Famous Quotes & Sayings

Babe Ruth

After all, there's only one aswer to be made to the young fellow who is asking constantly for advice as to how to hit. The answer is: "Pick out a good one and sock it!

Donald Trump

When I build something for somebody, I always add $50 million or $60 million onto the price. My guys come in, they say it's going to cost $75 million. I say it's going to cost $125 million, and I build it for $100 million. Basically, I did a lousy job. But they think I did a great job.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

John Lynch

Did you know that the state is the proud owner of a condo complex in Conway? This budget adds a real estate manager position to assess what we own, and sell those properties that we don't need and shouldn't own.

Joe Quinlan

We are very excited to add Bobby Gonzalez as our head coach to an already storied basketball tradition at Seton Hall. Our search process was very thorough and we talked with extremely talented candidates, but in the end we felt Bobby stood out as the best coach to represent the university and lead our student-athletes. He has an established presence in the metropolitan area and his teams have been perennial winners on the court.

Randy Sharp

What is it with these hamburger chains? Are they so desperate to pump up lagging sales that they're resorting to vulgarity and strip teases to gain attention? ... It's like Carl's Jr., Hardee's and Burger King have perverted seventh-grade boys running their ad campaigns.

Bill Halpin

You have to give Modesto credit. They had girls in foul trouble and we couldn't take advantage of that. They deserved to win.

Zwelinzima Vavi

This (the China deal) is an example of how things should not be done. We have been told that the draft agreement will work to the advantage of China and be bad for us.

David Ricks

We're taking full advantage of the area, so there's no dead space at all.

Bruce Summerhays

The day started out kind of bland, then I made a couple of good par putts early and got things going, ... You always feel good when you play like this. I'm going to have to put up some similar numbers the next two days.

Joe Glenn

He tried hard and ran hard. There were a couple of plays where I thought he should have trusted the point of attack.

Terry Floyd

I don't know if it's emotional but I will realize if we play great or poorly that there is only a couple of weeks left.

Tim Richards

We need all six players to play solid, ... Hopefully we'll get everyone here doing that in the next couple of weeks.

George Pipas

I think the next couple months will be pretty choppy. It will probably be November before we can think about trend sales rates again.

Jack Quatman

Other than a couple of incidents, he's been pretty good.

Kyle Cooper

Rising inventories are keeping a lid on prices. Inventories are back at levels we last saw in 1999, but the price is still a couple times higher. The market has been remarkably resilient because there are fears of supply disruptions.

Jay Mergenthaler

Our main goals are to finish over .500 and to win a couple of tournament games.

Shahid Ghori

Our leaders have been receiving threats for the past couple of months and we had informed the government about it, but no security was provided to our leaders.

Terry Goodson

I don't how to explain how I feel right now, I am pretty excited. The kids worked their butts off all week. They played four straight days and every day they have been at practice at 11:30 every day and worked for an hour and half. I am so proud of them. I think they wanted it more.

Sandra Navarro

His days of dictatorship are over. Justice will now prevail.

John Whisenant

The doctors OK'd her to start practice two days ago. She was limited. She's very rusty, missing easy shots and it's frustrating her because she's lost her sharpness. How quickly she gets it back, we don't know.

Brian Butch

It shouldn't have been that hard. We practiced four days (against) it. We've seen it. We played them once before with it. It was a lack of execution.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Bobby Lamb

We signed 23 last year, and this year we signed 12. This year we were very selective because we were looking at taking one at every position, basically.

Nikola Tesla

The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Octavio Dotel

What I saw today, it made me feel good. It made my work for the last nine months look good. I've been waiting for it.

David Akers

It's not going to be easy, but I think things were encouraging. It's better than what it was last Sunday, by far.

Tim Cox

This is the first time when we can touch people when they have been devastated.

Mark Serwotka

This is not a union that is struggling. People see we are standing up for what they want and they want to join.

Dominique Moisi

This is not a triumph for Chirac. People didn't go to vote.

Bruce Babbitt

This is not about turning people away from the park, ... The problem is not that there's too many people. The problem is there's too many cars.

Julie Taymor

This is not to make it easier, it's just to entice people to come.

Bill Cheney

This is simply what a recession is like. This report represents real people and real pain, especially around the holidays.

Barbara Schneeman

This is really good. People are being vaccinated.

Jaromir Jagr

This is probably the most surprising season, my season and the team's. For a lot of people around the league.

Harry Price

This is so wonderful to see all of these people who are working to preserve our history,

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Roy Keane

You shouldn't have spoken to the players like that. No, you should have.

Ned Colletti

Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot of different criteria in judging players. I think I use, um, esoteric qualitative mathematical review times five. That's one of them.

Kirby Copeland

This proves a lot. We can come out and play with the No. 3 team in the nation.

Charles Baudelaire

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.