Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johnny Damon

Normally, our bats will get us back in it, but that didn't happen today.

Allison Merzon

It was time for a rally, we turned our jackets inside out and from there our bats woke up.

Vinnie Currao

We've got a few guys who are swinging the bats really well. Hopefully, the hitting becomes contagious. We'd like to see some more guys contribute offensively.

Lewis Carroll

Do cats eat bats? - Do bats eat cats?

Cooper Farris

We did a great job competing at the plate. ... This is the first time we've really been focused with the 12 hits in the first game off a good pitcher. We just need to keep battling and putting good quality at bats up.

Rick Stanton

We did a fantastic job on defense today. We just have to get the bats going. Defensively, we can play with any team around.

Jim Gabella

We didn't pitch very well or play defense very well. We swung the bats a bit better but when you don't pitch well and don't take care of the baseball, you're not going to win many games.

Tom Slater

We had outstanding pitching, and I thought we swung the bats well and were able to put some runs up on the board tonight. I thought our at bats throughout the game were pretty good, and we did a nice job of playing offense early, hitting and running and stealing some bases.

Christi Wade

We weren't swinging the bats really well. Southern has a great pitching staff and probably the best hitting team they've had, and we held them to only eight hits all weekend.

Lauren Fix

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Kyle Lohse

I've been out there battling my butt off all year,

Joe Blanton

When I came up last year, we were battling them for a playoff spot just like we are now. Any time we play each other it's a big series and every game is right down to the last pitch, for the most part.

Paula Begoun

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Mike Burns

We had problems focusing in this game. Montana did a good job changing defenses and we did a good job battling through that in the first half. In the second half they did essentially the same thing, but they did it with more energy than we did.

Matt Barnes

What an effort by my kids. These kids kept battling and battling. We had a chance. We kinda showed what Olympus is all about. We've got a lot of character and heart. O We knew we were heavy underdogs coming in. We were under the radar, and we were one shot away from going to the championship.

Mark Clifford

Battling heat, the long preseason, continuing to lift weights, I think the kids are ready. I think mentally, we're ready.

Clay McCammon

I felt pretty good about leaving Scott in the final inning. He was really battling hard out there. Scott's going to give you everything he's got.

Dana Eveland

I felt like I had a cannon on my shoulder. But I had no control of it at all. It's just tough to have it happen, especially when I'm battling for a job.

Will Morgan

We're here, we're not polar opposites, we're not competing for the hold of the city.

Michael Collins

Either we have it or we don't find ourselves competing in the national convention market.

Merrill Stabile

We had a realistic proposal, but it's fruitless if public opinion favors a greater magnitude of scale in the competing projects. All three have a lot to offer. They have one thing in common: They're all on a larger scale.

Brad Coker

Every smoking referendum I've ever polled has passed and I don't think Nevada is any different. What's unique about Nevada is that there is controversy in having two competing smoking initiatives.

Rudy Giuliani

At this point there are several competing hypotheses for his illness, ... In other words, West Nile is not the only possibility.

John Thomas

At the time, seven feet didn't seem like a big deal because I was too wrapped up in competing to be able to look at what it meant. I had done it in practice indoors and out. Other people had done it outdoors in competition, too.

Jerry Sloan

We are still hanging in there, competing and finishing to the end.

Chris Meledandri

What I worry about the most is the competition for young eyeballs. We have so many other competing forms of media. I don't take any audience members for granted.

Aaron Lowe

We finished this last season on a high, making the Olympic team and competing at the world championships at home in Canada.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Michael Barrett

The one thing I like about this team is as great as it was, as fun as it was, there's no real celebrating what happened today. It means we're focused and moving on.

Tim McCutchen

It was the same press. We used the same press-breaker, but we didn't execute. We just were not as focused and ready to play as we were the first time." ()

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

John Shin

This is stronger than expected, the highest since spring of last year. But it's less important since it doesn't show anything about the impact of Katrina and everyone's focused on Katrina right now.

Adrian Jones

You're not really focused on the star, but the co-stars to see what they're doing to help the whole scene.

Paul Kenny

We held their offense to one touchdown in the first half. Things were looking good. In the second half, we lost our focus. We knew what we had to do to stop them and we would have stuck with them if we were focused in the second half.

John Steffensen

Everything I'm doing at the moment is focused towards the Commonwealth Games and running the sort of time which could help me win an individual medal.

Tana Umaga

We just had to stay focused on what we had to do,

Lorenzo Romar

That was a big win for us. I thought we played about as solid a game as we have played in a while.

Vladimir Radmanovic

Really, I don't think about it any more. I signed a one-year deal, ... My game is going to show what needs to be shown.

Kenyatta Walker

Really disappointed. Probably my worst game of the whole year.

Rickey Henderson

Our theory was get Eck in the game. You knew the game was over.

Sylvia Hatchell

Our team will be very motivated by the strength of our bracket. We'll use it as a positive to prepare for every game we play.

Ryan Howard

People are trying to play, they're not out there trying to mess up. That's just how the game goes sometimes. Somebody has to win and somebody has to lose and unfortunately we were on the losing end today. We know we're better than that.

