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american-athlete baseball good life piece spend sports turns
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. Jim Bouton
american-athlete opportunity
They gave me a second opportunity and 45 years later I'm still here. Tony Oliva
american-athlete good hit knew throw
When he hit a ground ball to you, you knew you had to make a good throw because he was going to be running. Juan Marichal
american-athlete thomas
Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night. Thomas Hearns
american-athlete
I'm going to fight again because this wasn't a fight.
american-athlete man
That was the fight. I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion.
american-athlete born lived
Born in Baltimore, I lived there 1 month. Jim Coleman
american-athlete barrel drive hit ready relaxed swing wave weight
Be relaxed and don't wave the bat, don't clench it. Be ready to hit down with the barrel of the bat. Just swing it and let the weight drive the ball. Paul Waner
american-athlete curious yellow
Be like Curious George, start with a question and look under the yellow hat to find what's there.
chances loss mad pitch
We had some chances today, but when it comes down to it, it's the pitch I made to Ramirez. I just look back at it and I'm mad at myself. I let that pitch get away from me. The loss is because of me. Dan Haren
chances tired
We got a lot of power-play chances and I think our (special teams) units were getting a little tired and frustrated. We were getting a little too individual.
chances convert half second
We got a lot of chances in the second half but we didn't convert them. But we'll take the one-nil advantage.
chances felt focus focused game goal good hopeful improvement legitimate night point team took
There is a lot to be hopeful for and the focus is here. I wanted to keep the team focused on improvement and that was my goal when I took the job. I think it got to a point where I felt good every night about our chances to win. And that's what you want, to go into each game with a legitimate chance to win. Bob Hill
chances maybe overcome team year
This team has overcome a lot to go from 4-4 to 10-4. We've had a lot of chances to say that maybe tonight's not our night. But we haven't said it once all year and we're not going to say it.
chances couple help hits stayed
We stayed in it, but they did little things to win. We didn't do that. They had some big hits and, of course, I had a couple chances to help us out and didn't do it. It's frustrating. Todd Helton
chances defense desire far forward gave good helped moving noticed player room stretch strong
(Scott) has a strong desire to score. He's a very good one-on-one player and we've noticed that we've been getting a lot of one-on-one chances so far this year. Moving him up to forward helped stretch the defense and gave us a lot of room for chances.
chances defeating devices electronic ground normal obviously percent somebody terrorists variety
Obviously nothing is 100 percent effective. But we know that doing nothing is 100 percent ineffective. You can try a variety of different devices or electronic monitoring systems, but at the end of the day, if you don't have somebody on the ground who is able to distinguish what is normal and what is out of the ordinary, your chances of defeating those terrorists is pretty slim.
chances excellent football games share win
Bath's an excellent team. They'll win their share of football games this season, that's for sure. We had some chances to put it away, but we made too many turnovers and had too many penalties.
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If the difference is made up through cuts to public services - like transportation infrastructure, education - then the overall effect on the economy of incentives can end up being negative.
cuts tougher
That was really one of the tougher cuts that we've made. Bill Cowher
cuts earn instead paycheck playing
I was pretty much playing paycheck to paycheck. So instead of playing to win, I was playing to make cuts and earn checks, and you can't play like that.
cuts dress everybody good gotten guys night sure work
We feel good we have 46 guys we know we would dress to play the Vikings, ... We just have to see what else is out there. We've gotten about 18 of the teams' cuts right now. We're going to work (Saturday) night making sure we know everybody who's on the wire.
cuts driven job line opposed price result top
The job cuts were well priced in. What was not in the price was the results, because the fourth-quarter result was driven by the top line as opposed to anything else.
cuts fuel good
Anything that reduces fuel consumption and cuts down on greenhouse gasses is good news. Norman Foster
cuts gets percent start top
When you start getting 10 percent cuts on top on 23 percent cuts, that's when the decision-making gets difficult.
cuts exception fish fishy land larger longer require tender time
Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get. Yotam Ottolenghi
cuts deeply issues leading mass roe tax war weapons
On the issues that I care deeply about - the environment, Roe vs. Wade, the war in Iraq, with no weapons of mass destruction, the tax cuts that are now leading to deficits, I've got some deep issues with the president. Lincoln Chafee
entering relation persons
Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons. Martin Buber
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It's a sad day for Formula One when the privateers really do go, but I think we are entering into a new era where the privateers are the Red Bulls, they are really well funded.
poor rich staying
The rich are staying in school, and the poor are being drafted. I can't live with that. Donald E. Graham
poor quarter rolling start starts third
You get off to a poor start in the third quarter and things start rolling the other way. It starts snowballing a little bit.
poor stores pale
Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor. Alexander Pope
poor good-things company
It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company. Marilynne Robinson
poor
We are, all of us, poor wretches, and those who prefer not to understand this are even worse off than the rest of us. Isabelle Eberhardt
poor competencies
He is not poor who has a competency. Horace
poor trying
If he was trying to take me out, he did a poor job. Chipper Jones
poor
There's no future in being poor. Robert Shaw
poor prose inadequate
Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time. Vita Sackville-West
shapes way stories
The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world. Derrick Jensen
shape worse
The only person I know who is in worse shape than I am (on Montgomery Clift). Marilyn Monroe
shapes who-we-are madness
Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end Christopher Paolini
shapes walks
I walk a lot. It keeps me in shape and clears my head. Raquel Zimmermann
shapes emotion foolish
You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish. Robert A. Heinlein
shapes letters way
I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have. Steven Hatfill
shapes mouths made
He tried to smile, but it was just a shape his mouth made. Melissa Bank
shape stay work
But we have to stay in shape and we work out most days, even when we really don't feel like it. Kian Egan
shape taking time top wants
He's taking some time now because he wants to be in top shape for the campaign.
top-10 politics pay
... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote. Dick Morris
top
It will be one of our top 10 doing something, Stuart Appleby
top
It was hellish conditions, if you will, on top of the chimney.
top water
We could never have done it. Two of them were in the water when we got there and one was on top of the ice.