Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hideki Matsui

An event like the baseball classic is very important for baseball. This time of year is a very important time to prepare for the season. It was a very difficult decision for me, but I have no regrets.

Shairon Martis

As far as I'm concerned, I was very pleased with my performance today. For me it was special to do it in the World Baseball Classic.

Clint Hurdle

As far as production goes, it's at the bottom of his baseball card. But as far as leadership and the way he's rallied the team, it's at the top. This year has challenged him in a lot of different areas, made him stretch and grow in a lot of places and I think he has handled it well.

H. Hunt

As far as a baseball player's collection, a personal collection, it is easily unprecedented.

Robert Henderson

As a youngster, Kirby just loved to play the game of baseball. He wasn't as talented as a lot of the other kids we had in the program, but because he loved to play the game so much he worked hard and was very dedicated.

Thomas Morgan

As a child he spent all of his summers up there, playing baseball and swimming. He was on the first traveling team started in seventh grade, a football team known as the Bearcats.

Scott Easter

The boys today, they play little baseball outside organized practices and things like that.

Pat McMahon

Avery has worked extremely hard. We're just trying to create some offense. He has won an opportunity to play. He's a baseball player. He's the kind of guy I like to be around.

Damian Moss

At school, I was the only guy who played baseball. Everyone thought I was a little different. There are a lot of people who can play baseball out there.

Don Roberts

The bottom line is this: The worst mistake you can make is to do nothing. Either file a return or get an extension request in, but do it by the deadline. Sitting back and doing nothing is going to cost you a lot more if you owe taxes.

Erin Campbell

The bottom line is this should translate into a savings of several million dollars for the people of Vermont.

Mike Foster

The bottom line is this: it is difficult to understand how Louisiana rebuilds if its landscape is littered with the remains of over 200,000 unusable homes and business properties.

John Holub

The bottom line is this is an issue that should be between the employer and the employee.

O. J. Simpson

The bottom line is this: If we were investors in Macquarie stock, we would love this deal -- where can we buy it? But we're not. We are elected officials who are more concerned about protecting the people of this state than rushing into a very risky deal without all the facts.

Iqbal Athas

The bottom line is this -- for how long can the military remain restrained? That we are just around the corner from a major confrontation is not in doubt.

Robert Iger

The bottom line is they were not in tune with what their customers wanted and what the world was demanding of them and I think it hurt them significantly. I don't want to wake up and see all the traffic moving onto new platforms.

David Reid

The bottom line is they want to build 2,450 homes outside the city on sensitive lands. All the solar panels in the world don't make that environmentally friendly.

Greg Johnson

The bottom line is they want Eric to take a drastic cut and we don't feel his skills have diminished to justify that. It's just not going to work.

Jason Terry

We were down big and it was just real gutsy for us to be able to come back. We challenged ourselves in the huddle. We knew we hadn't played good 'D' at all, and for three quarters there we played lock-down, solid defense. That was huge, it was big for our confidence. That was our mission and our goal going into this trip, to win each game, and we did that.

Andy Jackson

We are going to continue to be challenged and we are looking forward to it. It's not easy. You want losing to be tough. But we've got to get over it when we go to Arkansas.

Rick Smith

We are going to be challenged in 2006 to get supply and demand back in alignment. We've got our work cut out for us.

Kim Bright

We challenged them before the game and I think they did a good job. We have always emphasized free throw shooting and today we were 14-for-18. That made a huge difference in the outcome of the game.

Kent Johnson

We challenged her at halftime. We told the girls to go to her inside, since it was a mismatch, and she responded greatly.

Bill Fennelly

We challenged Heather pretty hard in practice the other day, and to her credit she stepped in and made some huge shots.

Jerry Daugherty

Everything we do starts with our defense. I started to watch them stand around in the second quarter, so I just challenged them at halftime to dig deep down.

William A. Ward

The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain -- he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem -- he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Bob Swank

Levi, Clint and Zach held spots four through six and are running well. Calvin was our number seven and he will be challenged by the two freshmen.

Bill Day

Any future development of those three parcels is not spelled out within the 50-year vision. At this point in time, there is nothing as far as designation for any future development.

Scott Mathieson

An out's an out. It doesn't matter how far it goes.

Ann Cooper

As far as we know the military has conducted full investigations into only a handful of incidents and made public its reports on just two of them,

Virginia Kice

As far as we know, that's the largest single seizure of cocaine at the airport.

H. Hunt

As far as we know, it's the only meeting of its kind in the Treasure Valley.

