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.

Michael Young

Besides that, the weather is great, the travel is a piece of cake, you can focus entirely on baseball and the facilities are first-class because games are played at Spring Training stadiums. I had a blast. Whoever thought of the AFL, it was a great idea.

Ozzie Guillen

Bobby Cox called me last night and said, 'You'll never retire from baseball; make them retire you,' ... He called me like 4 yesterday and said: 'You're too good a baseball man; people like you. Make those guys fire you. Keep taking money away from them.'

Bob Todd

Bill Davis Stadium has been ranked as one of the best college baseball stadiums in the country and I think Ohio State fans have done a great job creating an extremely positive atmosphere. I can't believe it is the 10th season.

Ichiro Suzuki

Because I love baseball. That is the No. 1 motivation. What I do is just come here to perform.

John Leonard

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

Jennifer Scott

We were driving to school one morning when he was 8 years old and I said, 'Luke, what do you want to be when you grow up?' ... He said right then he wanted to be a professional baseball player. I wanted to tell him how it was a long shot and he should probably choose something else. It was right there on my lips. I think God stopped me. Instead, I said, 'Luke, somebody has to be a major-league baseball player, so why not you?'

Mark Shapiro

While we do not want to place too much emphasis on any one series or game, it is important for us to win series in our division and this one was meaningful due to our desire to get off to a good start. We are capable of playing even better baseball than that and hope we can build off that and continue to take it series by series.

Brian Nelson

We had a heart-to-heart about it and football and baseball are totally different. We told them that the reason we're here wasn't to avenge what happened in football but to try to win a state championship.

Mark Dewalt

A one-room country school is not just about education. It builds pride in the community.

Eric Mangini

This is a team effort 100 percent. I am going to work with Terry as much as I can. He's going to work with me as much as he can so that we can get the right players for the system and build moving forward.

Luke Bodensteiner

This is a strong team, even stronger than we had four years ago. Those who were rookies in Salt Lake have developed into real performers now, and our first-timers in 2006 are poised for some very noteworthy results themselves, which we can continue to build from.

Denis Pombriant

This is the future. It makes it cheaper and easier for all kinds of companies to build apps, whether you're talking about enterprises or small businesses.

Gene Watson

This is the first time this group has played together as a unit and they did very well. It's what you always hope for and something we hope we can build on the rest of the year.

Jack Holmes

This is not a pipe dream. What's exciting about this process is you don't have to drill any wells and you don't have to build any infrastructure, and you'd be putting these plants in the heartland of America, where you really need the jobs.

Darcy Antonellis

This is not just about the film industry: whether you're talking about the pharmaceutical industry, the information technology industry or filmed entertainment, the protection of intellectual property is crucial. If we can't build businesses around ideas, and feel comfortable that we have the right to those ideas, then our entire business is threatened.

Charlie Crist

This is similar to the old scam of selling swamplands to unsuspecting Floridians. These people wanted to build a home, but instead they were swindled out of dreams and money.

Michael Gartenberg

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Tony DiTucci

We got strong play from a few individuals, but we didn't get a collective effort from the whole team. We're not going to win with individual effort. We're going to win when we play together as a team the way we're capable of playing.

Steve Alford

If you can win in Champaign, you're very capable of winning in here as well.

Jo Maso

If we called him up it's because he is capable of playing. We did not want to rest him for the first match. We've always said that if we had to choose between a regular first-team member who is at 80% of his physical potential and his replacement who is at 100%, we would take the latter.

Djibril Cisse

I have no doubt about us. I know what we are capable of. I'm really confident for these matches.

Donna Capps

The fun part of this conference season is so many (teams) are capable of making a push for it.

Jen Uhl

Not to make excuses, but the first game we had a new coach and it was a whole new thing for us. Now, things are comfortable. We know what we're capable of.

Charlie Batch

It's been a while since I've started, but I have played in this league. You still have to go out there and practice every week, you still throw your routes and you still have to prove you're capable of making the team.

