Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

David Wright

You look at it, you've got to take one game at a time and play good baseball. Yes, we started hot, but there have been a ton of teams that start hot, then they go into a drought after that. So we have to stay focused and continue doing what we're doing.

Mark Ellis

You look at Frank's numbers and he's amazing. He's already a presence around here. You couldn't be a baseball fan in the '90s and not follow Frank Thomas. He's as good as there was in the game.

John Gibbons

First of all, he's been in the organization a long time. Second, he's had a lot of these guys, ... He's a good baseball man, and he's paid his dues. And he's from the South.

Randy Johnson

There's really not one person in this clubhouse we could have been without,

Tom Slater

There was a little extra bounce in their step. With the hard work they put in ever single day, it makes them feel better to know that they're being rewarded for hard their hard work. The most important thing in baseball is confidence. Obviously when you win, it gives you a little more.

Jim Rew

There's something about playing the game of baseball that lights up a youngster's eyes but for children facing mental and physical challenges, that opportunity can often be a difficult first test. The Miracle League gives these children the opportunity to get out in the sunshine and enjoy the game of baseball in its purest form.

Scott Wallsten

There's no real justification for public financing of stadiums. They don't generate economic benefits. They don't help revitalize neighborhoods. The economic research on this is pretty solid. The only studies that show positive effects are the ones commissioned by baseball and people who want a stadium built.

Jeff Bagwell

There's no other situation this would be OK. A normal guy, that wasn't going to play. It fit for our situation at the time. It's not something I would advocate. But Roger Clemens is a gift from the baseball gods. Anything he does is a gift. ... Craig (Biggio) and I have never had a ring. Our best opportunity to get one was to have Roger around. He tends to his obligations, his kids. And it's not like the man comes in here and pitches five innings and gives up six every day.

Bobby Cremins

Coaching at Kentucky is not something you want to do for 20 years. You'd probably be dead. ... It's such a pressure cooker.

Bobby Frasor

Coach Williams from Day 1 was always preaching how good we could be. We could surprise everyone in America, all the analysts; we could be the darlings of America.

Amanda Smith

Coach wants me to focus more on staying down low. I have a tendency to drift out, but we need rebounds and it's my job to get them.

Brandon Jenkins

Coach wanted us to have a game like this, to get out and get after people at the defensive end. We did that in the first half, but we kind of slacked off in the second half.

Josh Peppers

Coach wanted us to go out and make sure we had a strong, strong defensive game. We tried to do that.

Chamique Holdsclaw

Coach wanted me to run the pick and roll and get to the basket.

DeAndre Rice

Coach Walters got the job. They told us and everybody is excited.

Chris Tucker

Coach (Tyrone) Nix is always talking about how your position's on the line every scrimmage, so you want to come out there and prove yourself.

Bryan Mullins

Coach told us we're going to win this game, but we're going to have to do it with confidence. We really just had that look in our eyes that we were not going to lose this game.

Todd Pratt

The way I look at it, it was a great game.

William Channing

The wise only possess ideas, the great part of mankind are possessed by them.

Henry David Thoreau

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them

Keith Tkachuk

These are young kids. This is the foundation. You need great goaltending, and that's what we've had over the years with Mike Richter.

Keith Tkachuk

These are young kids. This is the foundation, ... You need great goaltending, and that's what we've had over the years with Mike Richter.

Al Bloom

The rings are great sellers because they keep the man hard and they stimulate the woman.

P. Herbert

There would be no great ones if there were no little ones

Tom Rasmussen

This is a win-win solution for these three great organizations and our precious open space,

JamesOn Curry

This is a proving ground for us. It's a great opportunity for our team to get better and start getting ready for next season.

Brad Friedel

Being a goalkeeper gives you quite a unique perspective on things. You are part of a team yet somehow separate; there are no grey areas, with success or failure being measured in real time; and you have a physical job which you can only do well by paying attention to your mental well-being. A great goalkeeper has to have the keys to a great mindset. To be able to work well in the box, I believe you have to be able to think outside the box

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.

Bill Sweeney

You have to make them pay if they throw an errant pass ? and (Ryan) really did a nice job of that.

Dan Quayle

You have a part-time job and that's better than no job at all.

Jessica Davenport

With her, it's not about scoring. It's about running our team. That's her job and she does it well.

Tony Rossi

You had a net job growth. It wasn't very much, but at least it was positive.

Stephen McClure

You have to go into the job description before you start hiring. There's a tendency that people worry about 'who' rather than 'what' too quickly." ()

Albert Pujols

This year, my job was to strike out less and walk more,

Ron Artest

He played good. He played real smart tonight. He's probably one of the better players on the team right now.

Colby Armstrong

He played awesome. You see his reflexes, on little tips in front, gloving them. He's a big-time goalie.

Retief Goosen

He ran away with it. He played unbelievable.

Al Harrington

He played well. He got all the big shots.

Seth Payne

He played very well. We tried to unsettle him and we didn't get it done.

Carroll Dawson

He played very well for us this summer,

Pete Leslie

He played very well, but we still have a lot of things to fix.

Mike Messina

He played varsity for two years. He was a pleasure to coach.

Igor Andreev

He played too well. I also had some problems with my knee. But tomorrow it's going to be a different game.

Brett Favre

I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Don Meyer

Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

American working men are principals in the three-member team of capital, management, labor. Never have they regarded themselves as a servile class that could attain freedom only through destruction of the industrial economy.

Colleen Atwood

On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main source person who worked online and on the street continually looking for the proper materials.

Claudio Reyna

The contracts are structured different than athletes in America, but for me, it was good to move on and go back to playing in the premiere league, which is the best league. It was disappointing, as far as the team goes, but for me, there wasn't much I could do.

Chuck Daly

I think the Pistons have such a well rounded team, which is why they're so successful. All you have to do is look at the stats defensively and at their rebounding and scoring.

Christy Turlington

I'm flattered by the offers I receive, but there's no real strategy to the way I choose what to do these days. If I'm in a good mood and have the time, I'm more likely to consider it. Often the photographer and team are important factors, too.

Andrew Bogut

The thing with NBA teams, a lot of times they just want to get you back on the floor to play, so as a player you've got to be very, very smart.

Josh Brown

I'm going to do something. There's a little tension between us.