Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Black

John has been one of our leaders this year. He stays steady from a 38 to a 40 all year. Our number two is Drew Waldrop, who is averaging a 39 or 40. He is just joining us back from the baseball team.

Alan Trammel

Guerrero is not human. He is an incredible baseball player. There is now way you can pitch to him.

Brad Arnsberg

The only thing that bothered him a little bit is when they had him skip, just to put all the weight on it. That didn't go as well as he was hoping, but everything else was right up to par. ... As he said, 'When am I ever going to skip on the baseball field?'

David Montgomery

His record of success is outstanding and I believe that Pat is the right person to lead our baseball operations. I'm very excited that he has decided to join us, and I look forward to working with him.

Yoshihiko Miyauchi

His presence was invaluable, not just for the team, but for baseball itself.

Luis Alicea

His velocity was still good. I thought it was a dominating performance. He showed a good fastball with good angles; his breaking ball was devastating, and I thought he showed a real good change-up.

Brian Jordan

Hockey is hot again. February is off to a good start, too. And we haven't even really got into baseball, softball and golf sales yet.

Todd Jones

I think it's more festive and I think it's more of a celebration that winter's over. Baseball season's here, which means summer's here and it's going to warm up. It's more than just a baseball game, I think, in Detroit, more than any other city I've been in. It's like a celebration that the freezing weather's out of the way for the most part.

Dusty Baker

It is a little strange to be watching baseball that counts at this time of year. I know our guys are really excited.

Monica Johnson

God is looking for clean hands and a pure heart.

Paul Gillis

I think it's going to do a lot of good for the city. I think that it's going to help out by cleaning up the houses, some of the streets.

R. Inge

I think it's great. I'm glad they're cleaning up the sport. I don't like it that anything can be tainted with an illegal substance. It's just going to make the playing field a little more level.

Paul Rothstein

It is a big message to Washington officials that if you only would come clean you would probably be OK.

Tracy Bowen

It isn't getting better. We just keep cleaning it up every year.

Patrick Brady

If we could come up with a technology that works like that, at even a fraction of that level, the cost to clean water would come down dramatically.

Atharva Veda

I have conquered and cleaned thee out (?); I have also gained thy reserve. As the wolf plucks to pieces the sheep, thus do I pluck thy winnings.

Slim Whitman

I'd like the people to remember me as having a good voice and a clean suit.

Sen. Lundby

I'd like to see clean water in my lifetime.

Gary Hatch

He's been one of my hall of fame guys. Stephen worked his tail off to become a starter. It didn't happen until his senior year.

Jerry Colangelo

He was looking though the glass at the photos that were up on the wall in their hall of fame. He said, 'Dad, I want to come here and do what you did to follow you.' I said, 'No, Bryan. That was my life. You're going to have to live your own life.

Patty Griffin

Fame is a can of worms I haven't really had to contend with.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poet's food is love and fame.

Helen Vendler

There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

John Dryden

Deathless laurel is the victor's due.

Gil Brandt

When you say 47 percent out of the first 10 picks made the Hall of Fame, that's a high percentage.

Bob Marley

I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me.

Ryne Sandberg

With those numbers that he has, those plateaus, that's Hall of Fame right there. As far as I'm concerned, he's in on the first ballot.

Foxy Brown

Jacki-O proved you far from a fighter/ ... I'm not gonna come at you, I'm gonna come at your ghost writer.

Joe Gibbs

I take responsibility for all of it. It all rests with me. We don't have to look real far to find somebody. I'm to blame.

Vincent Lecavalier

I think we're far away from each other.

Ike Nwaelele

I think we've had a good ride so far and we want to keep it going. I think our team showed a lot of heart by (playing hard).

Ira Black

I think what we're all learning now is that stem cells, regardless of source, are simply far more flexible and consequently far more useful than we had ever dreamt,

John Mathews

I think what people want to know is does Toyota get it when it comes to trucks. The answer, as far as I am concerned, is a resounding yes.

Scott Bowers

I think at times we forget how young he is. (Tuesday) and up in Orlando on Friday he was by far one of the better players on the field for us and for the other team.

Carol Potter

I think as far as marathons go, we are the 'Rookie of the Year,'

Mayer Morganroth

I think as far as he's concerned, he thinks that what he did was proper. He knew the risks, and in order to move the process, he took the risks.

Dave Clark

He's a big kid, but he has great reflexes. He can come out of goal. He has great hands and a solid goal kick.

Brian Henderson

I think it's a realistic goal for us, too.

Mike Thibault

I think the maturity of going through last hear helps us. We need to come out and get ready to go right away. We've been through it now two years in a row. This is our goal when we started out and now we're here to go about it.

Bill Donabedian

We're on track to hit our goal of 50,000 people.

Marian Gaborik

We've got to try to find more ugly goals out there.

Mike Ryn

We've got to score some goals on the power play. That's part of the reason we were winning; we were getting a goal here and a goal there.

