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.

Andy Keith

We did not commit a single error in the game. When you can go five innings in high school baseball without committing an error, you improve your chances of winning.

Ricky Gervais

Sometimes I'll be confident and go into a shop and say, "Hello, yeah, all right," and then the next day, if someone looks at me or talks to me, I just don't know what to do. If you're walking down the street with a baseball cap, you might be fine. But if you're in a pub and you see someone look at you, you think the worst thing in the world now is if they come over. It's a really weird feeling.

Branch Rickey

Some day I'm going to have to stand before God, and if He asks me why I didn't let that [Jackie] Robinson fellow play ball, I don't think saying 'because of the color of his skin' would be a good enough answer.

M. Wolfe

Our slogan is 'Money for Nothing, Checks for Free,'

Kevin Cosgrove

The one thing about Steve, he's got a tremendous motor. But he still has a ways to go as far as his checks and things like that. We're looking for the exactness in his play, and that's got to continue to develop.

Kirk Douglas

Because I love you, I will be checking up on you, ... You have honored me and I thank all of you.

Katherine Miller

This one looked like we needed to have it checked out,

Andrej Meszaros

This was a big opportunity for me to show the coach I can play 30 minutes if need be. My focus was to keep Jagr in check and not letting him score any goals. I think I had a pretty good game.

O. J. Simpson

License holders should always check their tags immediately upon receipt and then place them in a safe and secure location.

Nick Swisher

No one ever thought Mark Ellis could do this. He's a name to be remembered. If people don't know who he is, turn on the television and check him out. If he doesn't win comeback player, that's ridiculous.

Jim Roberts

No one writes a check at this event,

Robert Hammonds

Neither team really got into a rhythm offensively. It was a gut check game and we made some plays late. I told the kids that we may be 10-8 but we haven't lost a close game all year.

Brad Goreski

When you hear fear knocking on the door, most of the time when you answer it there’s nothing there. It’s just you holding yourself back.

Dean Koontz

Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.

Diane Keaton

...I also have an extended family. The people who stayed. The people who became more than friends; the people who open the door when I knock. That's what it all boils down to. The people who have to open the door, not because they always want to but because they do.

Edgar Allan Poe

And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there, and nothing more.

Bill Ross

Everything around the gallery was destroyed. But Antonio's robots right inside the door were fine. It was like Passover.

John Curran

As soon as they switched over, I knew it was Kristi on the ground. They said Kristi Yamaoka, and I was out the door. I didn't lock my door or anything.

Ronald Reagan

It doesn't do any good to hold the door open for someone if they don't have a way to walk through it. And if they do have a way to pass through it then you probably don't need to hold it open because they can open it for themselves.

Steve House

You can’t coach desire, and no matter how fancy your training plan or how high your stated goals are, it comes down to getting out the door and doing the work day after day.

Tiger Woods

I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect. I am dealing with my behavior and personal failings behind closed doors with my family. Those feelings should be shared by us alone.

Eckhart Tolle

Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego.

Bill Cowher

We have a very healthy organization. It starts at the top. There's no ego involved. We try to get things done as a team.

Tariq Ramadan

We have to free the Muslim mind from the obsession with limits and rules and forgetting the path and objective. This is truly a liberating process, and for me this is Islam: liberation from the ego, and in this case liberating ourselves from the wrong understanding of the religion.

Rajneesh

God is the collective ego of the world

Rick Pitino

Ego is the greatest killer of one's potential

Simone Elkeles

Mr. Latino with the big ego got bested by a ditzy, blond bimbo.

Simon Cowell

Of course I have an ego, but you have to have an ego. You have to be incredibly competitive. I can get competitive at times, way too much, and it becomes a little bit obsessive.

Swami Vivekananda

When I see an object there is no will; when its sensations are carried to the brain, there comes the reaction, which says "Do this", or "Do not do this", and this state of the ego-substance is what is called will

Swami Vivekananda

This rascal ego must be obliterated.

Brian Tracy

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.

Billie Jean King

Create your legacy, and pass the baton.

Diane Ackerman

Success produces success, just as money produces money.

Mitch Kapor

E-mail is a victim of its own success.

Dale Carnegie

If you want to develop courage, do the thing you fear and keep on doing it until you have a record of successful experiences behind you. That is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Dale Carnegie

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Donald Rumsfeld

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Dan Colen

Its such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you dont want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.

Anna Pavlova

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Bertrand Russell

Worry is a form of fear.

Dalai Lama

If there is a solution to a problem, there is no need to worry. And if there is no solution, there is no need to worry.

Sophocles

To him who is afraid, everything rustles.

Max Lucado

Has worrying about tomorrow every changed it?

Mason Cooley

Worry is not thought; complaining is not action.

Paul Woolpert

If that's something I have to worry about, we're in trouble. But honestly, I don't think that's a concern.

Chris Givens

If we do our job, we won't have to worry about the what ifs.

Nick Saban

If we just didn't do that kind of stuff, we wouldn't have to worry about it.

Robert Herzfeld

I have more important things to worry about.