if you're really happy.

Angela Jackson

To be honest, when I first took the job (at Lamar Christian), I didn't think about winning. I wanted to get a different look on life.

Dan Hartleb

We did a poor job out of the bullpen.

Kelly Cooper

We did a nice job of getting him some open looks.

E. O. Wilson

We did a nice job controlling the boards.

Jeff Boogaart

We did a much better job defensively this time.

Seth Godin

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

Sojourner Truth

It is the mind that makes the body.

Sofia Vergara

I'm fearless, I don't complain. Even when horrible things happen to me, I go on.

John Quincy Adams

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

Norman Cousins

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Norman Cousins

Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions

Mitch Albom

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

Mitch Albom

In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word "divorce" came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant "divide." In truth, it comes from "divertere," which means "to divert." I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions about your mother's girdle and whether she should marry someone else.

Miguel de Cervantes

When one door is shut, another opens.

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Micah Rasmussen

We're just going to let the governor's statement stand.

Gary Fischer

If they make the state meet, it could be fun.