Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Bamber

Back in the Eighties, I'd buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible.

Jeff Chown

Right now there's a risk in signing any baseball player, whether or not there's been a rumor about him or not. There's a dark cloud over the entire sport.

Jose Guillen

This is a pitchers' ballpark. Everybody knows that here. It's not in my mind anymore. I'm just here to play baseball -- that's what I'm going to do. Some of these guys are worried about it. That's not by business.

Babe Ruth

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.

Babe Ruth

I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime.

Jim Stoyle

We're happy to be 6-5. We've turned the corner. The thing is, we were 2-5 at one time (after having) lost four in a row and were frustrated. We were searching for some identity. The kids turned it around. That's what is unique about baseball that you can't do with basketball. You have to do get after it the next day.

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.

Tim Brosnan

ESPN has been a tremendous television partner and I am extremely pleased that we will be enhancing our relationship with their coverage of the inaugural World Baseball Classic. The magnitude of ESPN's reach will provide the broad, in-depth coverage that this event deserves.

Todd Pratt

Especially when you see Houston there. I love baseball, but I'm definitely watching football. Plus, I have to keep up with my guys.

Steve Fleming

As a father, I did a poor job at dealing with my son. The Special Olympics taught me how to deal with my son, and now he is my best friend. We do everything together.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did. I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Jack McMahon

People say it's Calistoga's best team since 1992.

Ron Guidry

People say he struggled. But I'll take five guys like him who struggle. Randy is still one of the best pitchers in baseball.

Scott Kahan

People should look at this market as a great learning experience. The best learning experience of how much risk you want to take is going through a down market.

Lou Steinberg

People should know that Camille was someone who always looked out for the best interest of kids, understood the importance of shared decision making and was always willing to listen to the concerns of the community. I think the community owes her a great debt of thanks.

Mark Savage

People should be curious about what the changes will mean, and look around for the best deal.

Jerry Hunton

People reasonably would rather not have one of these next door, but we also get complaints from people who have businesses, chicken houses, all sorts of other things nearby. It's one of those growth issues we're always dealing with, and we do the best we can to solve problems as they appear.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Danny Culler

Coming to the checkered. Watch your mirror. Watch your mirror.

John Gibbons

Coming in we knew we had a good one,

David Perkins

Now, gas prices, ... they go to $10 to the gallon, we're still coming to the races.

Tom Pardalis

Ryan and Greg are giving us great senior leadership on a young team. This team is learning and understanding how to play hard all game long. That is coming from the seniors. Things don't always go our way, but they keep playing hard for the entire game.

Shaun Ellis

Sacks, they come in bunches, ... Once they start coming then we'll get them. We just have to get more opportunities. Right now we're worried about stopping the run. Sacks, that's the last thing on our minds.

Bruce Bochy

Ryno's come off a pretty good week. He knocked in some runs. I don't want to let him get rusty after coming off a pretty good week.

Brandon Rush

Russell coming back in was a real big deal. He helps relieve the pressure a lot on me and Mario (Chalmers, 21 points of 6-of-9 shooting and 6-of-9 free throwing), and he's starting to become a real good scorer. He was ready to get back out there. He was pretty mad about getting the two fouls.

John Shevlin

How else are you going to win if you can't recover from a loss, especially at 4-1? The season's not down the drain - not even close.

Kirk Hinrich

Something went off in our heads -- maybe we were playing not to get embarrassed. If we started the game the way we played the second half, we're going to be tough to beat. We have to come out with more energy and focus.

James Jones

Ross has been really steady for us. He gave us a lot of energy off the bench.

John Ryding

Energy prices do matter, especially to the public's perception of inflation.

Peter Beutel

Every time energy prices triple we have a major recession in 1½ to 2 years.

Tony Fadell

You have to look at why people come and work at Nest. Part of it is that a lot of people here already know each other, but we're also on a mission with a purpose. People are personally motivated by energy or safety.

Greg Brunner

The place was crazy, and we just fed off that. The fans gave us the energy that we needed.

Niels Bohr

Must have something to do with the zero-point energy.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Nuclear energy is our right, and we will resist until this right is fully realized.

Ozren Mueller

She's in a good mood, but she has no energy. She had the flu and then a stomach ache. It took a lot of energy away from her.

J. Horton

Somebody out there knows this man. I know his face is covered, but if it were my husband and I saw him, I would still recognize his movements and his body.

Marilyn Miller

Protesting in the face of a grieving family is unacceptable.

Douglas Kirkland

The misfortune is that many people, men and women, think that the perfect face has no flaws, no pores in the skin; and that gives unrealistic levels of esteem. Somebody feels they're not right because they haven't got that type of refinement.

Billy Joel

You see firemen, you see cops, and these guys risk their lives everyday. They do this all the time . . . to be able to see a smile on some of these people's faces -- they've gone through so much, they've lost so many of their friends.

Juvenal

The face, not the woman is the attraction.

Julianne Moore

I can only be in the sun for 15 minutes before burning. I have sunscreen on my face every day. If I'm walking on the sunny side of the street, I'll walk to the shady side. I'm too uncomfortable in the sun.

Patrick Chinamasa

The faces sitting in front of you are hungry faces,

Rhonda Jefferson

Though it looked like the same team we faced the first time, they had a lot more kills in this game then they did in the last one.

James Bell

We've got a lot of new faces there.

Larry Brown

You gotta understand what I?m about, ... This is a team sport.

Michael Strahan

Feely, he's crazy. He thinks he's a big guy. He thinks he's tough. We gotta keep reminding him he's a kicker.

Marcus Greer

I think once we got up, we got kind of flat. That's one thing we've gotta correct.

Dick Umile

You let it go. You gotta let it go. This is a whole new season now.

Bill Gray

We have to try and take the run away, ... They like run at you so we gotta try and take away what they like to do best.

Larry Coker

I told them we gotta get a lot better. There were a lot of mistakes, some off the snaps, too many penalties.

Charles E. Young

Standing up and teaching is grueling, but grueling fun.

Bobby Hamilton

I don't think you can do it with 10 races to go in trucks because we only run 25 races,

Steve Knapp

If he's got a lot of maidens, he can win a lot of races. To win the meet, you have to win 10, 12, or 14 races with maidens.

Jamie Foxx

I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.

Carroll Shelby

In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it.' He said, 'I didn't ask you to make it; you work for me.'

Charles Barkley

There's nobody you'd rather beat than your good friend.

Bobby Knight

Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.

Billie Jean King

I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.

Billie Jean King

In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.

Billie Jean King

I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.

Billie Jean King

I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.

Billie Jean King

When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Swami Vivekananda

The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.

Sabeer Bhatia

Don't be afraid to tread new ground, but do a sanity test.

Mark Pryor

You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate.