Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill King

He wanted to be a ballplayer but said 'I would have been a Double-A or Triple-A ballplayer at best,'

Dusty Baker

He's a ballplayer. These are things a ballplayer does -- they run the bases well, they hit well, they throw, they throw to the right base, they steal a base. I think we're very fortunate to get such a talent at such a low price.

Ron Santo

He's a Cub, there's no doubt about it. Not only is he a great ballplayer and a Hall of Famer, but he's a Chicago Cub.

Will Sheridan

He never promises anything he doesn't deliver. We know we have to earn what we get. At the same time, he was a ballplayer himself, so he understands where we're coming from.

Elijah Dukes

I learned that you can be a good ballplayer but if the spot is occupied and everybody comes out and does their job, you can't take it unless stuff happens. You just have to keep working hard and hopefully something happens and I get my chance and I make the best of it again.

Todd Steverson

The hardest part for any ballplayer is to get into a routine, stick with it and believe this routine is going to get him to the next level. He just has not played that much baseball in his career. Once we get a grasp on his game, hopefully, sooner than later, we'll see where he is.

Joe Posnanski

When I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, I believed - completely, wholeheartedly, without reservation or pause - that the Cleveland Indians were named to honor a Native American ballplayer named Louis Sockalexis, who played for Cleveland in the late 19th Century.

Rajon Rondo

Coach Smith has given me tough love, which I believe has made me a stronger ballplayer and a better person.

Alan Trammel

This is exactly what the Detroit Tigers need. He's what I call a good ballplayer who does a little bit of everything.

Alex Guerrero

I was like, 'I can't believed I missed that.' It was a one-in-a-million that I'd miss that. That goal could have taken us to OT. I wanted to win this one. I'm so bummed out right now. This one was tougher than our last lost to them. We had our chances, and that's what kills me. We had more chances.

Marcia Angell

Just look at herbal remedies. It's essentially a throwback. It's saying you go to a plant and you mush it up and you stick it in the jar and you sell it and you eat it and it's going to cure what ails you. And that's the kind of stuff that people believed in the early 19th century.

Tony Bennett

I always believed that we were going to be here. I never gave up.

Zahir Raheem

I always believed in myself when nobody else would, ... I worked hard. It wasn't a gift. I earned it.

Harry Aleman

When he said that, I believed him, that he didn't send me here.

Bobby Gonzalez

I think a lot of people believed we couldn't do it. These kids just believed in themselves. (The double-bye) is very important for this specific team because of the lack of depth.

F. Stone

I think at the start of the game we came out hard. Even though we didn't score first, we all believed in here. We all know we can do this.

Dan Monson

I think it was a real credit to our guys that they believed in the game plan and how they had to play to win.

Mack Whittle

It happened by getting up every morning and doing what we believed in and what we had passion about.

Tom Taulli

I think the Cleveland Indians are looking at the IPO market and see that it is very hot right now.

Avery Johnson

I thought this was a gutsy performance by our team. Cleveland really jumped out on us and put us in a big hole and our team responded in the second half. Our third quarter defense was pretty special.

Terry Porter

I think when Cleveland was mentioned it had nothing to do with the team as much as it did that he (would be) going back home.

Steven Campanini

We look forward to continuing the partnership with the Cleveland Clinic and we will have discussions directly with them.

Eddie Jordan

I don't even want to think about Cleveland tonight. I just want to relax and recover from the last week and a half.

Terry Stotts

Everybody seems to want to take away from accomplishments. The fact all five teams made it is a testament to each of those teams. Cleveland and us weren't in the playoffs last year, and the fact we jumped into the playoffs shows you even more about the division.

Paul Dolan

It's another big step to preserving a core that should make the Cleveland Indians a contender for years to come. He's getting the reward he deserves. He's going to be wearing our jersey for a long time, and we're happy about that.

Cal Hubbard

Excellent. It's a good group, ... We won last weekend (at the Decatur Eisenhower Cleveland Invitational) and shot 311 and 320. Those are good scores. It was ideal conditions. But the kids played well. The second day we had three girls in the 70s.

Fred Willard

Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history.

