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.

Bobby Robson

The first 90 minutes of the match are the most important.

John Lowery

We just need some good things to happen to our football team. That's what we need right now.

David Taylor

There are a lot more important things in football than an Olympic tournament and 2012 is a long way away,

Cristiano Ronaldo

I will never reject an autograph, hug or photo. I was also a fan of football.

Cristiano Ronaldo

I know who likes football likes me

Cristiano Ronaldo

I'm in love with football, but I just needed to recapture that strength to train and play. So many people helped me along the way that I'm afraid to leave anyone out. Above all, though, I want to mention the help of my medical team that has been working alongside me for the past two years.

Andy Gray

I was saying the other day, how often the most vulnerable area for goalies is between their legs.

Andy Gray

Carlos Tevez is so rich that when he retires he'll never have to play football again

Andy Cole

Shinji is a quality player but he is not the only one who is finding it hard to get regular football. There are many top players in the squad and there is plenty of competition.

Jack Kerouac

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

A.J. Pierzynski

Yeah, I got recognized more at home. That's for sure. People do, when you do some of the stuff that happened to me.

Mike Mastroianni

Yeah, but a lot of work went into this and this hasn't happened here in a while.

Clay Condit

Yeah, and this just happened to be the 666th. This was the number that was given.

Jim Hodges

There is a synchronicity: you start thinking about something and all of a sudden it's everywhere. It happened to me with the mirrors.

Frank Davis

This would not have happened if there were gates.

Fred Siegel

The question is, what happened between 10 o'clock this morning and 12:30? The statesmanlike option was there last night.

Laurent Gbagbo

We have always wanted sanctions after what has happened in Cote d'Ivoire,

Rebecca MacKinnon

Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolution have happened without pamphlets? Probably not. But neither printing presses nor pamphlets were the heroes of reform and revolution.

Marquis De Custine

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Mark Levin

He [the Statist] is unmoved by reason, evidence, and history.

Taylor Vichorek

For some reason OTs haven't treated us as well as we hoped.

Galileo Galilei

There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.

Eoin Colfer

That was all he said, except for "Aaaeerrgghhh." Which is not really a word. But the reason that he screamed "Aaaeerrgghhh" was that Franco had bitten him savegly on the wrist.

Eminem

Everything always happens for a reason.

Jay Asher

But they were wrong. There was a reason.

Kim Anderson

because there's never been a reason not to keep doing it.

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.

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Drew Brees

When you wake up, think about winning the day. Don't worry about a week or a month from now -- just think about one day at a time.

Drew Barrymore

I'm okay with the idea that slow and steady wins the race.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

Douglas Conant

Learning to celebrate success is a key component of learning how to win in the market.

Dorothy Hamill

I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.

Dontrelle Willis

Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.

Don Nelson

If we're gonna win, we have to play up to and beyond our potential.

Dwayne Johnson

What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.