Efraim Zuroff

As far as we know he is in Spain. There is speculation he might have left.

Paul Gallo

As far as we can understand when it comes to the blueberry, it comes to a harvesting of poop,

Paul Gallo

As far as we can understand when it comes to the blueberry, ... it comes to a harvesting of poop.

Tasnim Aslam

As far as we are concerned, we are prepared to open all five.

Oscar Wilde

As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.

Sarah Gellar

As a teen-ager growing up there weren't things to watch,

Jake Sinclair

As a kid growing up you watch those teams. Then you're there and think ?wow, this is amazing.' But then you have to go out there and play.

Greg Robinson

As a kid growing up (watching) Jim Brown, Ernie Davis, Larry Csonka and all the rest, you always knew about those guys,

Chuck Hill

The big thing hanging over the market is what kind of growth we're going to see in the second half of the year.

Eivind Reiten

a very important step in our growth strategy.

Mark Gertler

As long as productivity growth maintains its recent pattern, then I think he'll be in a nice position to maintain price stability and robust growth.

Hu Jintao

A sound and steadily growing China-US relationship not only serves the interests of our two peoples, but also contributes to peace, stability and development in the world,

Dave Loveland

That's where the majority of the growth is, so it's no surprise.

Camilo Villegas

You never know. I'm sure she's down about it. She's only 16 and she's going to keep learning. She's got a lot of pressure on her, but she handled herself well out there.

Scott Gernander

Even though we haven't seen a lot of it, I was a little disappointed at how we handled their press.

Steve Novak

We understand that any small thing like that needed to be seriously looked into. It was handled the right way.

Jason Terry

We'll sit back now and see what San Antonio and Sacramento do. We handled our business.

Tom Edwards

Two years of trying to win this race, it just didn't happen. We struggled in the conditions, they just handled it better than us.

Adam Schultz

We want to make sure things are handled appropriately and fairly.

Stew Morrill

Obviously, Nevada speaks for itself, a Top 25 team. They handled us pretty well in Logan. We played well the last time we were here. We've played pretty well in this building.

Rick Barnes

I didn't think inside we handled the pressure and the physicality of the play.

Donald Copeland

It is disappointing, but the way he's handled it shows what type of man he is. He's never made any of this about himself. For him, it's all about the team.

Michael Panzner

You normally don't find new leadership until you get washouts and corrections.

Babe Ruth

The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.

Arthur Ashe

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

Brian Tracy

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

Jan Schakowsky

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Carl Yastrzemski

I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.

Charles R. Swindoll

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Desiderius Erasmus

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

Jorge Torres

This is something that should not be on places of education.

John Duncan

Those two places in South Portland are significant bottlenecks.

Dr. Seuss

You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. Except when you don't. Because, sometimes, you won't.

Yotam Ottolenghi

There are tons of wonderful places to eat in London.

Adrian Smith

I get to fish a lot of wild and wonderful places on tour.

Margaret Turnbull

If TPF is not canceled, these are the places where we will search.

Lynsey Addario

Most people, when they meet me, one of the first things they say is, 'Why would you voluntarily subject yourself to war? Why would you go into these places where you know there's a risk of getting killed?'

Charlie Morgan

One of the things we stress is to make sure you are prepared. Do you have enough water? Do you have the right equipment? When we travel, there is a checklist of things, the type of places we stay in, for example.

Sam Bush

Of course, I wasn't old enough to get in these places back then,

Chakib Khelil

We think that we will keep production at the same level.

H. Hart

We are shooting for resuming the production in mid-September.

Sue Miller

Right now, we're stretched payday to payday, but we'll get it done.

Geno Auriemma

She's stretching it out. She does whatever she has to do.

Lewis Carroll

He taught us Drawling, Stretching and Fainting in Coils.

Mark Hendrickson

It was more important for me to get stretched out.

Brian O'Driscoll

A physical therapist does some unbelievable stretching with me.

William Reinsch

A year from now we're all going to be embarrassed by this.

Wade Taylor

A year ago I thought it was a done deal. I thought we weren't going to have a pool. I'm encouraged.

Trey Blue

I've always been able to score; this year I'm more of a playmaker who can score.

Ted Sim

The motels this year have been really accommodating for us.

Tim Franklin

The most important thing we've been this year is a symbol.

Matt Light

I've said that every year I've been here.

Kim Clijsters

It would make the year even more special,

David Richards

The way I went about it this year has been much better. The conversations we have had have been very good.

Tommy Tuberville

This is not going to be our most experienced year at quarterback,