Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Young

When I'm up on them, they play better, ... When I was up two set points in my pro match, they had two big serves. ... In the juniors I get a lot of balls back and make them play.

Fiona Shaw

I had a ball doing Harry Potter.

D.J. Shockley

It is always good when you can get a lot of guys to catch a lot of balls. It is hard for the defense to key in on one or two guys.

Bob Tomlinson

The umpire did the best he could, but some pitches were so far out. You can't call balls one and two feet over the batters head strikes.

Paul Byrd

You want to give your team a good start and put balls on the corners. Sometimes it works for me, sometimes I give up a lot of runs.

John Gibbons

The best work you can get is taking balls off the bat, over and over and over again.

Ken Ford

It's nice to have the bats come around. We had a bunch of hits, balls hit hard. Maybe we can get some confidence and get going again.

S. Hughes

It looked to me like we had the balls delivered where they were supposed to be, we had the right patterns called, and we didn't execute or make the catch. When the game is on the line, we talk about who can you count on when the game counts, and we didn't come up with a play to win the game or at least a play to keep the drive going.

Rod Delmonico

It was a poor outing for Craig. He didn't pitch that well at all. He gave up more hits and runs than he's given up all year. In the fourth inning, he got some balls up in the zone, and they hit it.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Danny Culler

Coming to the checkered. Watch your mirror. Watch your mirror.

John Gibbons

Coming in we knew we had a good one,

David Perkins

Now, gas prices, ... they go to $10 to the gallon, we're still coming to the races.

Dave Allison

Ten to 12 kids are coming in early to drop off their gear in the event that they need some seasoning. Then they will fly to Dallas. We can always send their stuff if they get a job in Dallas.

Tom Pardalis

Ryan and Greg are giving us great senior leadership on a young team. This team is learning and understanding how to play hard all game long. That is coming from the seniors. Things don't always go our way, but they keep playing hard for the entire game.

Shaun Ellis

Sacks, they come in bunches, ... Once they start coming then we'll get them. We just have to get more opportunities. Right now we're worried about stopping the run. Sacks, that's the last thing on our minds.

Bruce Bochy

Ryno's come off a pretty good week. He knocked in some runs. I don't want to let him get rusty after coming off a pretty good week.

Curt Schilling

I don't go out there with the mindset that he did this, now I'm going to better him. This game's too hard.

Hans Rosling

Let the dataset change your mindset

Dusty Baker

You want him to go out and pitch the way he has pitched before.

Koby Clemens

I wish I could talk to Satchel Paige and find out what he did to pitch at 50,

Mariano Rivera

I could've thrown 100 pitches today, ... It didn't matter.

Nick Ursitti

I'm a smarter pitcher now. With more pitches to rely on, I've been a lot more effective.

Brendan Donnelly

I tried to come back too fast. By trying to pitch before I was ready, I wasted a lot of time.

Buddy Bell

Walk A-Rod? And pitch to Giambi? How about that one?

Jennifer Dunn

This is not a ripple effect. This is a tsunami.

Alberto Manguel

Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that malignant booksellers attach to the backs. These evil white scabs rip off with difficulty, leaving leprous wounds and traces of slime to which adhere the dust and fluff of ages, making me wish for a special gummy hell to which the inventor of these stickers would be condemned.

Tie Domi

Early in my career when we went to golf tournaments and charity dinners I noticed businessmen and executives would give the players their cards. Well, they're giving you their cards for a reason. I said to my wife, 'All the guys get these cards and then when they get to the parking lot they rip them up or throw them away. It's really weird.' My wife .. said maybe you should just sign a picture and mail it to them. You know, 'Great playing golf with you,' or whatever. So, I did and lo and behold some of those guys I sent pictures to way back then are now CEOs at big companies.

Steven Moffat

I always rip out the last page of a book, then it doesn't have to end. I hate endings.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Do it, and I’ll rip your heart out and feed it to your friend. (Julian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I warn you now. Anything happens to my mate or my son, we will hunt you down and rip you into so many pieces they’ll never find all of you. (Vane)

Meg Cabot

I might look like a honey-eyed schoolgirl on the outside, in my skirt with its regulation four-inches-above-the-knee hem. But I'll rip those tassels off your shoes, old man. Just try Googling me.

Bill Gates

People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.

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.

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)

Huston Smith

The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies.

Louis Armstrong

A lot of the musicians asked me if when I hit my high-Cs on the records I had a clarinet take the notes. Some [thought] I had invented some kind of gadget so I could play high register. They weren't satisfied until they handed me a trumpet that they had with them and had me swing it. Then they cheered.