Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Hearns

Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night.

Bobby Thomson

I was a raw rookie in Arizona during spring training in 1947, but I could do three things. I could run. I had a good arm. And I could hit with power.

Troy Vincent

We want them to know what it's like to be a leader, what it's like to be a team player because those things carry on in everyday life.

Bobby Thomson

I'd get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little 'wood shots' down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn't count the number of long outs!

Lorrie Fair

That doll looks more like a black man than me.

Vernon Law

Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.

Branch Rickey

Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day.

Gregory Nunn

All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.

Gregory Nunn

Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.

I think college administrators should encourage students to urinate on walls and bushes, because then when students from another college come sniffing around, they'll know this is someone else's territory.

Tom Rose

Once he adjusts to the college game, he's going to be a very good player. He's already very strong.

Brian Jeroloman

This is their College World Series. That's why you see that celebration.

Katie Quinn

This kind of event is a way of not being invasive about teaching about the Bible. A lot of times, humor is more effective for reaching out to college students.

Stefni Lotief

It's a challenge, but this team doesn't back down from challenges. It's a great college atmosphere. It's a tough place to play, but that's part of what we teach early in the season. The reason we went to Fullerton was to put ourselves in that kind of situation.

Charles Hamilton Houston

The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided.

S. Walker

Our ultimate goal is to be in the final game of the Women's College World Series. It comes down to us competing and practicing every day with that mentality.

James Keller

A psychologist once asked a group of college students to jot down, in thirty seconds, the initials of the people they disliked. Some of the students taking the test could think of only one person. Others listed as many as fourteen. The interesting fact that came out of this bit of research was this: Those who disliked the largest number were themselves the most widely disliked. When we find ourselves continually disliking others, we ought to bring ourselves up short and ask ourselves the question: "What is wrong with me."

Tyler Hamilton

For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Jose Fernandez

We didn't make shots, but at the same time, at the end of the game you have to get some stops on the other end.

Nikki Fennern

We didn't look past them today. Our game is to come out and dominate, and we did that.

Mannie DeCastro

We didn't know what to do. Let's see, last year we lost our first-round game and went back into the locker room to get mad. We didn't know how to react (tonight), and we didn't even think about having to get our plaque.

Henry Thomas

We didn't have to in-bound the ball, but we did and got a turnover. Those three's late in the game really hurt us.

Mike Phelan

We are going to be in every game because of our pitching.

Roberto Luongo

We had some breakdowns. It was a tough game to be a part of.

Jeff Neubauer

We had several opportunities to take over and find a way to get back in the game and it just didn't happen.

Jim Nazos

We went through the whole game and competed. At this point in time Glenbrook South is a really good team and we're trying to get to that level.

Tubby Smith

When a team shoots 72 percent, you're not really playing much defensively.

Douglas Conant

Learning to celebrate success is a key component of learning how to win in the market.

Dontrelle Willis

Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.

Mark Martin

I've turned over a new leaf. On TV, Kenny Wallace said I was a pessimist after Charlotte, so I got mad. Now I am so excited about coming back that I just can't stand it. I wish we were starting tomorrow and I'm going to win! That's the new me.

Satchel Paige

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.

Laura Wilkinson

I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.

Jimmy Fallon

Jeb Bush gave a speech yesterday. He had a pretty rough time. He accidentally said that ISIS has 200,000 men instead of 20,000, and then he mispronounced the name of the terrorist group Boko Haram. So if history has taught us anything, Jeb is well on his way to winning the White House.

Katarina Witt

I can't say, 'It doesn't matter if you win or lose.' It's not true. You go in to win.

Bobby Bowden

As good as we were, we didn’t win a National Championship until 1993, mainly because we kept losing to Miami on missed kicks. I used to get mad because nobody else would play Miami. Notre Dame would play them, then drop them. Florida dropped them. Penn State dropped them. We would play Miami and lose by one point on a missed field goal, and it would knock us out of the National Championship. I didn’t want to play them, either, but I had to play them. That’s why I said, When I die, They’ll say, ‘At least he played Miami.