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.

Lucian Freud

Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen.

Kaz Matsui

I feel my role right now is to get on base, ... That's all I'm really focusing on.

Shannon Francis

We'll try to win them both. We'll try to improve our rebounding and focus this week in practice.

Tim Roewe

We have a lot of good people here. We focus on hiring and retaining good quality people.

Sean Kline

(We had) just a lack of focus from the beginning. That will kill you in any game.

Brett Hoselton

It does raise some concerns. Do you get to a point where management has to focus on these issues?

Mark Silverstein

I think if they maintain their focus and practice regularly they have a good shot at going to the finals.

Rocky Bernard

I think his being sick has actually made us focus up a lot more,

Larry Krystkowiak

I think Jordan can be a great spark off the bench. This will give us a little different dynamic. Sharp leads our team in rebounds per minutes (played). And that's got to be a focus for us this weekend.

Cameron Bennerman

I think maybe some games in the past, we lost our focus and let some teams back in. Miami, they kinda forced their way back in, you know. We didn't really get rattled or nervous or anything like that. They just did some good things. Any good team, they're not going to stay down for long. But the thing is, we pulled together and we still won the game.

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.

Jimmy Young

We didn't make shots. We can stay in games and play really hard, but if you don't make shots, what can you do?

Frank Soria

We went through a lot of great games last year, but really, I can't remember as much tension and pressure as this game (had) for us. This was right up there with the victories we've had.

Dan Johnson

We want as many games as possible. We also want as many rounds as possible.

Christy Nall

We were there in body, but we were not there in mind. Some games you show up and some games you don't and that was one where we didn't show up.

Randy Osnes

We go all out for our seniors with a celebration between the games.

Johnny Johnson

We have about 10 more regular season games before the tournament, so this allows us to get some rest and get some more practices in.

Larry Baer

We have 39 games to play and we're only six games out of first place.

Scott Skiles

We have 31 games left and are outside looking in so every game is critical. Late in the game when we have the lead, those are games we have to get.

Dave Peterson

It would be great to have water from Tiber reservoir,

Reuben Droughns

It would be great to get that tradition back and get it going again,

Robert Gibbons

It would be great if we had the HOT to Massaponax,

Paul Farmer

It would be great if people would acknowledge that the state of Haiti was because of the resources we took away.

Jim Adkins

It would be great if it could stay in Pasadena. Part of the proceeds from the sign will go to LIPS, that's Ladies Into Purchasing Stock.

Fifi Camara

It would be great if I could play for New York. Whatever happens at this point, I'm not going to regret anything.

Willie Roaf

It would be great for me to be a part of Larry Johnson rushing for 2,000 yards, at this time in my career. That's something I never imagined being a part of, and that would be exciting.

Aurelio Rodriguez

It wouldn't be a shock if Portugal won because is a great team,

Richard McMillan

It would have been great to have Stephen here, ... It would have put Pittsburgh on the map. He's the one it was fashioned for.

Morris Chestnut

I remember when we were in rehearsals and we were going through it, because we rehearsed before we went to Toronto, and it's more of the same. She and I had to deal with a lot of stuff in this movie and we really have to take ourselves there. It actually started in rehearsals, and just revisiting that piece of it all. Just the way Monica is and what she says and the way she looks at me, it really affects me throughout rehearsals and throughout the scenes.

Sue Murphy

We played lousy. I think they were just not up for the game.

Mark Turgeon

We played like we've been here 20 years in a row.

Jim Adams

We played like we practiced all week, with no sense of urgency,

Flip Saunders

We played like a well-oiled machine. And I think there's a sense that if it comes down to it, you can turn it back on.

Alison Ojeda

We played in those tournaments to prepare us for the spring, and I think we will be well prepared when the season begins.

Marcus Williams

We played in the Big East. (The crowd) wasn't a factor.

Vanessa Taylor

We played horrible. I don't know how many turnovers we had, but we just played horrible.

Jill Markowitz

We put it all on the table, and they just played a little better than us that day.

Keith Cooper

We played hard. That's who were are. That's what we do every night. We had our chances.

Nick Swisher

It's been like that all spring. It's just that balls decided to hang up there. It's hard to catch it when you can't see it. But that's how it's going to be in Oakland in the afternoon anyway.

Henry David Thoreau

As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.

Henry David Thoreau

As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up.

Henry David Thoreau

It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.

Henry David Thoreau

Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.

Henry David Thoreau

The most interesting thing which I heard of, in this township of Hull, was an unfailing spring, whose locality was pointed out tome on the side of a distant hill, as I was panting along the shore, though I did not visit it. Perhaps, if I should go through Rome, it would be some spring on the Capitoline Hill I should remember the longest.

Henry David Thoreau

Tis now the twenty-third of march, And this warm sun takes out the starch Of winter's pinafore - Methinks The Very pasture gladly drinks A health to spring, and while it sips It faintly smacks a myriad lips.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into the air with the impetuousness of the eagle, diverting ourselves by watching the childish behavior of the little men or awling miserably around on the earth below us.

Gretel Ehrlich

To trace the history of a river or a raindrop is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. In both, we constantly seek and stumble upon divinity, which like feeding the lake, and the spring becoming a waterfall, feeds, spills, falls, and feeds itself all over again.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

I have a second-degree black belt in Okinawan kobudo weapons training.

Gina Carano

I am always training because I love it.

Amelia Earhart

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

George Bernard Shaw

If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

Galway Kinnell

The first step... shall be to lose the way.

Franz Kafka

You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.

Franz Kafka

The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road.

Franz Kafka

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

Elvis Costello

I'm goin' to take a little trip, down paradise's endless shores. They say that travel broadens the mind, till you can't get your head out of doors.

Jawaharlal Nehru

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.

Harrison Ford

I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

Jerome K. Jerome

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.