Jim Thome

The Indians are going in a way they want to go and I respect that, ... I've loved that organization and I still will.

Jim Liberatore

All of that is secondary. We are going to do nothing but get the Indians programming right.

Kelly Shackelford

Kids are being told they can't mention God.

Lionel Anderson

Kids walking to school are getting offered rides, players are getting let in line at the cafeteria, people are doing little things to show support. It's really great.

Linda Jones

Kids today need to know that people think they're special. Each day and each thing that they do is so precious.

R. L. Stine

Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.

Barbara Ward

Just to know what the kids were talking about in school was more meaningful than anything I could write in a parent newsletter,

William Lewis

Just tell my wife and kid I love them.

Jim Whitesell

I think it's a Catch-22. You're always going to run into one kid who says, 'I want to go to Ames, Iowa, or Cedar Falls.' Then there some who want to stay home. You have to find the right one.

Mike Pardon

I actually thought our kids battled well. South just has so many weapons. They?d go on spurts here and spurts there. They?re so tall and so skilled. It was too much for us.

Shelton Quarles

He couldn't be home, that's why he always had his kids around.

Lorenzo Booker

I'm like from St. Louis on that one - the 'Show Me State'.

Michael Clayton

You can't picture something natural doing something like that. It's devastating. People in Louisiana haven't seen anything like this in a long, long time. This was one of the most powerful hurricanes Louisiana has ever had to take on.

Reggie Theus

It's everything I thought it would be. Us winning at Pacific and Louisiana Tech winning. Fresno State played Creighton very strong. It bodes well for us in general.

David Stern

It was important to the Hornets and the NBA that we maintain a presence in Louisiana in anticipation of a return to New Orleans next season.

Johnny Knoxville

I love Louisiana. It's amazing.

Isaiah Stanback

Louis was going to surprise a lot of people, but he wasn't going to surprise us. What he did in that game, he can do more.

Matt Gifford

If St. Louis is 1A (as a sports town in Missouri), Springfield is 1B.

John Davidson

People I know purchased the St. Louis Blues. It's a purchase in principle. They don't own the team yet. The sale has to be ratified by the league. For me to speculate what I might do with the St. Louis Blues, well, they don't even own the team yet. I don't have anything to tell anybody.

Wes Brown

Love the show 'Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.' Being from Louisiana and a big outdoorsman, I'm a big fan of 'Duck Dynasty' as well.

Sue Monk Kidd

I have an old dog named Lily, and she's a black lab.

Colin Cooper

You'll have to wait and see. The team will be named on Friday.

Dave Wannstedt

I could've named several others who were deserving.

Wendy Squires

We are named one of the Top 10 tourist trains in the country.

Frances Townsend

We've not named them, because, frankly, they don't want to be named. They are partners and we respect that, so we're not naming them.

R. Robinson

I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.

Yancy Butler

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

John Walker Lindh

I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic.

Nate Parker

It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the things that have been swept under the rug, whether it be with the native Americans or slavery, or whatever holocaust that's happened on this soil.

John Baldacci

The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy.

Jon Voight

When I'm near a native community, I visit it. If I hear there's a spiritual person in the neighborhood, I'll seek them out.

Newt Gingrich

And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.

Elizabeth Warren

I'm proud of my Native American heritage,

Sarah Dessen

Stop it. Seriously. This isn't funny.' 'You're right.' A pause. 'It's pathetic.

David Cash

I wouldn't say it's pressure. We played our way into this position we can play our way out of it.

Stephen Jackson

He was aggressive. He didn't let the referees get in his head, he just played well. He's getting a feel for the game.

Jerry Slocum

He just played tremendously tonight. I'm proud of the way they all battled back tonight.

Shaquille O'Neal

I've always been a leader. Every team I've played on, I've led my way.

Jeff Beeman

He's a really smooth player. I wish he played for me.

Jerry Sloan

I thought we played with a lot more purpose tonight than we did the other night.

Luke Poore

I thought we played well. They just wore us down.

Susie Gardner

I thought Whitney played very well, especially considering who she was playing against.

Jim Ferraro

I think you?re going to see us (in the tournament). We have a lot of young girls, but they have played well together.