Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Lapointe

The overtime calls hurt the game. It's a big game, a big rivalry. the refs should let us play. I guess this is the new NHL. To lose a game on a cheap penalty is not the way to play hockey.

Ben Elliot

With offices in 64 cities around the world, it is sometimes a challenge to ensure that I've got my finger on the pulse with every one, everywhere. Staying in touch means early rising for calls with China and Japan, and late calls with the U.S.

Ray Lewis

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.

Lesley Sillaman

That would cost precious seconds because those calls would then be routed to Dane County because we are the only ones that have a dispatch center that can dispatch fire and ambulance service throughout the county.

Mike Tice

That would be a perfect scenario, where he works with that offensive staff through the whole week and works with Steve to formulate how the game will be called. Maybe Steve calls the game in, with the help of Jerry. But anything that can lighten the load of what I've taken on will be certainly fun.

Mike Tate

We have volunteers coming in a couple nights a week already to be making phone calls and talking to voters.

Roger Stone

Big brother listening in on your phone calls - I got a problem with that.

Pat Conroy

Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.

Michelle Ryan

We were getting five, six phone calls an hour going, 'Oh my God, you're closing?'

Bryan Price

We're really pleased. He's been very vocal to our staff, that he's here to serve them. He puts the lion's share of his focus on defensive play. He's a real pro. Pitchers sometimes shake to the wrong pitch. The sign of a real good catcher is that he runs out there and doesn't let the pitcher make that mistake. He's shown a propensity to do that. I'm really impressed.

Joe Girardi

I think I made most of my strides as a catcher working under him. He is the one guy I really felt I had to have.

Patrick Collins

Whether you're the dog catcher or the governor, you're elected for something to do work for the citizens of the district. And the day that you want to work for yourself or your family is the day you ought to go in the private sector.

Nick Miller

My team is the Red Sox. At center field there?s Coco Crisp, at right field is Manny Ramirez, at third is Mike Lowell, and at catcher there?s J.M.

Randy Johnson

I think it's important that the catcher realize that even if you think something is going well and it really isn't but you're convinced it is, that he still try to get you through the game when things aren't going well.

Jim Tracy

It didn't make any sense to push it. A catcher goes through a lot of wear and tear. He needs to be 100 percent.

Larry Rothschild

He's become a good catcher for us. He takes a lot of pride in it, and he's improved in every phase.

Clint Hurdle

He is as good as any catcher I played with or had on my team. He has top-shelf skills defensively.

Jeff Francis

He makes me feel more comfortable on the mound than any other catcher ever has. For a guy who hasn't been in the majors very long, he's very knowledgeable. There was a game late last year when I was struggling. He told me in the dugout, 'Just forget about the mechanics, just go out there and compete.' Now, I'm a guy who's always thinking about mechanics, but that rang true for me that day. He knows how to handle pitchers.

Randy Noland

We've got some hitters to replace, no question.

Pedro Astacio

I was trying to throw strikes. That's what happened, I didn't throw strikes. I have to come back to the next hitter and throw strikes.

Matt Holliday

When it's one game, especially at this time of year when hitters are still trying to feel their way through it a little bit, it's tough. As a hitter, you're not quite locked in yet.

Todd Steverson

I don't think it takes much more than two weeks for a hitter to start getting into the groove.

Brian Sabean

He's a leadoff hitter with a lot of dimensions.

Laura Williams

What I like about this team is that they never give up. We are not big at the net and we need another hitter to step up, but if we stay tough and remain focused, then we'll be competitive.

Ned Yost

He didn't have any trouble getting the first two hitters out. We're talking about a third of an inning that killed us.

Dave Duncan

He knows how to put a hitter away.

Erik Anderson

He is the strongest hitter in this program, and he has been for the last three years.

Steve Stirling

He's a real steady presence, on and off the ice. He has two championship rings and that's impressive.

Bon Bean

We're going all the way. It's a done deal. Put 'Gladiators' on the rings and set up the parade.

Mike Scioscia

He called him out, and that's what's disappointing. When he rings him up with a fist, he's out.

Douglas Hamilton

That's how we think the jovian rings are formed,

Alan Faneca

They got the rings and we went home.

David M. Shoup

To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.

Joss Whedon

Let freedom ring, unless it's on vibrate.

Mickey Spillane

I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.

Rocky Marciano

In the ring, I never really knew fear.

Al Barlick

There are umpires, and there are those who hold the title.

Al Barlick

Anyone who votes for McGowan is 100 percent right. He was a great umpire. He belongs in the Hall of Fame.

Chris Christie

I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed.

Calamity Jane

Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.

Bill Janklow

What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.

Carl Yastrzemski

Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.

Brendan Behan

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

Barbra Streisand

The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.

Anton Chekhov

A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.