Bobby Clark

I think at the moment he's just been establishing himself as the goalkeeper, now he has got to become a leader, ... I think its really important that a goalkeeper does become a leader in the backfield and I think it's something he's starting to realize and something he's really starting to work on.

John Ashcroft

It is our goal to return parts of the Iraqi people's past. In doing so, we hope to return pieces of the Iraqi people's future.

Christy Setzer

It is our goal to hold him accountable. He's (in) leadership, and he's also been in office a very long time with minimal opposition.

Richelle Mead

Right. Because there’s no bigger sign of commitment than a Halloween dance

Daryl Hall

I'm not a big fan of any video, especially my own. In a word, I hated the Hall & Oates videos.

Dale Petroskey

This is a historic day at the Hall of Fame. I hoped that someday there would be a woman in the Hall. It's a pretty proud moment.

John Gallagher

It's like running into each other in the hall or seeing other people at the library,

Kary Mullis

The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me.

John Kendrick Bangs

Bring forth the raisins and the nuts- Tonight All-Hallows' Spectre struts Along the moonlit way.

Joss Whedon

Willow: (on her Halloween costume): I'm Joan of Arc. I figured we had a lot in common, seeing as how I was almost burned at the stake. And plus she had that close relationship with God. " Xander: [to Oz] And you are...? [Oz shows a name tag that says 'GOD'] Xander: Of course. Wish I'd thought of that before I put down my deposit. I could've been God. Oz: Blasphemer.

Lewis Black

The worst thing about Halloween is, of course, candy corn. It's unbelievable to me. Candy corn is the only candy in the history of America that's never been advertised. And there's a reason. All of the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911. And so, since nobody eats that stuff, every year there's a ton of it left over.

Maria Mitchell

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Bud Keene

Kelly really pushed the limits of women's riding by going huge and super technical.

Doc Scheppler

Just returning to the team was a huge lift for us.

Mike Szabo

He just stepped up and made a play. That was a huge play.

Sven Eriksson

He seems like a different player and very mature in his way of playing. He's a huge talent and has been doing very well for us

Zell Miller

His passing leaves a huge vacuum of leadership that no one individual can ever fill, ... There will never be another like him.

Mustafa Alani

His organization is going to be under pressure. He's anticipating a huge challenge, not from the Americans but inside Iraq.

Tom Penders

I think it's huge for the league. We still feel we're still at least a three-bid league.

Donna Davis

It is a huge milestone because if you don't have enough signatures you'd have to start from scratch, as I understand.

Robin Pingeton

I thought Brooke was the difference. She had a little stretch in about 30 seconds that was huge for our team.

Jeff Garcia

I am going to do everything that I can to maintain my physical strength, maintain my physical conditioning. I'll even sit on my butt and throw the football, just so I can keep that motion intact.

Robert Venturi

Main Street is almost alright.

Kip Winger

Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!

Carlos Ghosn

Our objective is to maintain the successful momentum of the team.

Tanya Lysacek

Our main role is to be supportive caregivers and parents.

Richard Goodfellow

Our main priority is to get our staff working, and that is what we are seeking to do.

E. B. White

Our main goal, obviously, was to get sanctioned in Nevada,

Nicky Hilton

Our main demographic is 12 (years old) to 30 (years old), but I've had women in their 50s come to my signing wearing pieces from the collection.

John Mueller

His main pitch will be that you're safer with us than with the other guys.

Richard Madden

I was at a rough high school where admitting you were an actor didn't go down well.

Ronnie Dunn

I went to 13 schools in 12 years. We moved all over the place. Music was the only thing that I could get behind... I wasn't that good at socializing. I'm still not.

Umberto Eco

The west has decided to channel money and effort into studying other customs and practices, but no one has really given other people the chance to study western customs and practices, except at schools maintained by white expatriates, or by allowing the rich from other cultures to study in Oxford or Paris. What happens then is that they return home to organise fundamentalist movements, because they feel solidarity with those of their compatriots who lack the opportunity for such education.

Tyler Hilton

Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.

Tyler Blackburn

I was kind of a floater [in high school]. I got along with different types of people but I just was not cool, and definitely a late bloomer.

Tyler Oakley

I came from a pretty accepting community, and my school had a lot of openly gay and LGBT-plus people. When I joined YouTube, I saw a lot more hostility than I saw in my everyday life.

Tre Cool

I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.

Travis Barker

And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.

Travis Barker

My chops are still up, even though I`m not still in high school.

Richard Petty

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Richard P. Feynman

Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.

Retief Goosen

You can't really measure your game. You can shoot seven under and lose and you can shoot even and win.

Rick Cook

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Woodrow Wilson

I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.

Woody Allen

I have no regard for that kind of ceremony. I just don't think they know what they're doing. When you see who wins those things-or who doesn't win them-you can see how meaningless this Oscar thing is.

Woody Allen

You'll find as you go through life that great depth and smoldering sensuality don't always win.

William J. Clinton

If ever there comes a time when everyone you vote for wins and they do everything you think they should do, there will still be a gap between what is and what ought to be.

Will Ferrell

I’m just a big, hairy, American winning machine!

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.