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.

Matt Kemp

I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games.

Matt Kemp

Everybody used to say that baseball players can't dress and athletes can't dress. You know, a lot of athletes now are trying to prove everybody wrong, though there are some athletes that try too hard and try to do over-the-top things. But me, I try to be simple and just make whatever I'm wearing look good.

Maya Angelou

If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed to stand there and turn the other cheek, so he or she can get a better angle at taking your head off.

Max de Pree

A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.

Matthew Modine

It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them.

Mark Russell

You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game.

Phil Jackson

A coach's main job is to reawaken a spirit in which the players can blend together effortlessly.

Mike Reed

Linux is now the fastest-growing software and powers eight of the 10 fastest supercomputers in the world.

Wolf Blitzer

I will work enthusiastically for any of the non-Lieberman eight who might get the nomination.

Kim Clijsters

I won't be the only one in shape there, ... Lindsay has been great, too. It is the last tournament for everyone in the top eight and they all will give it their best.

Aaron Small

I was thinking about my career, and it's been eight years since I've come back to Spring Training in consecutive years with the same team. It's nice to come in, people know you and you know them. It's a little more relaxed.

John Kane

I think picking Georgetown helped me out a lot. I was sweating that Villanova-Arizona game big time. The thing is everyone is going to suffer some upsets. The key is still having six or seven teams left in the elite eight or three in the Final Four.

Jim Boeheim

We really should be thinking, like, eight or 10 more teams get in.

Dave Huppert

We got eight hits today. We just couldn't get the big one we needed. They got the hit they needed. That was the difference.

Joel Allen

We got down too much too fast. They just outmanned us and had too much team speed. At times, it was like eight of them out there at once.

Brandon Lane

We finally made the film eight years later.

Percy Sledge

I'd liked this girl all through high school. After we graduated, we got together for a while, but she left me for another man.

Kim Ens

This isn't something where we want to scare people at all.

Donna Jones

This is the dirtiest, scariest thing I've ever seen. When it comes to politics in this city, people don't play fair.

Ken Davis

This is Philadelphia, people are used to (politicians) getting indicted,

Jeanna Mastrodicasa

This is part of the risk of running, that people will say things about you.

Paul Costello

The whole idea that started this program was to get people out of harm's way.

Gary Caille

The whole idea is that the vehicle doesn't need to survive an attack, but the people do.

Hilary Clinton

The United States military, because of people like you, can do things for a troubled world that no one else can do. And I am profoundly grateful,

Curtis Hanson

This girl, I can't tell you how much ... well, just how proud I am of her. She is going to surprise so many people with this.

Harvey Houtkin

That's where all the people who are day trading, or supposedly day trading, are getting raped or killed,