Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Starling

Nos. 1-9 in the batting order will move the baseball. Defensively we'll be as solid as we've ever been. Matt can overpower people and keep us in the game with anyone.

Ryan Church

Sometimes you stand back and watch him during batting practice and say, 'Wow, he's only 21,'? He's got it all, everything.

Graeme Smith

Sometimes, when you're batting with an injury, it helps you to focus your mind, and I'm hoping that will be the case. The medical staff would rather I waited until the second Test, but I really want to get out there and play.

Linn Williams

Rudy's made himself into a pretty good hitter. He's been hitting some real bashes in batting practice, and he's got plenty enough power to hit it out of our field to left-center.

Gus Logie

I see partnerships being built and people batting longer.

Matt Holliday

I've been working on timing and getting my hands in the right position, just trying to get that feel back. It's hard to explain. You can do it in batting practice and you can do it in the cage, but to get in the game and to be able to settle your nerves a little bit and get in that mode when you can still get your swing off when the velocity picks up and you start facing off-speed pitches. I'm trying to find that rhythm, that timing.

David Thompson

It would only be a coup if the person who is a leader of a party leaves and becomes the leader elsewhere. I mean, what would you settle for if you are a leader of a party and you defect? No. 12 in the batting order? No. 15?

Graeme Smith

The whole team wanted to be positive and wanted to go for a win. Cricket needs positive games. It doesn't need teams batting out and drawing games. For us, as a team moving forward, we're young and we need to be positive. To set a declaration and to try to go for a win was in our minds the only way to play. The negative option never came in.

Tim Kaine

You're not going to have a 1.000 batting average, but the way you get votes is, you just push and you push. I'm not afraid to do that.

David Lereah

A new record is a bit unexpected, but so is the performance of mortgage interest rates which have been lower than forecast. When we look at recent job gains, we see all the positive factors coming together to coincide with a powerful demographic demand for housing.

Scott Berry

As far as I'm concerned, it's up for grabs. It's the same most any year. You have to be good and you have to be a little bit lucky.

Mike Malaise

As far as how it changes, it will give us a little bit of a window. It may make it easier to get some messages out without the negative prism of the DeLay campaign.

Daunte Culpepper

As far as Randy not being here, personally, he's a close friend of mine and we spent a lot of time together, so it's definitely a little bit different in that sense. But time moves on. We have a goal to be NFC champions and Super Bowl champions. We don't have time to sit and worry about who was here last year and who's not here this year.

John Johnson

As for going on the show, I would not have minded one bit to meet him face to face and look him in the eye, ... But I feel the deck is stacked on that one and the show is Dr. Phil, not Jerry Springer. The title is ?Falsely Accused,? not?Guilty as Sin.?

Charlene, Princess of Monaco

As for the French language, it's probably one of the most beautiful in the world. I speak a little bit and I can follow conversations, but I think it will take time to improve myself.

Kirk Hinrich

As a team, I think we did a pretty good job. We just have to do a little bit better.

Scott Minnig

As a team going into this game we were shooting 52 percent at the line and we still missed some foul shots that we've got to knock in. I told the guys this week we've got to shoot better than we've been shooting or else it's going to come back and get us. I think they started to see that a little bit and panicked a little bit.

Craig Ferguson

As a result of that we met a little bit of a wall.

Jia Qinglin

The Sino-US relations are facing an opportunity for further development.

James Fisher

The substantive issues facing the university must be addressed without historic rancor from any part.

Tom Glavine

The tempo on my changeup is a little off right now because I was gung-ho being out there and trying to make pitches. I needed to relax a little bit. When you're facing a team other than your own for the first time, your competitiveness gets going a little bit.

Tom Glavine

The tempo on my change-up is a little off right now because I was gung-ho being out there and trying to make pitches. I needed to relax a little bit. When you're facing a team other than your own for the first time, your competitiveness gets going a little bit.

Morris Gleitzman

I used to get stuck trying to find the first sentence of a story, then I realised that it was often because I didn't know what problem a character was facing in the story. As soon as I did, I could have the character trying to do something about it or have the problem whack him between the eyes.

