Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Adrien

I was just battling. The last couple of games I wasn't battling and I kept thinking about it. All I wanted to do was play like it might be the last game of the year and that's what I tried to do.

Jennie Finch

I was just battling the at-bat before. I wasn't being patient or selective. I was a little too aggressive.

Bruce Bochy

He didn't have a full tank. It's tough to pitch when you're not at full strength. He's still battling this thing. He hasn't gained all of his weight back.

John Glover

He kept battling them. He didn't throw a lot of strikes but he got some big outs.

Holly Vlymen

Green has stepped up big time for us. She has called some great games and has also done tremendous at the plate. She was a walk-on in the fall and I didn't know what to expect out of her but she's done very well in stepping in for (junior catcher) Erin Zeller, who has been battling a shoulder injury.

Cynthia Zea

There are still a couple of spots people are battling for. It's still very, very early. It's a matter of getting experience.

Milt Travis

He's a great post-up player. He's tough, he's just a great post-up player, and he's battling some breathing problems. He's got asthma; if he could go all the time it would be a lot better for us. He couldn't play as much as we wanted him tonight, and that hurt us.

John Currie

He's definitely the toughest kid on the team, and, you know, he won't let you know about it. He's not moping around, he's not complaining or whining about any type of injury. He's injured all the time pretty much and he's really been toughing it out. All of last year, we find out now that he was battling through all this stuff.

Cameron Rast

I thought both teams battled hard for the entire 95 minutes. Saint Mary's is a good team that is battling for results and whenever Santa Clara and Saint Mary's play in anything, you know it is going to be a very competitive contest.

Todd Jones

I was lucky to get a couple by him. Because he's a pretty deadly hitter.

Max von Sydow

I was in such a hurry to be an actor. Now I'm sometimes mad at myself that I didn't stop and study for a couple of years.

Amber Bacon

Knowing we only have eight players, we have to take it up a couple of notches. But I think that will help the team a little more. We just have to fight through our (losing) streak and keep our energy high.

John Hepperle

Kim pitched well. They started to getting to her later in the game, and we had an error in the third inning. If we can get out of the inning without an error, we give up maybe a couple runs instead of five.

Jeff Woods

Kirsten definitely was a hard worker and team leader. We didn't do much recruiting my first couple of years here and she helped keep the team together.

Shawn Chacon

I wouldn't say I needed it desperately. But after struggling the first couple of times you put more pressure on yourself.

Larry Beinfest

I wouldn't rule anything out. But we've done that a couple of years and it really ties up your roster. That was with a very set team. It didn't hurt us, but it really limits your options on the bench.

Geoff Smith

Jack is known for deciding the time has come for a change. His general philosophy is, if we don't get a couple things better, we're going to have a couple drivers miss out on the Chase.

Billy Beane

Kenny called me a couple days ago in Phoenix, ... He gave me a call.It took a lot for him to pick up the phone.

E. Hicks

I wouldn't say it was a competition. We always pushed each other, whether I messed up or he messed up. It really didn't matter who started. We were working together.

Bill Freeman

Just patriotism, ... No matter what went down, we were supporting our own nation and land.

David Eckstein

Just stepping to the plate, just understanding it's you vs. him, that's all that really mattered at that point.

Greg Puhalski

He didn't play too badly. It's just a matter of getting a little rust off.

Doug Miller

He comes up with a lot of big plays no matter where you put him.

Sally Field

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Sloane Crosley

Going to a museum is one of those inexplicably tiring things. You're not actually doing anything, more shifting your weight from room to room than walking. And yet it is one of the more tiring things one can do, no matter how thrilled you are by the exhibits.

David Peterson

He's always been that way, ... It don't matter if he's playing ping-pong or throwing marbles. He wants to win.

Brian Beckwith

His success is all to him. It's all a matter of how he thinks each night and how he prepares for each game.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Carlisle Floyd

I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.

Travis Bradberry

Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Sally Quinn

I would say I think it's about time. People have a tendency to think that entertaining in Washington politically and diplomatically is frivolous, but it is not. It is part of the work.

Karen Russell

I wrote 'Ava Wrestles the Alligator' when I was 22 or 23. These people and that world have been evolving in me for a while. It's such a shift not to be in that world.

Jason Robert Brown

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Zeke Jones

I think in some spots we competed well and there were some spots where we could have done a little better.

Zach Braff

Women are like parking spots, the best ones are handicapped.

Mark Twain

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

Denny Green

Some spots you have to be a starter or it doesn't work,

James Lind

They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees.

Archibald MacLeish

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.

Brad Thor

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

Bruce Montgomery

Different VCs have different sweet spots for where they want to invest.

Neil Diamond

I'm not really comfortable in any one spot.