Liza Kelly

It's great to have a player like Jenny on your team, but it's also hard because you do expect her to come out and have a game like this. I think there are other people that are capable of putting up those same numbers, and I think when we really start to find our game and start rolling, we'll have more than just Jenny scoring that many goals in a game.

Bobby Lamb

It's Renaldo's turn. He's shown he's capable of leading our offense, and our team has complete confidence in him and in his abilities.

Sam Cassell

We're just the same old Clippers. That's all we are. We're just the same old Clippers. We want teams to continue to take us lightly.

Timothy Ghriskey

There have been few negative pre-announcements and a number of positive ones, ... Third-quarter earnings should be strong and that should continue to support the stock market. But there will always be pullbacks and volatility. There's always the potential for people to sell the news and you may see that in the short term.

Mark Jensen

We are struggling offensively right now, but this group is determined to turn it around. Regardless of the struggles, they continue to work hard to get better. I am proud of the fact that they won't give up. It shows what they are made of.

Thomas Carr

We are strong, we are well prepared...to continue to meet the needs of Montgomery County.

Elie Wiesel

We are still here. And no matter what, we shall continue to be here to tell people so they can learn from our history.

Lewis Booth

We are going to do what we said we would do and continue to work on the cost side.

John MacPhee

We are going to continue moving forward with implementing the remediation plan,

Julian Luna

We are going to continue at the level that we started. If anything, the testing will probably increase once we determine if the pre-race or post-race method is better.

Angela Kohler

We have felt for a long time that the stock is worth $30 or better and continue to think that.

Robert Clarke

Our desire is to be involved in a series as we view as the pinnacle and the premier open-wheel racing series, ... and see that as maybe a priority over the need to have competition.

C. S. Lewis

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.

Anouk Aimee

It's so much better to desire than to have.

Anouk Aimee

It's so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.

Ansel Adams

If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.

Anne Boleyn

And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.

Anne Beatts

I'm often accused of 'going too far,' but I recognize that behind my desire to shock is an even stronger desire to evade the 'feminine' stereotype: 'You say women are afraid of mice? I'll show you! I'll eat the mouse!

Anne Bronte

Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish; and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they deserve it too.

Richard Engel

The Syrians are better suited to sort out their internal divisions than anyone else.

Chris Terry

This was a big division win for us. Brandy pitched very well.

Billy Blanks

I had full rides to Nebraska, West Virginia, Marshall, Youngstown State and Pitt, ... But I struggled with my grades and couldn't play Division I.

Mark Shields

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Bill Fleischli

It's too expensive to have your due process or day in court.

Joe Davis

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Rick Morris

There were some manufacturing problems with the stickers. The mirror hangers are made with heavy gauge plastic unlike previous ones that would fall off due to the heat.

Eddie Izzard

Theres a huge hole in the whole Flood drama, because anything that could float or swim got away scot-free, and it was the idea to wipe out everything, He didnt say, I will kill everything, except the floating ones and the swimming ones, who will get out due to a loophole.

John Findlay

It means that the aircrew will report to work precisely when they are due to report,

Richard Suttmeier

It's a question of how long you've owned it. If you've owned it from 1997 levels, maybe you own from $30 a share post splits. And if that's the case, you want to take a look at how much money did I have invested in Microsoft two, three, or four years ago, how much money do I have invested in Microsoft now, and maybe pare it back a little due to the uncertainty.

Joe Stanhope

It's a really happy day, there's no question about that. It's all due to the involvement of a lot of people.

Robert Long

There's a lot of optimism about the earnings due in the next few weeks, and right now that's concentrated in technology, with people feeling upbeat about tech earnings and spending, which is why you've been seeing the Nasdaq perform a little better than the others this last week.

John Cairns

People in my view have been putting too much emphasis on the slowdown of the economy,

Butch Harmon

The thing I like is he's open-minded. He works hard to get better at the things he's not good at. Other than putting there's nothing impressive about his game, but he does nothing badly.

Mick Jagger

The thing about the NFL is they run a good show. Occasionally they make a mistake but they have been quick to rectify it.

James Bay

The thing about 'Hold Back The River' that I like is that it's a good starting place, and it was the perfect first single.

