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.

Stan Musial

I love to play this game of baseball. I love putting on the uniform.

Stan Coveleski

Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.

Ron Gardenhire

It's always an honor to work with the Twins Community Fund and be a part of all the good that they do. They help people in so many ways. To be part of not only a baseball team, but being a part of something where you're helping people who need help, that's what life is all about really.

Steve Garvey

Baseball is the life.

Steve Garvey

Major League Baseball has prostate awareness for two weeks leading up to Father's Day, and I want to get involved in that.

Steve Garvey

Through SCP Auctions, the Garvey family will also continue to share our great love for baseball by donating time and dollars to youth baseball programs.

Randy Johnson

Greg Maddux is probably the best pitcher in all of baseball along with Roger Clemens. He's much more intelligent than I am because he doesn't have a 95 or 98 mph fastball. I would tell any pitcher who wants to be successful to watch him, because he's the true definition of a pitcher.

Rafael Palmeiro

Baseball gets better for whatever reason.

Rabindranath Tagore

Man has a fund of emotional energy which is not all occupied with his self-preservation. This surplus seeks its outlet in the creation of art, for man's civilization is built upon his surplus... In everyday life, when we are mostly moved by our habit

Max Cobb

Historically, there was a difference in the percent back between the men and women, so we were trying to equalize that. That was the concept. ... But today, it doesn't look the same. Rachel built her case and we supported that, but the Olympic committee didn't feel like they could make a change.

Robert McCullough

It's part of what we do at the University of Vermont, we teach the history of the built environment." ()

Kathy Sierra

It was actually a little platform they had built for tourists or people who come to see the place, ... We sang to some people there people from everywhere. Everybody liked it. A few people cried. It was real emotional.

Michael Chetcuti

It's been virtually untouched since it was built and we'll have to tap into the water system.

Steve Carr

It makes the financing more difficult and the cash flow tighter, and it may take some people out of expansions. But the market has had this (rate increase) built into it. It's expected. Projects that make economic sense will still be taken on.

John Godber

A lot of the value that's built up in these businesses, goodwill, is often because the founder is an excellent salesperson or business leader.

David Malpass

Already we're seeing graduates of U.S. higher education going back to their home countries and contributing to societies there, where in the past they would have stayed in the U.S. and built new companies here. We have to have immigration reform that allows talented foreigners to become Americans.

Heather Friedland

A lot of Windows Desktop Search capabilities will be built into the visualization and organization scenarios inside Windows Vista.

Tony Domenech

So you no longer have an absentee landlord - easy solution.

Steven Soderbergh

When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.

Matt Watson

It's an easy way to make a quick getaway from the school environment.

Kent Williams

It is very important to remember volunteers, firefighters and law enforcement, all of the service providers who help us to have safe lives. We should not forget them, only to remember them when a 9-11 happens. But it is so easy to forget and we have to remind ourselves of the purpose they serve,

Kofi Annan

It is very easy to say why don't you resolve politically rather than putting troops. It is very easy to criticize, but it's not that simple.

Bill White

It is very easy to be fooled by something like this.

Michael Waltrip

It's a great racetrack. This is the kind of racetrack we need. Tracks that are real wide and real easy to drive, somebody hits the setup.

Daniel Shifrin

Unlike the Internet, this system is easy to use. It just involves a regular telephone. That's why we've seen many seniors signing up.

Michael Young

We have to make an effort to loosen up a little bit, because it's easy to tighten up when you get off to a rough start. We need to make an effort to just go out there and have fun, be ourselves and go out and play a game.

Dick Enberg

He was the first superstar of sports television because he did all of the big events. He's the last of the dinosaurs. No one will ever be the voice of so many major events at the same time ever again.

Perry Miller

would be like not spraying your fields and hoping the weeds will stay away.

LaVar Arrington

I looked forward to the focus on me being turned back on football.

Hedi Slimane

Hedi was and is still misspelled 'Heidi,' and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age.

Frederick the Great

In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.

Greg Long

The focus is on practical life and work. Survival skills.

Ned Riley

The focus point of the market this week is going to be tomorrow. If anything, I'm hoping for neutrality out of the Fed.