Bobby Holik

The most important thing is limiting the goalie equipment. The last ten years, I was looking at the goal and there was nothing to shoot at. It was like facing a wall.

Pat Robertson

One day we're going to be staring at nuclear weapons and it won't be Katrina facing New Orleans, it's going to be a Venezuelan nuke,

Joe Johnson

Now here we are facing a 33 percent increase that I'm not comfortable with.

Dave Duncan

I've seen John pitch. He is a guy that hitters didn't really like facing so we're hoping we can see the same here.

Bill Keefer

Any game without a strikeout, I'm happy with.

John Chaney

Any game we win is an ugly win.

Ron Dayne

Any road game is going to be tough. We just have to get our mind right and be ready to play.

George Khoury

Any poultry on sale in an unregulated market and any pigeons or game are now culled.

Bill Belichick

Any players that haven't been in the playoffs need to do everything they've done before and more to try to prepare. You can't simulate a playoff game in practice. You can't simulate it anywhere.

Clint Hurdle

as good a game as you will see here

Kevin Osnes

As a team, we have to understand that the game starts inside-out.

Curt Grottenthaler

As a team, it was a real good, solid performance to start the season out. It's good to get on the positive side of things in the first game and start getting a little confidence.

Jonte Flowers

As a team, we stay loose and really take it one game at a time. We know how important each game is. We just go out there and have fun.

Frank Lautenberg

Any properties that are available, we ought to be able to get our hands on.

Ken Conboy

Of the two, Top was hands down the leader,

Tony Camillucci

Defensively, our press hurt them and we scored a lot of those points in transition off of steals. We rotated very well and got hands up on their shooters. We were mainly just concentrating on defense.

Damien Hirst

Anything you can do with your hands and feet. Great.

Andre Agassi

The thought of a Wimbledon trophy being in the hands of somebody with a lot of money is upsetting.

Havelock Ellis

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands

Mike Wallace

I've never even shaken hands with the man.

Steven Biko

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

Celso Amorim

Some speak of a deadlock in the talks. I prefer to talk of a padlock, and the key is in the hands of the EU.

Ed Smart

As hard as this has been for our family, the response has been overwhelming.

Clive Barnes

As hard as the nails on a crucifix.

Hilton Armstrong

As a senior, I understand that every team comes at us harder because we're No. 1.

Domanick Davis

As a running back, it's hard trying to be like someone else. You have to roll with the skills you have.

Joel Kinnaman

As actors, we're like these vagabond artists: we have to be invited to perform, so if you don't have a choice of options, it's very hard to define yourself.

Reggie Lee

As actors, it's so hard to get your hopes up about anything.

David Lambert

As an actor, I'm always so excited about those things that I get to stretch my legs and really get to do something that's hard to do.

Dick Jauron

A very tough guy, hard working guy, loves the game, studies the game. He's very, very into football. It's important to him.

Chris Whitaker

Away from rugby if your head's not right then it makes it pretty hard to concentrate on rugby.

Paul Kemp

That's what modeling does, it makes something real before it happens.

John Sebastian

You're seeing it go down to more moderate homes.

Ashwin Sanghi

Everyone talks about moderation. How about some moderation in moderation?

Mike Dargani

We wanted to do modern Japanese. We wanted to tweak things, to play with ingredients.

Alain Vigneault

We were ready, but nothing transpired. For us, we're just in reaction mode a lot of the time.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

False modesty is better than none.

Sean Astin

My diet is always terrible, unfortunately. I don't know moderation.

Mason Cooley

A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction.

Robert Mintz

He was a model of contrition on the stand.

Alexander Payne

Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.

Nate Silver

You get steely nerves playing poker.

Joe Louis

I don't like money very much, but it calms my nerves.

Martha Graham

You don't pick dance. Dance picks you.

Richard Avedon

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

Janet Frank

When (Life Flight) picks up a patient, they have nothing to do with money. When they're called, they pick the person up.

June Daugherty

These AAU teams are amazing. They practice all year. They're well coached. They play a lot of games.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

The more you practice, the better. But in any case, practice more than you play.

