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.

Gary Gibson

We've seen the last of those white traverse curtain rods.

John Flaherty

I thought Randy went back out there for a curtain call.

Billie Whitelaw

Death's not one of those things that frighten the life out of me. Getting up on stage with the curtain going up frightens me more.

Robert Frost

Tree at my window, window tree,/ My sash is lowered when night comes on;/ But let there never be curtain drawn/ Between you and me.

Robert Gottlieb

The Iron Curtain may be a thing of the past, but Mother Russia is as mysterious as ever.

Mark Richt

I would say you're running it up if you've got your first-team players in the game with five minutes to go and you're up by 40. If you're still throwing bombs, maybe that's running it up. I think it's the defense's job to slow people down anyway.

Don Waddell

Just think we're going to have this player for the next five years.

Ken Valiska

Jose has got phenomenal skills. He's got great moves with the ball, a really quick shot, he'll probably be one of our top five starters. I've been very impressed by him. He's a great player with a great attitude.

Peter Donovan

He was a full-time mortgage-broker and poker was a pursuit. He was doing about four or five hours a week, just like we would play tennis or watch TV.

Darren McCarty

Guys are always banged up. Guys are always playing with something, if not five or six things. It's just a way of life.

Jon Gruden

It comes down to a lot of things, really. Are you going to keep five or six? What can they do on special teams? We do feel pretty good about the progress we've seen in these young guys.

Gary Player

I thought when I get to 70, I would be sitting on the ranch and doing less, and I'm doing more. I would say, with all things equal, five more years.

Sir Greenstock

I think (the insurgency) has got at least five years of life, because there are men and there are materials.

Chris Quinn

What'd we lose, five in a row? In all my life, I don't think I've ever been on a team that lost five in a row, so just to get the winning taste back in my mouth is good.

Larry Finucane

I would say the pressure is on them (Mills). They're the #6 or #7 seed and have the game on their home court.

Joe Torre

Just win as many games as we can and see where that leaves us when it's over.

Joel Allen

Joe has gotten the most out of his senior season and his selection to the all-star game reflects that.

Brian Thornton

Josh did a great job tonight, but it's not just tonight. He's done well the last several games and in practice. When Josh is playing well, it gives us a lot of versatility. When Josh is hitting shots and doing a great job on the boards, it gives us a lot more options.

Byron Scott

I think it's a good thing for our team right now. If we can win games without Chris, I think it gives these guys even more confidence. And it also shows when he comes back that we'll even be better.

Bud Childers

I think it'll be an edge, but once the game gets going, I just think it comes down to playing ball.

Marcus Greer

It always helps to start out the game well. It set the tempo of the game, I think.

Lofa Tatupu

He was a helluva an athlete, ... If that's somebody they have on their practice squad, then you know the guy taking snaps in the game is the real deal.

Antawn Jamison

He didn't really look to look for his teammates as often as he did in the first two games. I think he really took this game personally and he wanted to really come out and play well.

Mike Trgovac

Definitely, I would. But until the league does something about it, they're within their rights to do what they're doing.

Bob Hartley

Right now, there's lots of unknowns and speculation. Let's let the league do their stuff.

Jim Boeheim

Scheduling is too much in this league for television and not enough for the players. It's very disheartening to look at scheduling and see that. Granted, TV's important, but it shouldn't run the league.

Pat Brisson

Savior is a big word. No one's a savior of the league at this point.

Jeff Fisher

I've played picnic stuff. I suppose I can get up to league standards with a little practice.

Paul Carter

It would be nice if we could win the league and one of the cups.

Tim Floyd

It would be tremendous for the league. Any league would like to have that type of win late.

Jud Wilson

These fellows in our league lie too much about their ages.

Jim Calhoun

I've been in the league 20 years, and this is the most competitive that it has ever been.

Daniel Breaker

I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.

Phil Goff

It is not within the power of the president to remove the prime minister other than on the vote of a majority of the house,

Alan Greenspan

Roger was the major policy maker during 9/11.

Waverly Person

It's a major earthquake, but it's quite a ways away from population,

Roberto Torres

The TRUTH sometimes scares people. In order to skirt the truth they start to major on the minors as opposed to majoring on the truth that is before them.

Harvey Pekar

I've just been writing stuff down as it comes to me. I haven't thought, 'Let me write some major opus here.'

