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baseball football country
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. Bobby Fischer
baseball team people
It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw. Michael Lewis
baseball running home
Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it. Michael Lewis
baseball player television
There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on a baseball field, before a live audience of thirty thousand, and a television audience of millions more, what did that say about the measurement of performance in other lines of work? If professional baseball players could be over- or under valued, who couldn't? Michael Lewis
baseball play red
The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too. Michael Lewis
baseball culture speak
Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture. Michael Lewis
baseball volleyball eye
Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an inadequate tool for learning what you needed to know to evaluate baseball players and baseball games. Think about it. One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks. The difference between a good hitter and an average hitter is simply not visible-it is a matter of record Michael Lewis
baseball tradition profit
Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time. Michael Lewis
baseball athletic terrible
I wasnt athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible. Matt Long
chance defeat ourselves protect series
To protect a defeat and still go down 1-0 in the series is pointless. We've got to give ourselves a chance to win. Shaun Pollock
chance helping start
It's not how you start the season, it's how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that's what you play for. You don't play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series. Albert Pujols
chance conference winning
We've got a chance to play for a conference championship and a chance to play for a winning season." () Cal McCombs
chance stay winning
We've got a chance to come out and keep flying. As long as we're winning and still have this feeling, then I think we should stay airborne. Trent Strickland
chance
We've got a chance to be special. We've got a chance to be very, very special. Sam Cassell
chance competing everybody excited group
Everybody we have competing has a chance to do something. I'm excited about the group we've got. Steve Lynn
chance deserves everybody mean provide second
Everybody deserves a second chance and we're here to provide that. That doesn't mean we're going to let things slide, either. Walt Jocketty
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Everyone who wanted an opportunity to speak, got a chance to speak. These are people who had an opportunity to interface with policy makers in a matter that they might not have otherwise had. They were looking at the problem of poverty from so many angles, but they were of one accord. Patricia Wright
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Everyone who has been in this industry has had a chance to participate in something very exciting. It is kind of like early steam engines or factories or something. The timing was right for the people who got to do it. And that is a lucky thing for t Bill Gates
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I'd rather not have the 1-hole. She doesn't have too much early speed. But she's brave. She's got a decent shot. You've got to be a little lucky from the rail, luckier than if you have the outside. Bobby Frankel
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I had full rides to Nebraska, West Virginia, Marshall, Youngstown State and Pitt, ... But I struggled with my grades and couldn't play Division I. Billy Blanks
good horse might people rabbit rabbits running using
Sometimes running a rabbit works, sometimes it backfires. People have been using rabbits for hundreds of years. The rabbit has to be a good horse because they might not necessarily be able to do the job. Nick Zito
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I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got. Carroll O'Connor
good huge run third win
It was a huge win for us. We got on a good run in the third quarter. Jody Bass
good great leaders-and-leadership seniors students
These seniors were great leaders. They were all good students and great people. Lynn Meger
good maintain news property trying
Is it a challenge, but the good news for them is that it has been a sleepier brand, so it's not as if they are trying to maintain a property at its peak. Marshal Cohen
good meeting nobody team
I showed up at the team meeting (Saturday) and nobody told me to get out, so it's good news, Craig Krenzel
good imagine job reason till
I see no reason to quit. I can't imagine walking away from being Big Bird. I mean, that's an awfully good job that there's not too many of them. So I just want to keep doing it till I can't do it anymore. Caroll Spinney
good happy
I should be happy but right now it doesn't feel so great. It's a good accomplishment but I know it could have better. Matt Lee
good
I should be European, man. I'm long and lean. I'd look good in a trench coat. J. B. Smoove