Mark Tauscher

The thing I've noticed is that he's just even-keeled, ... To be a good offensive lineman in this league, you have to be that way. His personality is low key, but he's very confident.

Randy Edsall

I've never been in this situation before, ... But hopefully the kids that get the opportunity to get in and play will do a good job.

Pokey Reese

I've never done anything like that before. The game's probably going to be pretty good after all the stuff they did in there. It's going to be so real.

Mike Rumbolz

I've made a living from the industry since I was 14 years old. It's been very good to me.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I've met with the president several times in the past. We've worked together, and we have a good working relationship, ... ... We would have appreciated it if he had done his fundraising after Nov. 8.

Lee Freedman

I've always suspected he had good staying potential.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Baruch Spinoza

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Diana Wynne Jones

Hope is the forward-looking part of memory.

Mark Harmsen

We are obviously working with him, and we hope to try to get this resolved as quickly as possible.

Frank Johnson

We are still unified in moving forward, taking whatever steps we can take in the hope we'll come up with a solution that's better than losing the house.

Kary Hadden

We'd hope so, a little of that intimidating factor. We go down to Reno and wrestle in tournaments and see a lot of different people from throughout the country, and they know of Keegan.

Chad Bolser

We didn't make him jump 42 inches. But, I hope he learned how to do things the right way.

Sean McCormack

We have every hope that it will be declassified, every intention to declassify at this time," ()

Paul Ricoeur

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.

Park Dietz

One of the problems with studies that examine the effects of violent imagery is that they typically use mentally healthy psychology students. If you want to do a meaningful study, show movies like Body Double and Copycat to a group of sexual psychopaths the day before you release them.

Oprah Winfrey

I learned that I could control my life. You are the master of your fate. . . you are the captain of your soul. I took control and went to my space. . . My space. . . the universal energy. . . I tapped into that space of divine flow, where all beings, all things are connected. That space is real. You cannot have a meaningful life without having spiritual self-reflection. Know who you are and why you are here. When you tap into that space, divine flow, that universal energy, you become untouchable in what you are called to do.

Scott Kim

My goal as a puzzle designer is to create a meaningful experience for the player, not just 'I solved it,'

Laura Schlessinger

You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each of our lives becomes meaningful.

Julianne Moore

I think all of us struggle with how to keep relationship alive. And yet it can't be static either. It's never going to be how it was when you first met because you're not in that place anymore; you're not necessarily the same people. So, that's the struggle - you're trying to make the relationship move forward with the rest of your life and make it special and meaningful. And I think it's incredibly challenging.

Josh Billings

Laughter is the fireworks of the soul.

Joan Cusack

Maybe I'm more drawn to those kind of parts because they are meaningful to me. I mean, more parent-y ones, I find them interesting to do.

Bill Nighy

I used to think that prizes were damaging and divisive, until I got one. And now they seem sort of meaningful and real.

D.J. Shockley

I don't know who said that, but he's playing pretty well to me.

Niklas Kronwall

I couldn't have been more ready when I returned. But the only way to get back to playing shape is to play.

Gary Barnett

I can just go out and play and relax, ... I'm not thinking; I'm playing more and reacting more.

Dave Nosworthy

He will be missed; he has been playing very well for us.

Jason Cain

Today just showed what we can do when everybody's playing well.

Garry Houston

Playing with Sergio was theatre and I suppose I thrived on it.

Trent Yawney

Playing with poise under pressure is something you can't teach.

Jeremy Roenick

Playing with Cammalleri and Frolov, I have to work a little harder, ... They're speedy.

David Carr

Playing the Titans is always tough, whether you're favored or you're not favored,

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Drew Brees

When you wake up, think about winning the day. Don't worry about a week or a month from now -- just think about one day at a time.

Drew Barrymore

I'm okay with the idea that slow and steady wins the race.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

Douglas Conant

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

Dorothy Hamill

I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.

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.

Don Nelson

If we're gonna win, we have to play up to and beyond our potential.

Dwayne Johnson

What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.