Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rich Aurilia

He could have Babe Ruth hitting behind him, ... and they'd still walk him.

Omar Vizquel

I think it's because of the controversy that's been around Barry lately and also because Babe is an icon in baseball and America. There's a lot of things involved.

Casey Stengel

I want to thank my parents for letting me play baseball. I'm thankful I had baseball knuckles and couldn't become a dentist...I got $2,100 a year when I started in the big league, and they get more money now. ...I chased the balls that Babe Ruth hit.

William Garrison

I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hand of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; -- but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD.

Jose Canseco

He is incredible. No one can even stand in his shoes - not Babe Ruth, not anyone. He's in a league of his own.

John Eastman

Our 2005 season was excellent. Several of our teams excelled in post season play, including winning the state of Nevada title in the Babe Ruth division.

Maverick Golden

I loved the thrill of the race. I didn't lose very often. I won 35 out of 36 races in 1964. Drag News Magazine called me 'the Babe Ruth of drag racing' in January 1965. I was undefeated for two years or more.

Jakob Bohme

The city Babel is the Ham-like man, who builds this city upon the earth; the tower is his self-chosen god, and divine worship. All reason-taught, from the school of this world, are the master-builders of this tower.

Dick Cook

Ed and John are the Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth of animation. They both possess the balance that is needed, John being the creative fountain and Ed being not only the technological genius but a managerial one as well.

Chris Witty

For me, the great thing about having excelled in a sport was that it was a way to feel happy. People would congratulate me on things I accomplished. I was able to be free on the ice. If I didn't have that I don't know what my life would have been.

Laura Bush

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

Pete Boone

I think you weigh all of the issues together, including the interview. It still may be close, but you've got to have all of the components.

Gia Coppola

I watched a lot of movies about teenagers, including 'The Last Picture Show,' 'American Graffiti,' 'Rumblefish.' It's one of my favorite genres.

John Powell

We have tightened just as tight as we can go including the elimination of personnel,

Gary Roberts

I'd like to wipe out the whole month, including the hurricane.

Matthew Storin

Patricia Smith is a writer of extraordinary talent and this is a tragic development. We wish her well and she retains many friends at the Globe, including myself.

Takashi Sensui

Our message is this: We're prepared to do everything that's needed to make Xbox 360 a success around the world, including Japan.

Scott Shaffer

In 12 years of coaching, including nine years here, I?d never seen an overtime game. Now I?ve seen two.

Bill Reynolds

If you go back, including the Reynolds, I?m part of the Murphy?s, the McNally?s and the Cass. My sister even married an O?Brien recently.

Terry Lanni

I am a resident of Nevada. I vote in Nevada, so if you run for office in Nevada I'm not going to vote for you,

Sarah Rafferty

I honestly think I've gotten taller since I started doing Pilates. And my posture is totally different - no more slouching!

Kurt Cobain

I have very bad posture.

Bernie Sanders

It is time for Congress to save the Postal Service, not dismantle it.

Richard Boucher

Each post will look at its security posture and reopen at an appropriate time.

Howard Rubenstein

The New York Post will have no comment.

Chuck D.

They fronted me in the post (in the second half) and they really weren't going to let me get the ball.

Flynt Leverett

It's an undeclared posture of 'regime change' on the cheap.

Brooke Svendsen

We planted a post back to stop those quick attacks.

Bernard Ebbers

Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains.

Kathleen Norris

When you come to a place where you have to left or right,' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead.

Kate DiCamillo

Normally, Edward would have found intrusive, clingy behavior of this sort very annoying, but there was something about Sarah Ruth. He wanted to take care of her. He wanted to protect her. He wanted to do more for her. (page 135)

Ken Follett

In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.

Lou Holtz

Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times.

Tony Lazzeri

They didn't get along. Gehrig thought Ruth was a big-mouth, and Ruth thought Gehrig was cheap. They were both right.

Howard Rosenkrantz

The thing about Ruth jerseys is that there aren't very many of them. When one surfaces, you go for it.

Dodie Smith

Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.

Alice Sebold

Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.

Reggie Jackson

Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.

Willie Randolph

It could be someone else toward the end of the season who could be the swing guy.

Zack Greinke

I was about 20 times smarter before this season started than I am now.

