Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Valentine

Rule No. 1 is you don't make the third out at third base with Mike Piazza coming up.

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.

Richard Ross

With growing demand and limited near-term increases in supply, we believe the long-term fundamentals for base metals are excellent.

Marty Collins

With regard to golf, 50 percent of new vehicle buyers are golf fans, and 33 percent of our customer base is golfers or people who follow golf actively.

Bruce Armstrong

With record breaking attendance, this year's user conference reflects the satisfaction of our customers and our leadership in the market. It's also indicative of our commitment to customer input as a critical channel for product feedback, ... With the merger of ServiceWare and Kanisa, Knova Discovery 2005 offers an exciting opportunity to bring our large customer base and partner network together for the first time. We look forward to an excellent event.

Felipe Alou

You guys knew the base was open. I knew it, too.

Matt Barnes

The pitch before (the base hit) I took it. The next pitch looked like the size of a beach ball.

Shoeless Joe Jackson

When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit.

Andrea Walker

We?re taking small steps but we?re creating a strong base to build on,

Bobby Carpenter

Seeing a lot of teams go to the 3-4, I think helps me. Looking around, it's tough to find a whole lot of guys who have the size and weight to play outside linebacker in the 3-4. You have to be a bigger, physical guy with good speed. That's something that's kind of a (rare) commodity in today's game. I think that's something I can bring to the table.

Ahmed Bedier

That's not what I'm suggesting! People in the community have a responsibility to bring tolerance. We have to learn to get along. ... You're a role model in the community. People will look to you as an example.

Derrick Mason

That's how you make your team better. You bring in somebody that's going to push the next man to work that much harder. Bringing a veteran in would be good.

Tank Williams

That's his thing. I can't really fault him for that. Derrick is an intense player. Whenever he makes a play he's going to try to bring that energy.

Sandra Shewry

A large part of our planning effort, and something we're putting a very high priority on this year, is working with our partners in the counties to document what capacity do we have to bring up our health-care delivery system, to exceed the capacities we have today. And to come back to the Legislature and to the governor and say this is where we see the gaps and these are the targeted changes we need.

Robin Foster

A little competition is great. It helps us grow, keeps us on our toes, and helps us provide better products. Bring it on, Starbucks. We can show you a thing or two.

Thomas Lee

A lie can take you to the end of the Earth but only the truth can bring you back.

Joe Johnston

All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the black-and-white text that's there in the script.

Gary Vest

You're wrong. It does exist, and I'll be happy to bring it back next month. We did get some job creation. I didn't bring my list, and I'm not prepared to talk about it tonight.

Rick Carlisle

Every point counts right now. I know David regrets what happened. We have to channel our emotional energy into emotional strength. That's got to be one our goals as we head down the stretch.

Chris Long

From Thursday through Monday, SPEED Channel takes the NASCAR fan through the entire race weekend in a very traditional way,

Chinua Achebe

There is something about important stories that is not just the message, but also the way that message is conveyed, the arrangement of the words, the felicity of the language. So it's really a balance between your commitment, whether it's political or economic or whatever, and your craft as an artist.

Bobby Carter

They (Terre Haute North) execute so well. To be able to win 14 games in the conference they play in (Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference) shows how good they are.

Matt Watson

You don't want to lose any conference games. We're just trying to get some wins in the conference. We're going to try to turn it around.

Sanjay Gupta

We want to take a much more proactive step and give our customers further peace of mind.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Competition is like experimentation in science, a discovery process, and it must rely on the self interest of producers, it must allow them to use their knowledge for their purposes, because nobody else possesses the information

Jim Campbell

At 47 or 48 feet we have no concern. We have a levee system that is in excellent condition. We feel very comfortable that we are not going to have any problems.

Sophie Kinsella

There is something exciting about saving up for a special treat. Bring back the piggy bank!

Terrence Gabriel

The Nasdaq has at least the Microsoft report to look forward to, which should be strong.

Lizzie Grubman

I'm looking forward to MTV viewers seeing the hard work and long hours it takes to run your own business. It's difficult, but it's also a ton of fun and there is nothing that I would rather do.

Randy Brown

I'm looking forward to it. It'll be a good opportunity for us.

Micky Arison

I'm looking forward to an interesting period. We have a lot of opportunities obviously for the league and a lot of challenges, and I look forward to working with the league office to help in any way I can.

Greg Jones

I'm looking forward to actually getting things done. This is going to be something that I think is going to be good; it's taking Student Government in a new direction.

Drew Miller

I'm looking forward it. It'll be a nice little break.

David Catania

I'm pleased that we were able to move forward on this important health issue.

Curtis Joseph

I'm just going to go home and see the family, I haven't seen them in a while. Certainly, there's a lot to look forward to this summer.

Michael Dixon

I'm just looking forward to the next challenge.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Dave Barry

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Al McGuire

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Al McGuire

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Chris Christie

I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.

Shari Brill

They need Thursday to be their strong night, ... Thursday was such a strong night for them so long that they used to get by without winning any other night of the week. The other networks used to roll over.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Richard Hatch

When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

Anderson Cooper

I just found it interesting to talk to adults I admired, and to discover that the path they took was never all that clearly defined. It was comforting to me when I figured out that you don't have to know what you want to do with your life; you just have to take a few steps in one direction, and other opportunities will open up.

Clay Aiken

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.

Daniel Dennett

Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman are as mythical as werewolves. By increasing the information we have about the various causes of the constraints that limit our current opportunities, he has increased our powers to avoid what we want to avoid, prevent what we want to prevent. Knowledge of the roles of our genes, and the genes of the other species around us, is not the enemy of human freedom, but one of its best friends.

David Mamet

Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags.

David Fincher

The thing is, that great actors are everywhere. They're everywhere. They're doing good parts on television. They're doing television commercials. They're doing local theater. There are so few opportunities.

David Fincher

I think title sequences are an opportunity to sort of set the stage or to get people thinking in different terms than maybe whatever they understand the movie to be going in.

David Copperfield

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

Beck

There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

Shelby Lynne

Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.

Ann Beattie

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

George Washington

The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed.