Famous Quotes & Sayings

Casey Stengel

I want to thank my parents for letting me play baseball. I'm thankful I had baseball knuckles and couldn't become a dentist...I got $2,100 a year when I started in the big league, and they get more money now. ...I chased the balls that Babe Ruth hit.

William Garrison

I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hand of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; -- but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD.

Maverick Golden

I loved the thrill of the race. I didn't lose very often. I won 35 out of 36 races in 1964. Drag News Magazine called me 'the Babe Ruth of drag racing' in January 1965. I was undefeated for two years or more.

Dick Cook

Ed and John are the Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth of animation. They both possess the balance that is needed, John being the creative fountain and Ed being not only the technological genius but a managerial one as well.

Bobby Crosby

It's impressive. Since I've been here he's started out slow. This year he's come out racking. I'm happy because I'm going to get pitches to hit. I'm hitting in front of Babe Ruth. I haven't seen that many balls hit that hard. I was standing on second base (on homer No. 2) and I thought it was doing to be a double. How that got out is beyond me.

Mike Lucibello's

I started in that league so I always helped out there. We've grown tremendously and I'm very proud of that. In this area, Babe Ruth has become the steppingstone to high school baseball.

Torii Hunter

They can say what they want, but there's no way they would launch an investigation unless Barry Bonds was not about to break Babe Ruth's record.

Brian Billick

It was like Babe Ruth pointing to the fence before the home run.

Jim Greene

It looks like Barry Bonds will pass Babe Ruth any day now. He only has five more pounds to go.

Jim Cummings

I take the work seriously. Which is why I always swing for the fences whenever I voice a character. But that said, I don't take myself all that seriously.

Jack Martin

He didn't keep any souvenirs of the bomb. He was given little pieces of metal from the fence after the time and took it home and put it on his mantelpiece.

Alan Young

Harper wants to mend fences with Bush. I think it's a mistake for the country, and I regret that it's happening after so much work has been done.

Ron Williams

We've gone from 280-foot fences at Island Grove to 320-foot fences on the new fields. That's going to take a pretty good jack to get one out of there.

Stephen Robison

I'm kind of mad at myself when I hit it in the air. If it's going to go over the fence it's OK, right ?

Ross Jones

The idea of a chain-link fence doesn't sit well.

Peter Wallace

The bishops' statement on mining is absurd. It sends all the wrong signals to investors. Those who were sitting on the fence will not be rushing in now.

Richard Knight

It was like if we don't hit it over the fence they were going to make the play.

Tony Campbell

This has been an on-going project for us to get the fence up for over a year. We finished the fence today.

Chris DiMarco

I would take 10-under and go home and see how it does.

Julie Buchanan

Kathy told me she honestly thought they'd be home in three days, so they didn't pack a lot.

Adam Braidwood

I take a lot of responsibility for it. I'm going to go home and look in the mirror. I don't think, my last two games, I've played up to my potential.

S. Walker

I actually had to do my homework to pass the time. It was horrible.

Vicki Bosley

He was a hometown hero, and Lorraine made sure everyone knew it.

Mark Baron

He wants match play, it's his hometown and it works for him.

Melinda Hyder

He wanted his cigarettes, his son - he told us he made enough money and didn't need it. He made us all promise we were going to vote for him. (She did.) I really think that he had planned on going home all day, but he was part of a four-person alliance, and they talked him into staying.

John Milton

He unobserved / Home to his mother's house private returned.

Harry Smith

He did not know it was coming. He's distraught. He had a whole plan to go home and resume a life with his family.

Domanick Davis

It's real frustrating, I'm not going to lie. We keep practicing so hard, then keep losing. We just have to find a way, we can't start pointing fingers.

Larry Harris

Then she starts pointing towards me and shooting and I was shooting back to her.

Tim Ritchey

That is the race I've been pointing for.

Peter Young

All the indicators are pointing in the right direction.

Sylvester Stallone

Now if you know what you're worth. Then go out and get what you're worth.

Rumi

I can't stop pointing to the beauty.

Claudio Piron

Overall, the long-term trend is going to worsen. All indicators are pointing to a possible recession.

Robert Barany

As soon as I had proved this and, of course, also the normal pointing action and reactions in all other extremities and joints, I stopped the experiment.

Ken Follett

In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.

Lou Holtz

Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times.

Tony Lazzeri

They didn't get along. Gehrig thought Ruth was a big-mouth, and Ruth thought Gehrig was cheap. They were both right.

Howard Rosenkrantz

The thing about Ruth jerseys is that there aren't very many of them. When one surfaces, you go for it.

Dodie Smith

Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.

Alice Sebold

Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.

Reggie Jackson

Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.

Chris Hedges

Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness.

Billy Graham

End of Construction. Thank you 'for your patience. " Inscription on Ruth Bell Graham's grave -- inspired hy a road sign she saw.