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.

Ron Gardenhire

As long as I'm running this baseball team, we will play this game with respect.

Robert Fick

Ramon, before he got hurt, was tops in baseball as far as what he did behind the plate and beside it. To have those two guys and me as an emergency guy is going to be pretty good.

Matt Hall

Professional baseball is a dream, but for what they (the Angels) were trying to offer, it wasn't nearly enough to get me away from a tradition like this.

Ed Yanes

Probably one of the best hitting hands that I've worked with in baseball or softball. She's got a little pop in her bat. She should do some exciting things here for a couple of years. People have already shown interest in Jacquie and Dore before we've even played a game, based on what they've done in the fall and what they've done in the past. They're trying to take them from me already.

Ed Goren

People who don't like baseball say it's a slow game. It's only slow if the director sits on the center-field camera and waits for the next pitch to come. Our philosophy is to use close-up shots to enhance the action.

Tim Brosnan

People can say whatever they want to say, but the facts speak for themselves, ... When it comes to network television, baseball is the No. 2 sport.

Gary Hatch

People get mesmerized by the length of the game and think it's boring and that sort of thing. If you really are a fan of baseball and you know what to be looking for, the game becomes a lot more fun. There' a lot more to it.

Mike Shannon

People forget now, but these stadiums ... were built to handle baseball, football, concerts, soccer. They were multipurpose stadiums.

Roy Sommer

Some teams just have a certain team's number. Look at the Cleveland Indians last year. Tampa Bay couldn't beat anybody. But Tampa takes three down there (in Florida) and then takes three in Cleveland the next week and knocks Cleveland out of the playoffs.

Kenneth Bacon

Speaking as the President's chief of staff, I think you are doing the President an enormous disservice. One, it will leak. Two, it will be politically and diplomatically disastrous when it leaks I think your invasion plan is a dangerous plan even to have on the table in the position of being leaked I would throw it in Tampa Bay and hope the sharks would eat it.

Dennis Bailey

Quoddy Bay has looked at several communities for a possible storage facility for LNG.

Clay Matthews III

Quite honestly, I live in California in the off season. Going off to Green Bay is just like two different walks of life - I hunt, fish, practice with firearms. Back in California, it's spend time at the beach, go to the movies.

Linda Sims

Perhaps Hudson's Bay decided that as long as they got a little bit of sweetener, so they could look a bit better, they would take the money and run.

John Farley

There will be rain in the South Bay and East Bay pushing away through Wednesday evening. On Thursday, there will be on and off showers, with temperatures reaching the low-to-mid 60's around the Bay Area.

Jose Ferreira

The San Francisco Bay Area has more VC firms and dollars invested than all East Coast cities combined.

Steve Perry

It would be extremely damaging to the NFL as a brand to move this franchise, because you're going to see over the next year the recovery of New Orleans become equated with American patriotism. And there are too many small markets like Green Bay and Jacksonville where the NFL has worked and had a tremendous impact on those communities to have the league give up on New Orleans, especially with New Orleans' history.

Ted Thompson

It was a brief conversation. Naturally, he was disappointed. I thanked him for all he has done for the Green Bay Packers over the last six years. I think he's done a fine job under some difficult circumstances and maintained a winning tradition of the Green Bay Packers.

Jack Ma

Currently, it seems the second phase has been completed smoothly and even better than my expectations. Now we are entering the third phase of reshaping.

Michael Patrick Hearn

Frank Baum knew at once he had written something special when he completed 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.'

Mao Asada

I'm so happy to have completed the two triple axels. I wasn't really thinking about winning this championship too much. I was more concerned with trying to land the two triple axels.

Chris Coffey

We just completed the orientation process for 40 new hires from other facilities, and we are looking to hire more. Some may return to their home hospitals, but for others there will be no hospital to return to.

Burhanuddin Abdullah

We have to strive for the completion of legal and institutional facilities this year. I hope it can be completed in the first semester or the third quarter of 2006 at the latest.

Jeanette Woods

I don't see how it's equitable. We're putting more money into schools already completed when other schools aren't getting any.

Bill Stoneman

He's now completed about a year and a half of superb performances. For him to be knocking on the door at 20 wins really shouldn't surprise anyone.

Burton Richter

I completed my senior thesis on the quadratic Zeeman effect in hydrogen.

Mark Waggoner

In the next month to month-and-a-half, we're going to hit $70 a barrel, and I would expect $75 to $85 by the summer. We're just going to be taking the supplies down until refinery maintenance is completed around the end of the month.

Jonathan Lamy

These conversions are simple notionally, but there is a lot of devil in the detail.

