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.

Albert Pujols

I learned to play (baseball) on the streets in the Dominican Republic when I was 8 yrs old.

Albert Pujols

I try to spend as much time as possible with God and my family. That's more important than anything I'm doing in baseball.

Douglas MacArthur

Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb... he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.

Doug Flutie

I live for the Red Sox. I thoroughly enjoy them. For whatever reason, baseball has been a lot more fun for me in recent years. I loosely follow the Patriots and I root for them. I loosely follow the Celtics and then it gets to playoff time and I don't miss a game. Same with the Bruins. I'm not the diehard fan anymore.

Don Larsen

I'll never forget the catch he made to save the game.

Don Mattingly

Baseball's still a game. I don't want it to be work. I want it to be a game.

Don Mattingly

Honestly, at one time I thought Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean, I wasn't born until 1961, and I grew up in Indiana.

Don Baylor

Don Baylor, New York Yankees DH, on Billy Martin and his predecessor Yogi Berra: Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.

Joe Barry

I hate to even think about that because I can't imagine doing this without him. I know that day is going to come. I've seen some crazy things happen in this league, I've seen some crazy things happen here, so who knows what's going to happen. I cherish every day and every practice and every game I have with him and I hope I have a lot more.

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.

Kevin Schieffer

I just read the decision, and it is positive. We are very pleased with the outcome and glad that is done. It has been five days short of eight years. We filed for a permit Feb. 20, 1998.

Hunter Hall

I just hope we make their weeks or their days or their months.

Sandra Navarro

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

Wayne Lee

I paid $2.90 last week and now I paid $3.22. This is ridiculous, in seven days or less. Unfortunately, you got to get to work and you got to do what you got to do. You've got to pay the price right now.

Jerry Glanville

I had 150 days to prepare for them. What worked? Not much.

Ghada Jamsheer

I received this letter, which was hand-delivered, four days ago and it said that the seven judges who signed this letter are no longer involved in my cases,

Kate Christensen

I regretted the solitary nature of the writer's life - other people, normal working people, spent their days with co-workers, rode the subway home with a crowd, walked through thronged streets. I worked at home, all by myself.

Kevin Bardsley

I remember days I would wake up saying, 'Today's the day we're going to find him,'

Carl Edwards

The Hispanic population in the United States is one of the fastest growing demographics. It's a huge group of people that we can introduce to the sport. If they can enjoy it, it's better for all of us.

Arnold H. Glasow

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

Barbara Johnson

It's been a wonderful way for everybody to come together and enjoy a spring evening with family and friends.

John Cooney

It's great to see so many happy faces come here to enjoy the good food and friends,

Ali DeLuca

It's great to know when you work so hard at something that now you can enjoy it.

Dennis Quaid

It's great to get paid for what you love doing most. To enjoy your work. And to follow that. It's important.

Erica Lee

It's great to enjoy the movies in an outdoor setting.

Nadine Roberts

It's quite entertaining; it's different. The wind, the waves and the motion of the ocean is very exciting. The wind is extremely relaxing. You're in the middle of water, so it's very calming. You're away from everything else so you get this euphoric feeling; you just feel free. It's good for a family, to just enjoy yourself and have fun, especially if it's your first time on a yacht.

Peter Berg

It's prominent in the family room. I enjoy playing table tennis. My kids enjoy playing. It's something that you can just pick up and play quickly.

Angelina Jolie

Second to my children, spending time with refugees and other persons of need around the world has been the greatest gift, ... It's been the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

Duke Ramey

This has been the greatest waste of human resources I've ever seen.

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.

Philip Mote

In the last year or so, this has really taken off like a freight train without brakes.

Danny Sullivan

In the last year and a half, (A9) hasn't skyrocketed in popularity.

Eric Skrum

In the last two years, we're seeing more and more communities saying, 'We just don't want to use the technology.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Andrew Niccol

Some people think 'Lord of War' is a political film,

Daniel Petrocelli

Some people think it's a waste of time to go to trial here.

Liam Hemsworth

Southern people remind me a lot of Australia.

Jim Anderson

So we're trying to let people know that we will automatically enroll them in Part D and there is no premium at all,

Susan Murray

So we're telling people they should know what they're paying.

Mark Rylance

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

E. O. Wilson

so that the will of the people can be upheld.

J. J. Johnson

Once you go out and start making plays, they don't say that anymore, ... You just have to play and show people what you can do.

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.

Tony Parker

In France, if you talk to little boys, they know all of the NBA players and not one single Pro A player.

Urban Meyer

But what I didnt want to have happen, and I made this clear to Jeremy (Florida AD), if I am able to go coach, I want to coach at one place, the University of Florida. It would be a travesty, it would be ridiculous to all of a sudden come back and get the feeling back, get the health back, feel good again and then all of a sudden go throw some other colors on my shirt and go coach? I dont want to do that. I have too much love for this University and these players and for what weve built.

Robert Manne

The Australian sees itself not as a mere newspaper, but as a player in the game of national politics, calling upon the vast resources of the Murdoch empire and the millions of words it has available to it to try to make and unmake governments.

Rogers Hornsby

Players who stand flat footed and swing with their arms are golfers, not hitters.

Robin Trower

Oddly enough, Hendrix is not my favorite guitar player. There are very few guitar players I get feeling from.

Warren Moon

I was always geared towards either wanting to finish number one or be number one as far as the best player that I could be, or be the best player at my position in the league. I wanted that to be a constant reminder to my teammates that they looked to their leader who is wearing that number, this is what you should strive for as well.

Will Oldham

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.

Zakk Wylde

Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

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.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Bobby Cox

This year is different, ... We have 11 for about four.

Dustin Hoffman

I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.

Adolf Hitler

Every year a thousand kilometers of motor-roads will be opened until the greatest work in the history of mankind is completed.

Adolf Hitler

Thus one of Europe's most serious crises will be ended, and all of us, not only in Germany but those far beyond our frontiers, will then in this year for the first time really rejoice at the Christmas festival. It should for us all be a true Festival of Peace.

Adolf Hitler

In the course of carrying through our program for which we have calculated four years, two and one-quarter million out of six million unemployed have already received employment again within a period of eight short months.