Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Ausmus

He's got the mental fortitude to block everything out and just focus on the hitter, focus on the task and then execute the pitch to get that hitter out. Andy would be my guy.

Jack Taylor

Today, Andy Quinn pitched a great game finally, and that's what he's capable of. He fell behind a few hitters, but he got stronger as he went on.

Lance Randall

I thought we out-toughed them by playing North's game. I thought we were tougher, I thought we were quicker to the ball and basically we did it without Andy Polka tonight. Other guys had big games. This is a big-game team.

Dean Goldfine

It got a little interesting out there, obviously. After the third set, when Andy sat down, I just said, 'Hey, there's a chance here they're going to bring out all the stops here in the fourth set. Just stay calm. I'll stay calm. Focus on your tennis.' Andy did a great job of that.

Jamie Murray

I'm 6ft 2in tall now but have yet to fill out completely and Andy has maybe got a bit of growing and filling out to do yet,

Lynne Black

The concept has always been to give Andy as much freedom as we can.

Jamie Baker

The goal here is simple: raise your world ranking. For the Scottish boys the whole mood has changed since Andy broke through. Suddenly it doesn't seem impossible.

Andrew J. West

I have had the opportunity to work with Andy Lincoln a lot. He's got a remarkable process. He just has these ways of sinking into the scene and into character that are very physical. He'll make these sounds and these grunts and these moans... I don't know what it is that he's channeling! It lets you know it's okay for you to do that, too.

Al Jourgensen

There's a famous artist, Ron English, in New York, that just, or Andy Warhol for that matter, that did pop art that terrorized society. And that's, for the last like 10, 15 years, that's all I wanted to do, is terrorize society and make them look into a mirror and see what the hell we have wrought.

Rick Tocchet

I would take a 3-0 lead every night. We didn't quit. Some guys think it's easy. It's hard to win. It's uncomfortable to win. I thought we were into it early and let Colorado off the hook. That's where your leadership takes over and you don't let it happen. In the end somebody has to go to the net. Somebody has to block a shot.

George Herbert Mead

Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.

Jason Dawson

Having them makes everything easier. They get us second-chance points, they block shots and they bring a lot of heart.

William Blake

He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what he Can't Percieve And he's a Fool who tries to make such a Blockhead believe.

Ahmad Dorsett

He's 6-8. It's expected for him to block shots. If he didn't block shots, something would be wrong. He's a great player.

Scott Wood

There is no favoritism when it comes to run blocking or running routes, ... If all I'm going to do is run-block ... as long as the team wins, I don't care.

Jay Frank

We've done small ones before, but this is a big part of the city. Our guys have gone through the course two or three times. They decide which streets to block off and what will work.

Brian Ferentz

I think any time you have both programs having a lot of success, there's going to be a lot of attention. It's going to be tough for players on both sides to block out all that attention.

Jon Klein

It gives us a four-hour block of real news and information, and you cannot find four hours that will make for a more satisfying meal than that on television.

Guillermo Diaz

It hurts, you know? At the end, we just didn't execute what we wanted to. They kept playing. They kept fighting. They're a good team, but it's disappointing, because we had the lead for most of the game.

E. O. Wilson

We just have to get it done no matter how long we're out there. Big plays can kill you, man. That's why you have to execute on every down. You do all that work, and then they hit a big play on you. That can't be how we do things.

Robert McCullum

I thought the last 3 or 4 minutes there in the first half is when things kind of got away. We had four or five consecutive possessions where we didn't execute well." ()

Rich Irr

I think it's the same every year. You have to play well, you have to execute on all fronts come the playoffs. I don't think it's any harder because you're trying to repeat or do it for the first time. You have to play well.

Rod Thorn

Lawrence has a track record here. Nobody works harder. He has terrific game plans. We just need to execute our plans better and play better. Lawrence can't go out and play for guys.

Bret Reedy

I just think offensively the whole night we weren't in sync. We took quick shots, we took long shots and we didn't execute defensively.

Paul Rybak

They were pretty hot to start the third quarter. They really execute well. They know what they want to do, and they go about it like a good team does.

Tasmin Mitchell

They were playing really good defense, and they were really moving in the zone, playing physical in the zone. We couldn't execute like we wanted to.

Randy Moore

They'll go all out, but they need to execute to be a successful team.

Ron Hutchins

John is a very pleasing young man to have. He's very focused on what he does. You'll see him moving up.

S. Walker

It all seems to be focused on him (Rodriguez).

Larry Hoff

Her scoring numbers are actually a little down from last year. Part of it is because we have other players who can score, but the main reason is that Jessi has focused on getting her teammates more involved.

Tony Anderson

I think that he has focused on regaining his sobriety.