Bible Bible

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Thomas Carlyle

Sarcasm is the language of the devil, for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it

Jerry Lee Lewis

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

Jane Jacobs

In wretched outcomes, the devil is in the details.

Desiderius Erasmus

'Tis an easier matter to raise the devil than to lay him.

Eduardo Galeano

There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.

Billy Graham

Transcendental meditation is evil because when you are meditating, it opens space within you for the devil to enter.

Bronson Arroyo

The reason I took a discount is because I love playing here and I want to stay here my whole career. They (agents) worried that I would be traded to a small-market team like the Royals or Devil Rays.

Bob Howry

As a visiting player, it's motivating because you hear their fans get all excited and you want to quiet them down. And that's what we did tonight.

Hilery Walker

People get excited when we tell them that we're going to send the money down to New Orleans.

Sean Bergstedt

Actually, I didn't know for sure. I thought it might be around the record. When I had gotten back, I looked online and found out it was true, and I was pretty excited about it. ... It's just gratifying to know that I got my goal.

Sean Coste

The seniors are excited about it. Our players are excited about it. We can finish with a win. It would be four in a row.

Rollie Massimino

I've already got six kids on scholarship. It's going to happen. I'm really excited about it.

Mark Slough

Sammy is excited to be back and I think they're excited to have him back.

Jimmie Johnson

Race practice was really good, ... We weren't overly excited about our qualifying runs. So, we made some good adjustments and we will be fine.

Pat Green

I've probably played there about six times, over the last two years. It's one of my favorites -- I think it's incredible, ... I think that good music does well in New York City, and that's what I'm excited about.

Torey Lovullo

I've opened up in this stadium and it's been a tough go. We're excited to be going South and we're going as far South as we possibly can.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Austin Mahone

The British fans are very intense, maybe even more so than fans in the U.S.! They're great.

Buck Showalter

The big thing was Curt Schilling, he was obviously on top of his game. We ran into a great pitcher today. It's disappointing.

David Lewis

The big question is: Is it too little, too late? I think in great part, yes.

George Savile

A very great memory often forgotteth how much time is lost by repeating things of no use

O. J. Simpson

Aw, Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.

Josh Page

Avon had a lot to do with our shooting stats. They played great defense. They took away our inside game.

Heinz Jungwirth

Austria has great relations with the IOC. We don't want to put anything under the table.

James Coleman

A truly great hug comes when you squeeze just hard enough to share a heartbeat.

Michael Armstrong

are not in the consumer's interest and should be denied.

Elouise Cobell

The senator is from Montana, but has never taken an interest in it.

Wendy Cukier

The thing that I'm the most interested in ... are the demographics shifts and the differences between the sort of 15- to 24-year-olds who are going to be the workers of tomorrow and the boomers.

Melissa McCarthy

I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue. I always wonder: Who's her weird friend? I like the oddballs.

Dave Kraft

I've always been interested in politics but couldn't get involved before because of my career.

David Lagercrantz

I've always been interested in people who think out of their time, and I have this passion, actually, for science. I'm just so enormously interested in how, when you think of these revolutionary ideas, other people get threatened, especially if you are different.

Julie Furbacher

I've always been interested in dogs. I just do it out of love for them.

Tony Richardson

I've always been more interested in the kitchen-sink elements,

Brian Griese

I've always had a lot of respect for Rod, and if they have interest in me, I would love to go up there and see what the interest is.

Barry Sanders

If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson.

J. G. Ballard

A ton of Proust isn’t worth an ounce of Ray Bradbury.

John Arlott

Ray Illingworth is relieving himself in front of the pavilion.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Bob Freehan

This is not a new thing. It has been successful in other schools.

Brett Hull

I think the biggest thing for me is being able to adjust to the way the game has changed. It's basically a 180-degree turn from the style I like to play. That's what I think I'm most proud of, being able to fit into this style of game and still be fairly successful.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

It's even harder to stay at the top in sports than it is to get there.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

Bertrand Russell

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Benjamin Disraeli

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

Brian Tracy

Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor.

Brian Tracy

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

Brian Tracy

If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you'd eventually get the same result they do.

Derek Jeter

The season's not over. What if we win the division? We don't have to worry about Tampa Bay.

George Hamlin

Tampa is always going to be in the picture, unfortunately.

Dave Bush

On the whole, not very good. I think today kind of typified it,

Rhonda Smith

It was very tough. And even today it's still tough.

Sharan Burrow

The work is there today and it will be there tomorrow for independent contractors.

Carine Roitfeld

Today there is too much retouching, and I don't like it, except on me.

Jared Diamond

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

Diane Ackerman

The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.

Dennis Ritchie

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.

Eike Batista

I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.

Deepak Chopra

Today, I behold all the abundance that surrounds me.