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.

Rafael Palmeiro

I love baseball, and the door remains open.

Tobin Bell

All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I can do. That's what I do. I'm an actor. And all the rest of it is like baseball. You hit the ball. Sometimes it goes in the hole. Sometimes it goes to the player.

Sinclair Lewis

A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.

Norman Cousins

At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You don't think I'd be doing anything as foolish as this if I were ninety-five, do you?"

Mike Trout

I always dreamed of making it in baseball, but life has moved pretty quickly for me.

Mike Trout

I think people keep baseballs in their cars, just to be prepared in case they see me. It's cool to get recognized in public; it's an incredible feeling.

Neil Gaiman

Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap. "It means you give up your mortal existence to become a meme: something that lives forever in people's minds, like the tune of a nursery rhyme. It means that everyone gets to re-create you in their own minds. You barely have your own identity any more. Instead, you're a thousand aspects of what people need you to be. And everyone wants something different from you. Nothing is fixed, nothing is stable.

John Thorn

Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail.

Tony Domenech

So you no longer have an absentee landlord - easy solution.

Steven Soderbergh

When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.

Matt Watson

It's an easy way to make a quick getaway from the school environment.

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.

Demi Lovato

As a kid I'd play with homemade recipes, like putting pineapple on my face to exfoliate my skin and doing facial steams with lavender or peppermint oils. I just loved doing stuff like that. It's what motivated me to launch my skin care line.

Amanda Palmer

I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.

Anna Quindlen

Well, we tell our kids things like 'don't gossip' and then an hour later they hear us on the phone. Stuff like that.

Anna Quindlen

Poor kids are much more likely to become sick than their richer counterparts, but much less likely to have health insurance. Talk about a double whammy.

Angelo Dundee

This kid deserves anything good that happens to him. He's such a good guy. He's just the nicest human being you want to meet.

Angelique Kidjo

Music for me has been my breath, my backbone since I was a little kid. Anything that comes to my life, hard time or good time, I always find comfort in music.

Claes Oldenburg

I always knew America was all about guns. You go to the movies as a kid, everybody's got a gun.

Cindy Sheehan

I raised four kids in six years.

Chynna Phillips

I always tell my kids make your vocation your vacation.