Lee Humphrey

I think you just have to get used to it. You try to get as many shots in warm-ups and shoot-around the day before. When the game starts, you don't really think about the background. You focus on the basket, what you need to do to help your team win.

Benoit Allaire

I think you just focus day to day, week to week. He's been the first goalie in the past. He won't lose his focus. He'll play another 10 years in the NHL. Game-sharp is just puck after puck (in practice). Since his last game, he's done two hours each day on ice. I think it was a good spot on the road. Sometimes, when you've stayed out a long time, it's better on the road.

Dwane Casey

I think you have to have a focus on the road, a mental toughness on the road, that I think we're trying to find. That's the story of our season.

Mike Beall

I think you can see by the reaction of my girls. They know we're going to have to play them again. It's just another region game, just like the last one was. Just another region game. Our focus right now is Flagstaff next Tuesday on the road.

Brooke Smith

I think when you lose, you learn more from it. We'll probably take more out of this than if we'd won. If we'd won, we'd be happy, but we wouldn't focus on the things we didn't do well.

Erik Anderson

He is the strongest hitter in this program, and he has been for the last three years.

Ned Yost

He's going to be a 3, 4, 5 hitter throughout his career. He's not going to sit in the seventh spot. And I don't know if you've noticed lately but we haven't been winning too many games, so something's broke.

Ozzie Guillen

Hopefully we can get somebody who can run. I want a second hitter so we can put Iguchi down in the sixth or seventh spot to get more (run production) out of him.

Joe Mays

I like my friends to be the hitters. The pitchers, they all have the same brain as I do. The hitters see the game from a different perspective.

Steve Johnston

I'm interested to see if he's a pitcher only or a hitter only with the scouts.

Jim Edmonds

I'm going to be stubborn and stay on the ball. I was more of a pull hitter (last year). It's not the way I had approached things in the first 10 years, so I don't know why in my 11th and 12th years I started changing. ... Not this spring.

Kerry Wood

It's nice to get a hitter in there, just to have something in the box. I'm pleased with the way things are going. Today was another step. We got some hitters in there, and we're just progressing.

Jim Tracy

We know he's very capable. He has the pitches to get major-league hitters out.

Marlon Anderson

Zimmerman is a right-handed hitter and he may need a day off sometimes. Why not play a little third base? I'm a jack of all trades.

Jodie King

I am disappointed in how we played. I really think it's a mental block. We were so keyed up, we had a letdown.

Robert Ringer

You can never be free until you develop the mental strength to stop fretting over things you cannot control.

Robert Smithson

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

Mark Loretta

It's been a big roller-coaster ride, but that makes it that much sweeter. We've been through a lot of ups and downs. That's what perseverance and mental toughness are all about: how you respond to negative times.

Jeff Burton

It's very much a mental race but very physical at the same time.

Mark McKechnie

The 'warring tribes' mentality isn't working for them.

Bill Brewer

It's kind of like a mental game. You have to think about what you're doing.

Ray LaCroix

It just didn't come together for us this year for a variety of reasons. I don't think it had anything to do with ability, I think it was a lot of mental things more than anything else. It's the same things that have plagued us all year.

Linda Hamilton

I want to destigmatize the words mental illness.

Mike Frosco

His out pitch is a fastball. You have to have a third pitch at this level.

Brian Giles

We're one pitch away from being swept -- that's a big two-game swing,

John Flaherty

He's been pitching better, but tomorrow is going to be a big one. You don't want to say 'must win,' but we need this one tomorrow. Hopefully, he'll come out on top of his game.

Adam Everett

He was throwing every pitch for a strike, and he threw it at the right spot.

Buck Showalter

He had a blister that was heating up in the sixth inning. Hopefully, he'll get to the point where he can go another inning, but between the blister and his pitch count, we wanted to be careful.

Jason Varitek

He executed his pitches real well. If he pitches like that, he's going to win a lot of games.

Woody Williams

Other than two pitches, most of them were pretty much pitches I threw where I wanted to throw,

Rayner Noble

If you don't pitch, you're not going to win, and we didn't pitch well at all.

A.J. Pierzynski

In the end, our pitching was amazing. I don't know if you'll ever see it again.

Walter Cronkite

Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders.

Steve Davis

It's going to be a tough task as they are two very tough games,

Karl Marx

The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

Julia Gillard

If we change the way the electricity sector operates, we can bring down our levels of carbon pollution, and continue the crucial task of tackling climate change. Putting a price on carbon would do this.

Julia Quinn

And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit.

Peter Singer

Marx saw that capitalism is a wasteful, irrational system, a system which controls us when we should be controlling it. That insight is still valid; but we can now see that the construction of a free and equal society is a more difficult task than Marx realized.

Plutarch

It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.

Terry Eagleton

Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy us.The task of socialism is not to spur on those powers but to bring them under rational human control.

Terence McKenna

Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.