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.

David Wright

You look at it, you've got to take one game at a time and play good baseball. Yes, we started hot, but there have been a ton of teams that start hot, then they go into a drought after that. So we have to stay focused and continue doing what we're doing.

Mark Ellis

You look at Frank's numbers and he's amazing. He's already a presence around here. You couldn't be a baseball fan in the '90s and not follow Frank Thomas. He's as good as there was in the game.

John Gibbons

First of all, he's been in the organization a long time. Second, he's had a lot of these guys, ... He's a good baseball man, and he's paid his dues. And he's from the South.

Randy Johnson

There's really not one person in this clubhouse we could have been without,

Tom Slater

There was a little extra bounce in their step. With the hard work they put in ever single day, it makes them feel better to know that they're being rewarded for hard their hard work. The most important thing in baseball is confidence. Obviously when you win, it gives you a little more.

Jim Rew

There's something about playing the game of baseball that lights up a youngster's eyes but for children facing mental and physical challenges, that opportunity can often be a difficult first test. The Miracle League gives these children the opportunity to get out in the sunshine and enjoy the game of baseball in its purest form.

Scott Wallsten

There's no real justification for public financing of stadiums. They don't generate economic benefits. They don't help revitalize neighborhoods. The economic research on this is pretty solid. The only studies that show positive effects are the ones commissioned by baseball and people who want a stadium built.

Jeff Bagwell

There's no other situation this would be OK. A normal guy, that wasn't going to play. It fit for our situation at the time. It's not something I would advocate. But Roger Clemens is a gift from the baseball gods. Anything he does is a gift. ... Craig (Biggio) and I have never had a ring. Our best opportunity to get one was to have Roger around. He tends to his obligations, his kids. And it's not like the man comes in here and pitches five innings and gives up six every day.

Naylond Hayes

They don't come no better than him. He's extremely humble.

Bruce Pearl

They were extremely prepared and did a really nice job themselves defensively, but when you hold an opponent to 30 percent shooting and force them to turn it over 21 times, I think that says a little something about the effort.

Chris Drury

They've been skating the heck out of him. Obviously, a game is different than practice, but he's been working extremely hard. I wouldn't be surprised if he slides right in and does well right off the bat.

Josh Pastner

They run a lot of similar stuff, and (John) runs a lot of really good stuff too, to try to get mismatch situations. They're extremely well-coached.

Lindy Ruff

They've all had a pretty strong camp. In the scrimmages they've played extremely well at different times, but preseason is a more valuable time.

Jim Sheehan

They started off a little slow, but as the game moved along, they picked it up. They played extremely well. This was a good win.

Rocky Long

It's not necessarily a disadvantage to play so quickly, but it will be tough. They're a very talented team, so we're going to have to make a lot of improvements and be extremely focused with the time that we do have this week.

Rohan Verplank

For him to qualify for Junior Olympics is simply remarkable. He's just an extremely natural skier who knows how to turn a ski.

Jim Campbell

For every three mergers and acquisitions, one is done extremely well, one fails and one kind of narrowly succeeds or fails.

Michael Ignatieff

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

Paulo Coelho

Courage in the path is what makes the path manifest itself.

William Shakespeare

Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.

Haruki Murakami

This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.