Eric Price

He was out so much before the season started that he got out of shape a little, so his wind wasn't back,

Mike Hargrove

I'd just as soon shut him down after the season is over. He's pitched enough.

Walter Savage Landor

Falsehood is for a season.

Anthony Davis

If you would have told me before the season this would have happened, I would have been a little skeptical,

Kelly Rowan

In the first season, (Kirsten) seemed really together, but there's this undercurrent of 'something's got to be up.' And (last) season you got to see kind of the underbelly of her,

Chris White

I look at the season in two parts,

Jose Guillen

I'm pretty sure if we lost, the season was done.

Luiz Scolari

There are several teams, and one of them could be Corinthians.

Noam Chomsky

There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they're not implemented fully, because the U.S. won't allow it.

David Hastings

I have had several say, 'I don't want to go,' and I said, 'I'm sorry, you're going.'

Reinhard Selten

I did several types of work about several investigations of application of game theory to international relations.

Marcia Powers

If you would have told us several years ago that we would be doing all these hikes, we would have said you were crazy.

Joe Girardi

I have to make several duplicates of every scorecard.

John Allen

I had talked to several other guys, but (Jones) was, in my opinion, a better candidate.

Fred Couples

These two guys, they're going to win this thing several more times.

Larry Parker

I stick by what I say. He (Dr. Atkinson) was there, but so were several others. It was implied, even if it wasn't said outright.

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

David Wojciechowski

He?s going to play. It?s the state championship game.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Larry Small

What we are trying to do is make a statement -- If you can't come to the Smithsonian in Washington, we will come to you,

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Jim Betker

He has a taste of a state championship.

Quinnetta Claytor

We can do it, we can win state championships.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Robin Trower

The States still has the best audiences by far.

Brad Richards

I would say it was one of the better teams I've seen.

Trey Smith

Just the way they work together was really unique. A lot of other teams don't have that.

Dave Orlandini

He can penetrate. He can take it to the hole. Other teams have to worry about him.

Jack Rio

I think we're right there with a clump of teams that are on the verge.

Brad Joyner

I think it was huge. (Rocky Mount) is going to be one of the better teams in the conference.

Nate Robinson

I think we're one of the better teams (in the state). But we won't know about a lot of the teams until the end of the year.

Henry Hall

I do not think many teams will win at Elgin so I will take the draw.

Milan Brown

Other teams just were not going to let him do what he did.

Kathy Bocock

I know in the past, my teams would get upset about losing, but this team is really getting tired of losing.

Larry Clark

I'd like to win one more title to make it an even dozen,

William Cowper

Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.

Henry Rollins

When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension

Marcia Gay Harden

The trophy wife must be in her 20s to earn the title 'trophy wife.'

Kay Redfield Jamison

One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest.

Margaret Thatcher

Socialists have always spent much of their time seeking new titles for their beliefs, because the old versions so quickly become outdated and discredited.

John Flavel

Christ's resurrection is the ground-work of our hope. And the new birth is our title or evidence of our interest in it.

Jonathan Ive

Titles or organizational structures, that’s not the lens through which we see our peers,

James M. Barrie

All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title.

Richard Petty

If you ain't trying to cheat a little, you ain't likely to win much.

Richard Petty

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Richard P. Feynman

Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.

Richelle Mead

This isn’t a game. We don’t want mediocre employees who can keep the status quo. We want souls. We want to win. And you’ve spent most of your time here being mediocre.

Retief Goosen

You can't really measure your game. You can shoot seven under and lose and you can shoot even and win.

Ryan Lochte

I'm just going to go out there and try to win the race. When you go out there trying to go for a record, you're usually not going to get it.

Rose Macaulay

If words are to change their meanings, as assuredly they are, let each user of language make such changes as please himself, put up his own suggestions, and let the best win.

Ronaldinho

My best has to be for Barcelona against Villarreal in 2006 - that is the one I am asked most about, and it is the one I am most proud of. Xavi chipped the ball to me, I chested it down, twisted and hit an overhead kick. It was the final goal in a 4-0 win.

Ronda Rousey

The Olympics is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I was lucky enough to go twice, but most people only get one chance. And in judo you can train your whole life and it'll come down to a split second: You can lose everything or win anything.