Jason Giambi

People don't realize this game is not fair. I've seen some great players who, for whatever reason, never got the opportunity. To keep going back to Triple A, when you know in your heart you have nothing to prove there, it takes a special kid to do that.

Jim Tracy

Offensively, we did some great things. To get back in the game in the manner in which we did took some great at-bats.

Melanie Hall

Offensively, the team was very patient. Made good decisions. We played hard. We played smart. And we had fun. That was a big game for us.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Marc Guggenheim

As always, we start off with asking, 'What's a good episode?' We don't think about timing, and we don't think about logistics. We just think about what would be good.

J. J. Abrams

As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.

David Johansen

Arthur, be a good Latter-day Saint, do your job, and everything will be fine.

Stan Kroenke

Arsene Wenger is just an unbelievable manager. I think he's a tremendous person, and he is just as good as there is. You can't judge a manager on one game or on one stretch of games. You judge him over time.

Mark Johnson

The Buckeyes lose all their linebackers to graduation. So there is a good opportunity for me there.

John Purtteman

The big thing now is there were a lot of good pieces in place, and now it's keeping them on board. Tom did a great job.

Tom Izzo

The Big Ten's going to miss Dee Brown. He's good for this league. He doesn't talk it, he walks it.

Donald Rumsfeld

A very smart weapon, a good weapon might work 85 to 90 percent of the time. The rest of the time it doesn't work right. Now that's a very good percentage, ... But it means that there is one out of 10 that is not going to do what it was intended to do.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Scoville Jenkins

Rafael is a great player. This was a learning experience. He was what I expected, and a little more than I expected.

Ernie Harwell

Radio will always be with us because of its great portability. TV can't give you that.

Amity Gaige

Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.

Jarrod Cooper

Randy shows up to work every single day. I don't know what misconceptions people had (going into the season), probably the same ones I had, but he's a great leader, no nonsense, he shows up and plays.

Steve Rushing

Ramon is a great rider, but an even greater person,

Mark Recchi

Ray is a very smart player. Obviously he's got great talent, and we're hoping he's able to come back and make a difference.

Fred Couples

Really in all my years on Tour, in the U.S. Open I probably played great golf in two of them, out of maybe 20, so it's a lot of work.

Mark Twain

Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Brian Randle

Dee's a big-time player. He hits big-time shots.

Dan Shoemaker

Anything it hits that's cold, it's going to stick to it.

Calvin Brock

Sam is a very powerful, strong man, ... If he hits you, he hurts you. He can knock out any man on Earth. I can't see any man taking one of those big shots and standing up.

Don Watson

It was a long time coming, but Hinckley-Big Rock hits the win column.

Rashid Johnson

The way that light hits objects in life, three-dimensional objects before you photograph them, is really the story of photography.

William Petersen

That's how television works, you find something that hits and you mass produce it. I understand that. I just didn't want to do it myself.

Dean Treanor

You saw the team's reaction? Hoover comes in in the ninth and hits a walk-off piece.

Greg Sims

We're hitting the ball. Just not at the right times. We haven't been able to put together a combination of hits in the same inning.

Ken Bacon

(Even) if the interceptor hits the (mock warhead), it could still not be a successful integrated systems test because there could be other parts of the test that failed.

Lynn Johnston

After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do the things they could never afford to do. All the while, I never knew that my mother was socking money away.

Bobby Cox

Somebody's done a terrific job with that kid. He had a lot of pitches tonight, but they were quality. He had a purpose for every one of them. Looks like he knows what he's doing out there pretty well.

Christopher Shays

No. What I want you to do is do your job of coordination,

Christopher Shays

No. What I wanted you to do was do your job of coordinating,

Chris Shays

No, what I wanted you to do was do your job,

Evan Wood

Sometimes I just stop for a second and go 'Okay, 13 years old, you are in a job that some people would kill for, and you have a lot of stuff going for you and you are really lucky,'

Erik Youngs

(Teaching) is the most rewarding job I've ever had. When you're in this industry, it's in your blood.

Kerah Pearman

Sometimes, they're trying to do a better job of it now so, there's some in there now.

Scott Ishikawa

Safety at some point is going to have to take precedent over convenience, but that's some things we're going to have to take a look at, whether we can do the job without really hampering traffic or not.

Mike Pearson

We've been working on putting this in place for two years.

Joe Humasti

From tee to green, we're great. But our putting killed us. We really have to do a lot of work on our short game.

Dr. Wielgosz

It is as simple as putting a measuring tape around the waist. That will give an indication.

Henry Cotton

The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.

Bai Ling

What I like about being an actress is that it keeps you feminine. Being a director and producer makes you manly and very masculine and I don't like that quality in a woman. But I'll do it when the film is very close to me.

Greg Robinson

We're going to work; we're going to work hard. It's going to be quality work.

Cardinal Richelieu

Not the least of the qualities that go into the making of a great ruler is the ability of letting others serve him.

Anton Chekhov

Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.

Dean Koontz

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic....

Bob Dylan

I'm looking for a woman who's head is mixed up like mine.

Dennis Prager

The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage

Deng Xiaoping

We must firmly grasp management. Just making things isn't enough. We need to raise the quality.

Dieter Rams

Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

Goldie Hawn

The movie actually has a little more back story, more consequence, and I think it's more real actually for this time period.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.