Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Harris

I was looking for a ball away the entire at-bat. I fouled a couple off, pitches that I could have hit. He kept living out there and left me one up that I could handle.

Buck Showalter

Kevin had a great spring. He started off slow, having a nagging injury, but he is starting to swing the bat well. He is seeing the ball well and centers the ball so well. Kevin is so strong that the ball has a lot of carry. He can just power the ball out of here.

Matthew Stevens

Ken played fantastic and didn't miss more than five or six balls all the way through.

Greg Robinson

K.J. (Smith)'s had a very good camp. He had a good spring ball and I like him there (at middle linebacker). I think it's a good position for him.

Jim Rosborough

Kirk needs to understand this is going to be a whole lot more physical. They bang you, they push you. It's a whole new ball of wax.

Bill Doba

Kids don't care. Whoever can take them down the field and score and help them win ball games, that's who they will follow. In talking to one of our players, they said, 'Coach, this ain't no church league.' We're trying to win ball games, and whoever can get the job done and do the best job is who this team will follow.

Matthew King

I wouldn't say I hit the ball well but I scrambled well and putted well and hit some good shots on the back nine and took my chances there, ... I'm feeling good. I would like to feel more comfortable with my tee-to-green game, but it is a nice problem to have.

Phil Garner

I wouldn't say he pitched poorly, I'd say that they did a good job of putting the ball in play. They are a good hitting team. They're going to get some hits on you.

Sean Miller

I would use the word alarming. We're a team that practices very well and hard, and we pass the ball well, and we've shown we can rebound. Through nine games, we all have to take a hard look at what we need to do to shore that up. If we could shore that up, we'd have a terrific team.

Shawn Scobee

I was in there three or four times every day during the week. I went before class and after class and before practice and then after batting practice. I think I spent more time in the training room than I did in class this week.

Drew Bennett

I would say it was a pretty good battle over the years. I'd say it was a pretty good competition,

Bobby Cox

Jordan has been swinging the bat good and he's running good, ... He can certainly help us.

Rob Wostratzky

Joe is a senior, he's been our rock all year. Then we lost Jon ... the teeth didn't look good. But maybe this will be beneficial to our guys who had to battle through the adversity.

Wayne Graham

Joe feels that he can function better in his dual role as a Sunday starter. He's obviously a bat that we have to have.

David Lawhon

Josh struggled a little bit early, but then he started throwing his breaking pitch pretty good. Our defense played well behind him, and we swung the bats effectively. We didn't commit any errors, so that's a good thing.

Randy Young

John has a knack for making things happen batting where he does.

Paul Denning

John had one target only and that was to win. It looked like a straight battle between John and Valentino Rossi, but I think they pushed each other to the limit and both ended up watching the last 10 minutes of the session.

David Eckstein

Juan has wheels and can handle the bat pretty well. Tony knows what he is doing. Juan is the type of hitter who can do a lot once he settles in and gets in his groove. He has a great stroke down through the zone. He's not the only one who struggled early. I hadn't been swinging the bat that well either. He's going to mean a lot to this lineup over the long run.

Tim Thomas

I was looking forward to showing some character by giving a good effort all the way to the end of the year. I thought there was a good chance that maybe we could end the season with a win and feel good about ourselves. But it wasn't to be.

Lyle Overbay

I was looking for a pitch to hit. I had a chance to drive it. When I saw it go in the gap I thought maybe there would be a chance to score. Next thing you know, we win the game.

Jarome Iginla

Kipper, he's played like that all year. He's been amazing. Especially early tonight, they had some chances and he made some timely saves.

Donna Reed

Just the idea of giving a critically ill person a new chance at life. Every time I think about it I get goose bumps. My son lives on in them.

Brian France

Joe Gibbs has proven that you can take success from one sport and translate it to another. If they follow anything close to his model, and they're smart guys, they'll have a chance to be successful.

John Lucas

John has had a lot of skills for a long time, ... Sometimes, picking the wrong school, picking a system that doesn't fit, you have to go where you can. I think he's in a system now he likes and respects a lot, he's getting a chance to play with high-level athletes.

Ron Wilson

It actually gave us a chance to stop the goal from being counted. But it's just one of those things.

Brian Jensen

I think it's a great team. You get a chance to talk about poker with some great players and there's a feeling of team spirit.

Larry Davis

I think it's a great idea. While my wife's doing the grocery shopping instead of just wandering around the store, it would be a good chance to have my cholesterol checked again.

Shamalene Broner

If you're just doing what you're supposed to do, make a compact swing, you're going to get a hit.

Michael Ballack

It's not so important if I get into a shooting position. Our strength is the defense, that's where we have to win balls. We have to play our normal game, be very compact in midfield. That's our game and that's what we do best.

