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.

Rafael Palmeiro

I love baseball, and the door remains open.

Tobin Bell

All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I can do. That's what I do. I'm an actor. And all the rest of it is like baseball. You hit the ball. Sometimes it goes in the hole. Sometimes it goes to the player.

Sinclair Lewis

A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.

Norman Cousins

At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You don't think I'd be doing anything as foolish as this if I were ninety-five, do you?"

Mike Trout

I always dreamed of making it in baseball, but life has moved pretty quickly for me.

Mike Trout

I think people keep baseballs in their cars, just to be prepared in case they see me. It's cool to get recognized in public; it's an incredible feeling.

Neil Gaiman

Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap. "It means you give up your mortal existence to become a meme: something that lives forever in people's minds, like the tune of a nursery rhyme. It means that everyone gets to re-create you in their own minds. You barely have your own identity any more. Instead, you're a thousand aspects of what people need you to be. And everyone wants something different from you. Nothing is fixed, nothing is stable.

John Thorn

Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail.

If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like "Hey, look. He's carrying a soldering iron!" and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, "That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice." Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink.

K.C. Keeler

He went from being a kid we never thought was going to play varsity football to a kid who's one of your better, more dependable offensive linemen who can play at different positions because of injuries or because you want more athleticism. He gives us a lot of flexibility.

Octavio Dotel

I have to respect what they say, but I think I'll be in the game before June. It depends on how I do when I stay here after the season starts.

Bobby Robson

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

Morris Chestnut

My idea of a perfect holiday is spending time with the family, waking up on Christmas morning or Thanksgiving morning, watching football all day, having the family come over, people you haven't seen.

Michael Beasley

We had a lot of football players on the team then. Once we got out of football mode we started making strides.

Jimmy Henson

Wow, what a football game. Our kids stepped it up big time and made the big plays. They fought tooth and nail until the last kick.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Wilbert Hamilton

We are still having problems with the half court. We are trying to play a lot of people and I guess we are putting them in the wrong positions and just not getting that cohesiveness. We've got another game to try to get it right.

Fred Thompson

We did a much better job this game staying in it mentally,

Rob Salter

We did a good job of pushing the tempo. Even though we weren't on our A game defensively, we played well offensively.

Kevin Stallings

We did a good job of getting back in the game in the second half, but we ran out of gas. You have to play really well on the road to win in this league. We didn't and they did.

Michael Redd

We did a good job (in the second half). This is a game we had to have.

Bruce Bowen

We did a better job in the second half of the game tonight.

Chris Brady

We didn't play as we normally do tonight. (The Panthers) played an all-around good game tonight. They are a really hard team to defend.

Mickey Bounds

We didn't play as well as I had hoped we would. Last week and this week we made some mistakes that hurt us. We did work on getting some wide open shots in our spread offense. This game will help us on down the road.

Steve Wozniak

When you're providing a service to somebody, you're the guy they always call when something's wrong.

Steve Simmons

National coach John McKay has told me that it won't be easy but I want to make up for losing the 2003 Four Nations Tournament final here in the Kelvin Hall by beating this guy Santana.

Steve Mariucci

I've been a lucky guy.

Spike Lee

I'm not the go-to guy. Everybody is trying to tell their story and have different ways of telling it.

Silvia Colloca

I'm quite shy, so if there's a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can't speak to him. I get all red and sweaty, and it's embarrassing.

Sigourney Weaver

When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to help them.

Sigourney Weaver

Usually it's the guys that don't follow you around, who you're attracted to!

Shaun White

When I came back to skating, everyone was like 'Oh you're the snowboard guy.'

Shaun White

Generally, I'm a pretty mellow guy.