Chris Grinde

The focus needs to be on who we are playing and not what it is for.

Ellen Glasgow

One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world ...

Epictetus

Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty

Kim Thompson

It's hard to keep your focus for six hours. We lose a lot of shots when we forget to focus on every single one.

Steve Sanger

Total has a great nutrition story, ... We need to offer variety and taste appeal.

Josh Silver

We think that we have great potential but never reach it.

Jim Calhoun

We went to see 'Glory Road' the other night and it was a great film.

Chris Scelfo

Though our wins and losses are not where we wanted them to be, to have 100 people see this season through is a great testament to their character.

Van Chancellor

Unbelievable. Oh, boy, she looks great. She's come back, lost weight, (is) in great shape, looks good.

Rob Schmidt

Twenty-one (points) is a great performance, but other guys stepped up.

Debby Ryan

T.V. acting is a great skill to have, and it's nice to have that stability.

Solomon Jones

You hear about all those players. But not all the great shot blockers come out of Georgetown. We got some here at South Florida.

Bruce Gradkowski

You hear about all the great quarterbacks who have come out of Western Pennsylvania. That's always been in the back of my mind. One day I hope to be mentioned with all of those guys. But right now I'm just looking for my opportunity, working for my chance.

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Andy Roddick

I don't think about tennis 24/7. I enjoy time on the lake at my Florida home and just being lazy on the sofa.

Andy Roddick

Most players who play tennis love the game. But I think you also have to respect it. You want to do everything you can in your power to do your best. And for me, I know I get insane guilt if I go home at the end of the day and don't feel I've done everything I can. If I know I could have done something better, I have this uneasy feeling.

Annie Besant

My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give back to India her ancient freedom.

Annie Dillard

I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners.

Annie Dillard

The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can discover itself like a once-blind man unbound. The gaps are the clefts in the rock where you cower to see the back parts of God; they are fissures between mountains and cells the wind lances through, the icy narrowing fiords splitting the cliffs of mystery. Go up into the gaps. If you can find them; they shift and vanish too. Stalk the gaps. Squeak into a gap in the soil, turn, and unlock-more than a maple-universe.

Chuck Lorre

According to the rules of comedy, your suffering will be funny after an undetermined length of time. Maybe not while you're having your gangrenous leg sawed off, watching your home burn down or learning how to be intimate with your cellmate, but, in the big scheme of things, soon.

Chuck Norris

If some thug breaks into my home I can use my roundhouse kick, but I prefer he look down the barrel of my gun.

Alexis Tsipras

We are committing ourselves to basic protections of our people... We will not permit banks to repossess the homes of working class and middle class people. That's the end of that, it is not negotiable.

Percy Sledge

I'd liked this girl all through high school. After we graduated, we got together for a while, but she left me for another man.

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Douglas Massey

Markets are a social construction, they're made from institutions. We in a democratic society create markets, we constitute markets, we bring them into existence, and we shouldn't turn markets over to a narrow group of people who regulate them and run them in their interests, rather they should be run democratically for the common good.

Donald Barthelme

Some people', Miss R. said,'run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might point out that there is enough aesthetic excitement here to satisfy anyone but a damned fool.

Donald Sutherland

I'm running out of time, and a Western is America's answer to a Greek tragedy, so that's what we did. [Kiefer] hired Brad [Mirman] to write the script and he had the ideas, and then he and I did stuff on the script to make it a little cleaner to ourselves. And then, we played it. We were just actors working together, and our DNA must have informed it somehow. Certainly, we came out of it purified a little bit.

Don Kardong

There's no such thing as a bad carbohydrate.

Colleen Hoover

It's not just lies they're referring to. It's life. You can't run to another town, another place, another state. Whatever it is you're running from-it goes with you. It stays with you until you find out how to confront it.

Dolores Huerta

You could really belong to a group of people and with other people, you could really make some significant changes - through the electoral process, of course, by registering people to vote, and by supporting good people who were running for office. For me, it was like I had found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Dolly Parton

It's great at this stage in my life to still be in the running, that people appreciate you.

Dolly Parton

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.