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 Lewis

It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw.

Michael Lewis

Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it.

Michael Lewis

The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.

Michael Lewis

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

Michael Lewis

Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an inadequate tool for learning what you needed to know to evaluate baseball players and baseball games. Think about it. One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks. The difference between a good hitter and an average hitter is simply not visible-it is a matter of record

Michael Lewis

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.

Matt Long

I wasnt athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.

Matt Diaz

I've been sent down to the minor leagues six or seven times in my career. You've just got to have that stability. It's huge. It's comforting. And it's reassuring. To be part of something in this world that's constantly changing like baseball, it's awesome to have your hope anchored in something that's so stable.

Shawn Almond

We didn't play defense very well tonight. That's one thing we've relied on, one thing we've keyed on and we didn't do a good job.

Marisa Bush

We didn't play defense as well as we usually do. I thought we let No. 22 (Thompson) get too many good looks.

Scott Leggett

We didn't play as well as we should have but we won, and that's what counts. The big layoff slowed us down a little. We still played pretty good defense with just a few mistakes.

JaJuan Smith

We didn't play as good on defense as we wanted. But sometimes we were just right in their face and they made tough shots, so you've got to give them credit.

Jake Plummer

We didn't make the most out of the opportunities we had. When you play a defense like that, you can't miss opportunities.

Jamont Gordon

We didn't make their defense work. We stood around too much on the perimeter.

Bruce Cook

We didn't lose because the effort wasn't there. We just didn't execute on the offensive end; their half-court defense was tremendous.

Steven Hill

We didn't hit many shots. But we played defense the whole game.

Tim Duncan

We didn't have the edge we needed tonight. They shot 50 percent from the floor. We need to shore up our defense right now going into the final few games of the season.

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.

Abby Cohen

We expect profit growth to decelerate in the second half of 2004.

Robert Long

I would expect a strong payrolls number Friday, and for the market to have some sort of positive response to it, even if it's just very short-term.

Todd Barker

We were missing several girls (for various reasons), and all of them would've placed. I really did expect the guys to win.

Thomas Burke

It is a fact of life that the higher you go in public service and the higher your pay is the lower the expectation of privacy.

Robin Farley

We expect to hear that Harley-Davidson sales were up nicely during the quarter since we had known that January and February sales were up 10%.

Michael Strahan

I thought Seattle was a very good team, but did I expect them to be in the Super Bowl? I thought if they were going to be there they'd have to go through us.

Joe Foster

I think we will hit the $600 level sometime this year. I don't know if we will make it during the first half of the year, but I expect to see that level by year-end. The market is that strong.

Anthony Crescenzi

I think this is just a hiccup in a very strong trend that we expect to continue.

Matt Brown

I think we can go to state and do really well. A lot of people don't expect us to do anything.

Annika Sorenstam

I'm very proud of the way I played and I played four solid rounds of golf,

Scott Burzynski

I'm very happy to come up here and play four games and come away with the fifth-place trophy.

Claudia Pechstein

I'm very happy about this gold medal. I heard it was a record. I know I have four (gold) medals at home.

Bible Bible

And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and Jahazah with her suburbs, / Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs; four cities.

Soichi Noguchi

Steve, we trained for four years; you're going to spend the next four years signing autographs.

Richard Citta

They wanted to have more than four functions. They wanted to have 10. Ten rods got to be too big.

Henrik Zetterberg

It was a big win. From the start, Ozzie helped us out a lot. He had a lot of good saves, three and four in a row. We couldn't get the puck out and he saved us.

Lou Adler

Johnny Rivers is underestimated as an artist. We had four top 10 singles.

Kevin Costner

I like four-hour movies.

Barack Obama

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

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.

Ami Ayalon

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

Matt Mullenweg

I drive a Prius and drink $10k bottles of wine. The wine isnt on Instagram. The Prius is.

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.

Mark Brunell

If we don't win this one, we're done.

Satchel Paige

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

Terry Goodkind

Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to take root and grow. Eventually, a bountiful fruit of rumors burst forth, to be spread on the wind of whispers that said we hid a fabled hoard of gold. Nothing could convince the believers that it was not true. The truth does not glitter for these people like gold does.