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.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

David Gibson

That track record has made the latest New York guessing game as speculative as a Nasdaq investment, and a slew of names have been floated in recent months, only to come back to earth.

Nancy Diers

That's what's so hard for me to swallow as a coach. We were so close, but we didn't take our game to the next step to pull out the wins. We're just kind of hovering right now, and we're not doing what it takes to get to the next step.

Matt McCool

That's why that first out is so important in the seventh inning. Once again, Cody pitched a great game (he was a 2-1 loser to Bolles a week ago), then we go and make it interesting. Poor guy." ()

Jeff Evans

That's why he's a great player. He makes all his teammates better, which he did in that game.

Andray Blatche

That's what me being here was about, to get in game shape. This is really helping me out for my conditioning. Everything down here's been great for me.

Larry Boomer

That's what makes it more rewarding, winning a game where every point is contested, every pass is contested.

Chris Hovan

That's why you never look at the (betting) line. You never look if you're playing at home or away. You just look at the next game on the schedule.

Sidney Crosby

That's just the nature of the game. There was a lot made out of this game and I think things just escalated a little bit.

Todd Pratt

The way I look at it, it was a great game.

William Channing

The wise only possess ideas, the great part of mankind are possessed by them.

Henry David Thoreau

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them

Keith Tkachuk

These are young kids. This is the foundation. You need great goaltending, and that's what we've had over the years with Mike Richter.

Keith Tkachuk

These are young kids. This is the foundation, ... You need great goaltending, and that's what we've had over the years with Mike Richter.

Al Bloom

The rings are great sellers because they keep the man hard and they stimulate the woman.

P. Herbert

There would be no great ones if there were no little ones

Tom Rasmussen

This is a win-win solution for these three great organizations and our precious open space,

JamesOn Curry

This is a proving ground for us. It's a great opportunity for our team to get better and start getting ready for next season.

Cheng Chin

At the moment, I don't see how this can be done at much higher temperatures.

Frank McKenna

It is emotional, just because so many people seemed to hold such high hopes for me.

Chris Grisanti

That will surprise the Street and lead to a higher stock price.

Ed Silliere

That's very bearish. The imports are higher than we anticipated.

Terry Lewis

I was pleased for him. Now my expectations are higher for him.

Jeffrey Humphreys

I would like to see it a lot higher than it was, even at its peak.

Robert Stovall

Looking at every shock we have sustained since World War I, the trend has been to fall, then rally, and then move on to higher highs.

Rob Blake

I was trying to go up high and he was right there. He made it look real easy.

Jessica Iverson

While $30 million is a lot of money for most people, we just don't see as much interest now until those jackpots get higher than they ever have been before.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Baruch Spinoza

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Diana Wynne Jones

Hope is the forward-looking part of memory.

Ken Holland

You hope nobody's involved. I don't know much.

Rick Wood

You hope (it doesn't take as long to get back), but it has been awhile. We went through some teams where we didn't have a lot of size. This team has been a real joy. They've come together and the size helps.

Buck Showalter

You hope he pitches well enough to make us keep him.

Larry Brown

You hope by watching it that they'll do something about it. It's kind of befuddling right now because we talk about the same things over and over again.

Lance Armstrong

You have to live with the crashes, and hope you don't get into one,

Demi Lovato

As a kid I'd play with homemade recipes, like putting pineapple on my face to exfoliate my skin and doing facial steams with lavender or peppermint oils. I just loved doing stuff like that. It's what motivated me to launch my skin care line.

Colin Egglesfield

The reason I love kids so much is because they're so honest, so you know right away if they like you or they don't.

Jason Treutelaar

We will be all right there. It's a matter of the kids making plays out there.

Kris Alexander

Those two stood up and said they didn't want to do that again, and the rest of the kids are saying they train with them, why can't they go to state, too.

Pete Noble

Those two kids were special. But we've got some kids that might have been under the radar.

Billy Donovan

This team is just different. Different kids, different time, different everything.

Lesle Gallimore

This was a tough go as an opener, but I thought our kids played pretty well, especially with all of the new players in our program. To be up as long as we were was encouraging.

Terry Farrell

This was a physical game. Kids were down all over the place.

Limor Livnat

This war is not our war, ... As a mother, not just as a minister, send your kids to school. It's the right thing to do.

Dylan Lauren

I've been entrepreneurial since middle school. I was always arranging bake sales, dances and school trips to raise money for the Dalton School.

Dylan O'Brien

Yeah, I've only been acting since I was 18 out of high school.

Dylan O'Brien

I didn't have that many friends my first few years of high school. It was very cliquey and I'm super shy, so it was hard to make friends.

Dylan O'Brien

I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in school, which was film studies. That was what I intended on doing, but I didn't go away to a university because I wanted to stay in L.A. and audition while I took classes, so I elected to go to a community college and just take G.E. courses. It was terrible.

Douglas Bader

Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.

Douglas Booth

I got cast in a school play and I fell in love with that. I felt comfortable on stage and found out it was a brilliant way of expressing myself and I was happy and I could do it.

Douglas Booth

When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it, you sort of rebel against it in a certain way.

Douglas Booth

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I am dyslexic, so I really struggled in school. I knew I was never going to sit behind a desk or do something involving numbers.

Doug Stanhope

He's my usual type of fan... a school shooter who didn't have bullets and now he's all awkward and alone.

George Carlin

Surround yourself with what you love.

Ralph Lauren

Enjoy your family. Do things that you like to do. Stay strong. That's the secret to remaining happy.

Gary Brackett

It's exciting. But I'm not one to get content. I'm one for staying hungry. I think we can play better.

David Castillo

It was one shot. The thing is, it was the same stuff in me all three times. That's what happened. That's what it was, because it stays in your system. It was the same stuff, and there was nothing I could do about it.

Helen Mirren

You could build three hospitals with the cost of one film and I take that very seriously.

Sonny Naclerio

It's just the three of us doing this job. Me, myself and I.

Harry Harrison

They've been through three scripts, 14 rewrites. They can't get it right,

Pat Riley

It's not easy. We need him on the court. I don't know how we're going to get around that. Two of his first three fouls were offensive.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.

Paul Schimmel

Three tons of confetti, ... Well, it's MOCA. Get out the big guns.

Tom McLean

We're averaging about three a day right now in Citrus County.

Aaron Levie

I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, 'Why can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?'

Brian Murphy

We had 500 critical-care patients. We had only three deaths.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Ted Jr.

I think it's probably his time to go, and I think he will go.

Stephen Toulouse

It is on the table. Every time any kind of exploitation is going on, it is on the table.

Rick Barnes

He had it going. They were having a tough time with him.