Bill Fulkerson

The Supreme Court dealt with the compact issue ... but it's a completely different issue than the first time. It's a different argument.

Christy Williams

This is the first time we have found so many rhinos in a compact location ... it's a great discovery.

Justin McNaull

Drive your most sensible car. If it's a trip to the grocery store, don't take the pickup, take your compact car.

Kyle MacLachlan

'Dune' was like a giant machine, and it was hard to keep track of all the pieces, but 'Blue Velvet' was a very sleek, compact little experience.

Henry Ward Beecher

When a man sells 11 ounces for 12, he makes a compact with the devil, an sells himself for the value of an ounce.

Christopher Reynolds

There are other families of particles out there that can form massive compact objects.

David Hewson

Alfriston is a compact village set around a rather traffic-weary High Street, mainly of old, timbered buildings. The principal sights lie to the east on the river side.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

Ryan Zimmerman

I wouldn't say I am a power hitter. I am a gap-to-gap guy. If I hit one like I did today, so be it.

Sarunas Jasikevicius

Jackson hit a lot of big shots. I thought that everyone stepped up. This was a big win for us.

Jay Alford

He just wasn't hitting the holes like he wanted to.

Erik Anderson

He is the strongest hitter in this program, and he has been for the last three years.

Bruce Shumaker

Guys, they hit us in the face, and we let them.

Siobhan Finneran

My career seems to have worked out OK, especially since I turned 40. I've always had a character part, mind you - I've never played the princess. But if you're used to doing that, it must be soul-destroying to hit 40 and suddenly find there's nothing for you to do.

David Blitzer

This was one time hit from oil prices. We knew oil had to go up from an unsustainably low number late last year.

David Blitzer

This was one time hit from oil prices, ... We knew oil had to go up from an unsustainably low number late last year.

Zeke Jones

I think in some spots we competed well and there were some spots where we could have done a little better.

Riccardo Muti

I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.

Sarah McLachlan

I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.

Vincent Cassel

I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.

Nelson Mandela

It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty.

Marion Cotillard

It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.

Grady Sizemore

That's what you play for. You play all year in a lot of games. This is the spot you play for.

Grady Sizemore

That's what you play for. You play all year, a lot of games. This is the spot you play for. We know what we can do. We know what we have to do every day. We just worry about ourselves.

Bobby Howard

We just trying to find a spot for him. It's still early.

Richelle Mead

Fiery and sweet, all at the same time. A flame in the dark, lighting my way.

Richelle Mead

My captivity with Dimitri. The way his mouth—so, so warm, despite his cold skin—had kissed mine. The feel of his fangs pressing into my neck and the sweet bliss that followed... He looked exactly the same too, with that chalky white pallor and red-ringed eyes that so conflicted with the soft, chin-length brown hair and otherwise gorgeous lines of his face. He even had a leather duster on.

Truman Capote

Of many magics, one is watching a beloved sleep: free of eyes and awareness, you for a sweet moment hold the heart of him; helpless, he is then all, and however irrationally, you have trusted him to be, man-pure, child-tender.

Rick Riordan

Oh...my...god,"Drew whimpered."Who..." Anubis ignored her (bless him for that) and held out his elbow for me - a sweet old-fashioned gesture. " May I have this dance?" "I suppose," I said,as non committally as I could. I looped my arm through his, and we left the Plastic Bags behind us, all of them muttering,"Oh my god! Oh my god!" No ,actually, I wanted to say. He's my amazingly hot boy god. Find your own.

Richard Crashaw

Eyes that displace the neighbor diamond, and outface that sunshine by their own sweet grace.

William Wordsworth

Sweet is the lore which nature brings, our meddeling interlect mis-shapes the beautious forms of things. we murder to dissect

William Wordsworth

And what if thou, sweet May, hast known Mishap by worm and blight; If expectations newly blown Have perished in thy sight; If loves and joys, while up they sprung, Were caught as in a snare; Such is the lot of all the young, However bright and fair.

William Wordsworth

In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard seat And birds and flowers once more to greet. . . .

William Wordsworth

Sweet childish days, that were as long, As twenty days are now.

Jonas Jennings

Have you ever tried to write with one hand?

Jim Gallagher

I didn't get a sense of what the temperature is on that. I tried to allay the fears, and there are significant fears.

Nate Robinson

I am going to go at him (Iverson). I am going to make him play defense. That is what I tried to do tonight.

Marc Grossman

had some questions, we tried to give some answers... it was not negotiations.

Travis Garrison

I just tried to do what I could.

Kwame Brown

I just tried to play the right way.

Bill Laimbeer

I tried hard, it was close, but it didn't happen.

Tom Johnston

I tried to deport him once because he's Canadian.

Jeremy Shockey

I tried it their way and now I wanted to try it my way,