Ayn Rand

Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice.

Brian Tracy

Growth and fulfillment come from abandoning old practices and embracing new ones.

Jan Karon

Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.

Carl von Clausewitz

Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

Calvin Coolidge

The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive peoples.

Alain de Botton

Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.

Alain de Botton

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

Ray Willis

We just had to get a rhythm. They settled themselves down.

Laura Evans

I went through three different titles before I settled with this one,

Howard Rheingold

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

Jennifer Miller

At first it was very nerve-wracking but we settled down and it was such a blast.

Ned Yost

We want to let Rickie get settled in,

Jose Maria

The start of the work is (Saturday), but they are practically working now,

Elena Dementieva

I usually start to play well when I'm in trouble.

Carnell Williams

Sometimes you need this. It's tough, but now we can stop talking about 13-0 and start talking about being this 0-1 Tiger team and what we're going to do about it.

DeShawn Stevenson

Sometimes you've got to switch up the starting lineup to get a spark, just to get a win.

Nick Jones

Tech blitzes so much, the only way you can get them to back down is start to gash them,

Tom Shepard

Right now walls should start going up the first week of November,

Robin Sutton

Pretty soon, we had to start turning down donations.

Joe Pinyan

Quarterback is wide open. We don't know who's going to start Friday.

Tom Craft

It was an electrifying start but I didn't have any follow-up.

Suzy Bogguss

Ive been playing swing chords for a long time.

Ray LaHood

Portal Bridge is based on a design from the 1840s and was already obsolete shortly after it was completed in 1910. It's a swing bridge that needs to be opened several times a week so barges can pass up and down the river. It takes about a half an hour. The problem is it fails to lock back into place on a regular basis.

Ruta Sepetys

I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.

Tiger Woods

I started changing my swing in late 1999.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Yeah, well, I guess I feel like all of us misfits need to hang together. At least that way we don't swing along. (Tabitha)

Pat Metheny

I have to admit that more and more lately, the whole idea of jazz as an idiom is one that I've completely rejected. I just don't see it as an idiomatic thing any more...To me, if jazz is anything, it's a process, and maybe a verb, but it's not a thing. It's a form that demands that you bring to it things athat are valuable to you, that are personal to you. That, for me, is a pretty serious distinction that doesn't have anything to do with blues, or swing, or any of these other things that tend to be listed as essentials in order for music to be jazz with a capital J.

Jay Bryson

Obviously, this quarterly swing is a one-off event.

Mike Trapasso

He's got to swing better than he's swinging, that's for sure.

Harry Connick, Jr.

I like to jump some rope and swing kettle bells to get my blood pumping. It makes my voice sound better, and it clears my head.

Garry South

The timing was not accidental. There's more to come.

Bill Swain

The timing of this weather is a little unfortunate.

Stuart Sternberg

The timing is not as important as getting the right people.

Michael Parkinson

Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing.

Chauncey Billups

I wish the timing was a little different.

Erin Morgenstern

Timing is a sensitive thing.

Warren Buffett

We continue to make more money when snoring than when active.

Joyce Meyer

The right timing is not always our timing.

Edward Boyden

A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.

Cilla Black

Really, I'm trying to retire. It's just nobody will let me!

Ian Mckellen

On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.

Ariel Rechtshaid

I've always had this impression that notoriety came when you're trying to get notoriety.

Joss Whedon

I usually write things in my head before I ever write them down. When I write it out, usually I've already figured out what it is I'm trying to do.

Jeremy Moore

I've always been trying to be a writer. This is the first thing I've ever finished.

David Dunn

The most important thing that we're trying to do,

Domo Genesis

Sometimes, when I'm trying to get my thoughts out, and I'm thinking too fast, I stutter.

Marsha Thomsen

Right now, we are all just trying to adjust.

Craig Venter

I spent 10 years trying to find one gene.

Milton Glaser

His work had a kind of velocity in the way things were made,

Buck Showalter

His velocity was down, and it wasn't worth the risk.

Rahul Gandhi

A Dalit needs Jupiter's escape velocity to achieve success.