Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Hearns

Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night.

Bobby Thomson

I was a raw rookie in Arizona during spring training in 1947, but I could do three things. I could run. I had a good arm. And I could hit with power.

Cathy Rigby

For the parents, it is a way to be young physically and emotionally for awhile and not have to deal with the troubles of the world.

George Brett

If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect 3,000 hits and 1,000 errors.

Jennifer Capriati

I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind.

James Collins

If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.

John Hawley

I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.

Michael East

I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.

Allen Johnson

I am as hungry now as I was when I began in the sport. If anything, I am probably a bit hungrier. It is because I know there are fewer tomorrows than yesterdays.

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.

David Wright

You look at it, you've got to take one game at a time and play good baseball. Yes, we started hot, but there have been a ton of teams that start hot, then they go into a drought after that. So we have to stay focused and continue doing what we're doing.

Mark Ellis

You look at Frank's numbers and he's amazing. He's already a presence around here. You couldn't be a baseball fan in the '90s and not follow Frank Thomas. He's as good as there was in the game.

John Gibbons

First of all, he's been in the organization a long time. Second, he's had a lot of these guys, ... He's a good baseball man, and he's paid his dues. And he's from the South.

Randy Johnson

There's really not one person in this clubhouse we could have been without,

Tom Slater

There was a little extra bounce in their step. With the hard work they put in ever single day, it makes them feel better to know that they're being rewarded for hard their hard work. The most important thing in baseball is confidence. Obviously when you win, it gives you a little more.

Jim Rew

There's something about playing the game of baseball that lights up a youngster's eyes but for children facing mental and physical challenges, that opportunity can often be a difficult first test. The Miracle League gives these children the opportunity to get out in the sunshine and enjoy the game of baseball in its purest form.

Scott Wallsten

There's no real justification for public financing of stadiums. They don't generate economic benefits. They don't help revitalize neighborhoods. The economic research on this is pretty solid. The only studies that show positive effects are the ones commissioned by baseball and people who want a stadium built.

Jeff Bagwell

There's no other situation this would be OK. A normal guy, that wasn't going to play. It fit for our situation at the time. It's not something I would advocate. But Roger Clemens is a gift from the baseball gods. Anything he does is a gift. ... Craig (Biggio) and I have never had a ring. Our best opportunity to get one was to have Roger around. He tends to his obligations, his kids. And it's not like the man comes in here and pitches five innings and gives up six every day.

Maj. Crisp

Usually it is someone driving in the breakdown lane.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

David Gibson

That track record has made the latest New York guessing game as speculative as a Nasdaq investment, and a slew of names have been floated in recent months, only to come back to earth.

Nancy Diers

That's what's so hard for me to swallow as a coach. We were so close, but we didn't take our game to the next step to pull out the wins. We're just kind of hovering right now, and we're not doing what it takes to get to the next step.

Matt McCool

That's why that first out is so important in the seventh inning. Once again, Cody pitched a great game (he was a 2-1 loser to Bolles a week ago), then we go and make it interesting. Poor guy." ()

Jeff Evans

That's why he's a great player. He makes all his teammates better, which he did in that game.

Andray Blatche

That's what me being here was about, to get in game shape. This is really helping me out for my conditioning. Everything down here's been great for me.

Larry Boomer

That's what makes it more rewarding, winning a game where every point is contested, every pass is contested.

Chris Hovan

That's why you never look at the (betting) line. You never look if you're playing at home or away. You just look at the next game on the schedule.

Sidney Crosby

That's just the nature of the game. There was a lot made out of this game and I think things just escalated a little bit.

Chris Duggan

Some smaller providers get nervous when you start talking about a rating system.

Marian Keyes

Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the middle of one.

Al Alvarez

In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.