Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Valentine

Rule No. 1 is you don't make the third out at third base with Mike Piazza coming up.

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.

Charles Foster

What good decision-makers do is really surprising. There is all that stuff, but they think about the one thing that is most important, and that's what they base their decision on.

Mike Fox

What a story Henry is - going from third base to their starting rotation. He's just been unbelievable. He just doesn't walk people.

Albert Pujols

I learned to play (baseball) on the streets in the Dominican Republic when I was 8 yrs old.

Albert Pujols

I try to spend as much time as possible with God and my family. That's more important than anything I'm doing in baseball.

Douglas MacArthur

Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb... he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.

Don Baylor

Don Baylor, New York Yankees DH, on Billy Martin and his predecessor Yogi Berra: Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.

Don Drysdale

Where do you want it?

Bill Hicks

How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the f-k? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?

Barack Obama

Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

Adam Savage

That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.

Anna Wintour

Go get a job. Whether it’s working as a designer or working in a restaurant and then doing your own thing in your own time, it’s a reality of life. In the end it’s going to be helpful to you and so many others.

Angus T. Jones

Committing yourself to some kind of job that isn't committed to God is going to bring so much trouble into your life. It's not good and not something I would suggest that someone seek.

Anish Kapoor

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form

Ani Difranco

Having more exposure is kind of a bittersweet thing for me, honestly, because it's nice to have a little more job security in life now.

Ani Difranco

I love to exercise my creativity in many ways but as each year of specialization goes by I feel further and further from my other creative selves. I used to be able to see myself doing many things and sometimes I still long for a job that involves less pressure and grappling with people but, as you say, I am one of the lucky ones so I try to just focus on feeling lucky and carry on!

Andy Hertzfeld

It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an incredible, rigorous, technical element to it, which I like because you have to do very precise thinking. On the other hand, it has a wildly creative side where the boundaries of imagination are the only real limitation.