Johnathan Frakes

No, I was a psychology major in college.

Tom Hudson

It's like putting someone out in space for the first time, ... It's not yet to the moon or to another planet, but it is a major milestone.

Pope Benedict XVI

Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

David Pickering

He is the right man at the right time to take Wales forward.

Bill Ross

He is tight with his mom. He has such an old-fashioned sense of responsibility. He is the man of the house.

Rosemary Dillard

He should be murdered, killed. I mean, this man has no remorse.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

Ron Gardenhire

He's pitching like a man on a mission on the mound.

Javier Valentin

I don't know, man. ... What can I say?

Najam Sethi

He will in a way be saying; I am the man in Pakistan. Don't do anything to destabilize me. Don't be misguided by liberals,

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who seizes the right moment, is the right man

Tom Nutten

It actually works, and he obviously has no inhibition to show it. I think it has some kind of a gravitational pull, because everything does go towards him. That's why he is the center, and he is in the middle.

John Gordon Sinclair

I think the problem I have is that first impressions are the ones that stick with people. And people's first impressions of me are obviously from the film, from 'Gregory's Girl.'

Peter Beattie

He'll obviously want to return to the U.S. as soon as possible,

Steve Trachsel

It's not as strong as it obviously was with Kris and Jae. Jae was on the verge of really taking off. But it's still pretty solid.

William McCarthy

That is obviously not a safe way to do business, and it will be reviewed,

Ed Davis

They wanted closure. This obviously opened a lot of old wounds.

Mark Atkinson

Yes, this is obviously a relief for us.

Russ Feingold

You are obviously very talented. And you also look healthy.

Quin Snyder

We've had some highs. This is obviously a low.

Bill Cowher

I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for him. He saw something in me I'm not sure I saw in myself.

Denny Green

He didn't get in. I thought he was in until I saw the replay.

Shun Long

I tipped it. I just saw it and I took it.

William Friedkin

In the case of a film like The Exorcist or To Live and Die in L.A., I saw the whole movie in my head before I went to shoot it. I never did storyboards, or anything like that. I had the film in my head.

Will Ferrell

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.

Robertson Davies

"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else.

Walter Johnson

Nobody saw it, he (Rogers Hornsby) hit it and it disappeared.

Pat Riley

I never saw that in him. He's very competitive ... but I'm a little surprised it went that far.

Nina Olson

I never saw myself working for the government, and yet here I am.

Lee Watkins

They'd been there for six generations and it was all gone.

Emiliano Zapata

One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all on my own.

Lou Holtz

There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.

Darren Sharper

It's just not where I want it to be, but I've still got five, six days,

Natalie Gulbis

It's a tough place to spend six hours.

Wayne Gould

It's not like this was a 12-hour a day job, It was more like a six to nine.

Younis Khan

It was a tremendous victory especially after we were six down for 39 in the first innings.

Linda Price

We're going to be with them a lot for at least the first six months, then slowly wean them. We're not just going to throw them into an apartment.

Evan Osnos

Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.

Mike Gatting

He's got 600 but he won't be stopping there,

Joseph Druce

I was just, like, 'That's it. That's it. I've got to stop this. I couldn't get it out of my head.

Randy Kortokrax

If you want to win at the Coliseum, you've got to stop penetration, penetrate yourself and play half-court defense.

Saina Nehwal

I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.

Alan Ladd

I'm going to make it. Nothing is going to stop me. Nothing. I want it too much.

Questlove

Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time,

Dan Davis

I told them to stop their friend. They didn't.

Dietric Slater

We thought we could win. We started executing, slowed it down, got on a little run. Then we couldn't stop them from scoring.

Wanda Davis

Once we tear down Wooddale Park, there will be no more Wooddale Park.

David Bolland

I've been on a tear (for penalties) lately, but I have to be more careful.

Juvenal

Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.

Daniel Handler

When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.

Blaise Pascal

I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.

Elie Wiesel

I did not weep, and it pained me that i could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like--free at last!

Clive Barker

Anyway, it's gone. And there's nothing left in my pocket to charm you. So from now on it's going to have to be tears or nothing I'm afraid. That's all I've got left to tell you see: tears, tears, tears.

Anna Wintour

Tears? Are you going for a Barbara Walters moment?

Aesop

Much outcry, little outcome.