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.

Albert Pujols

I learned to play (baseball) on the streets in the Dominican Republic when I was 8 yrs old.

Albert Pujols

I try to spend as much time as possible with God and my family. That's more important than anything I'm doing in baseball.

Douglas MacArthur

Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb... he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.

Don Baylor

Don Baylor, New York Yankees DH, on Billy Martin and his predecessor Yogi Berra: Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.

Don Drysdale

Where do you want it?

Don Drysdale

I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it's over.

Dylan O'Brien

I love baseball - 'Moneyball' was my favorite book when I was 13.

Andrea Tantaros

The history of [Mariano] Rivera is pretty unbelievable. And even if you're not a Yankee or a baseball fan, you have to appreciate the tradition. He gets respect from Boston fans and Phillies fans, and I love tradition.

Bill Bradford

There have been a lot of people behind the scenes working on dinners, staging flowers and flags. They're also having trees come in, they're going to have a tree representing each campus, and then there's going to be a grove somewhere on the campus where the trees will be planted.

Sherwood Smith

What is interesting to me is looking at how male and female writers depict men who, come in behind to fill those domestic duties, deal with personal and cultural lack of respect for doing what is lingeringly perceived as 'women's work.'

Paul Takemoto

We got a late start, and we did fall behind early, but we have since made up that ground.

Nick Fry

We can now put the uncertainty of the past few months behind us and focus on the future, which looks very exciting indeed.

Stephen Richards

We want to deal with this up front, ... The goal is to be able to frame the size of the matter. These are historical financials from prior management; it has nothing to do with the current business. We look forward to getting this behind us.

Tommy Richardson

We were one step behind them as a defense.

Matt Smith

We just don't always play the best defense behind him.

M. Hopper

We knew if we kept it close, we would have a shot. We don't quit. We've been behind in close games before.

Andrew Engel

We knew if we got on top of them early, they wouldn't have the firepower to come back. It felt great tonight to have everyone behind us and all the fans screaming. I mean, everyone was playing well. We were supporting each other and playing hard. It just felt great tonight.

Rita Ora

I'd love to be the female Kanye. I think he's so cool and effortless.

Craig Roberts

I'd love to pop back into 'Being Human' as Adam. I love the character so much. I've never really played a character like that. I'm always playing the geek, so to play a kid who is very energetic when he wants to be, and who is always trying to get the girls, was really cool.

Jimmy Bennett

I'd like to tour all over the world. I'd like to be everywhere. I've really wanted to tour out of the country. I think that would be really cool.

Kevin Meadows

Ideally we'd like to see a nice cool-down, not too warm and windy, and then it doesn't really warm up until the tourists get here in June. It's tough to watch the water going by when there's no one in town to enjoy it.

Russell Crowe

I can handle this sort of thing ... But it is just not a cool thing to do to a little boy.

Mike Shula

He was very cool for a young guy playing. That was very, very encouraging. I felt very comfortable throughout the year.

Tim Hudson

He's cool, he eats like a pig. He looks like me -- no hair, a little peanut head.

James Blake

He says it is cool to see us play, but for me it is cool seeing him sell out MSG,

Aaron Sarra

He lost his cool. It was very unfortunate. But it had little to do with the outcome. Farmington wrestled better.

Bill Burton

This is a much larger field than it's been in the past. We have folks in that group who aren't necessarily with the national party on every single issue but do reflect the makeup of the congressional district.

Garron Whitehouse

There weren't a lot of hung heads as we walked off the field. It was a great game, we matched up well, but the kids understand that somebody has to win and somebody has to lose a good football game.

Carl Stewart

It's a way to get on the field, a way to help the team.

Cary Fukunaga

I think I have this field around me that makes electronics work bad. It's not like an entropy thing; it happens very quickly.

Duke of Wellington

I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

Karen Alexander

We played with no subs. We just had 11 girls on the field and I thought that they played really hard and pretty well right through to the end of the game.

Sue Vories

We played a lot of the game on our end of the field. That has a lot to do with our inexperience, but we're getting better.

Ron Allen

We played a lot better in the field. And all five pitchers we used threw well.

Jim Foster

We practice very intense and when it's game time the players go out on the field and do their job. The hardest we work is when we practice.

Bobby Valentine

Koga put him in the No. 1 spot last year, and he got hot after that. I thought I'd follow suit.

Aldous Huxley

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Michel de Montaigne

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

Michael Beasley

You always want to be remembered as one of the greats. We know the history and tradition of this program.

Voltaire

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Joshua Simmons

I love history. I'd like to find more about the history where I live at.

Nathaniel Philbrick

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

Leon Krier

Tiredness sets a natural limit to what a human being is prepared to walk daily, and this limit has taught man all through history the size of rural or urban communities.

Plato

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Sonia Sotomayor

It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.

Madhur Bhandarkar

For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.