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.

Tim Chambers

We'll shock the world. And when we do it, it'll be the greatest baseball story ever written.

Felipe Alou

What is their proof? ... Are they testing players, too? How do you explain that? Or have they stopped testing now? We just saw him hit five in 30 at-bats. So what's going on now? I hope that he's judged by the real baseball people when he's finished.

Alex Trebek

You should never wear a baseball cap when working in close quarters in the attic: You never see that beam above you!

Albert Pujols

I learned to play (baseball) on the streets in the Dominican Republic when I was 8 yrs old.

Albert Pujols

People ask me if I believe how quickly my career has taken off. I just tell them that Jesus Christ is my strength. God has blessed me and I will continue to do my best for him. That is more important than anything I could ever do in baseball.

Albert Pujols

Baseball is simply my platform to elevate Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior.

Albert Pujols

I try to spend as much time as possible with God and my family. That's more important than anything I'm doing in baseball.

Albert Pujols

I play to represent God, something bigger than baseball.

Jeff Justice

If that's the only evidence you've got, it's a sad day in the justice system to prosecute people for murder on the basis of that.

Nick Vujicic

Sometimes even on an hourly basis we need to keep praying and keep our peace in God and remind ourselves on the promises of God that never fails.

Lee Tien

What's offensive to me is that you have the government selling Registered Traveler on the basis that we will get you through security lines faster, when they created the inconvenience on dubious grounds in the first place.

Mahmud Abbas

We are ready to negotiate with the Israelis if they want on the basis of international legitimacy.

Adam Ereli

We recognize that they have need for fuel, and we think that deals to supply that fuel should move forward on the basis of the joint initiative, on the basis of steps that India will take but has not yet taken.

Pamela Liebman

To make a decision on your home on a purely financial basis makes no sense. Will your kids have to change schools? Will your rental have enough room for all your things?

Richard Kolko

Under the law, no private person may possess classified documents that were illegally provided to them. There is no legal basis under which a third party could retain them as part of an estate. The documents remain the property of the U.S. government.

John Landgraf

We get more e-mails and mail on a daily basis about 'Nip/Tuck' than any of our other series.

Edward McKelvey

We had expected an upward revision in the second-quarter G.D.P. estimate on the basis of other recently released data, ... but trade kind of goes in the opposite direction.

Phil Garner

Sometimes your offense picks up your pitching, and I do believe that our pitching will pick up our offense more often than it will let us down. Tonight we needed the offense and we had the offense. A win is a win.

Art Hogan

(Techs) had such a terrific run for the past two weeks that I believe some people are taking this opportunity to take some money off the table and invest it in the 'old economy,'

David Gibb

Terri is declining rapidly. We believe she has, at this point, passed where physically she would be able to recover, ... Face the Nation.

Bob Skubal

Some people still don't believe she's for real. If they have an issue to deal with they should get over the fact that girls should have no limits set on them. They should never hold themselves back.

LaVerne Knox

Sometimes people in this area, they just believe that one of us, if not both of us, should be in the Colonial Center every year.

Sathya Baba

Seeing is believing, I will believe in God only if I see Him; but are all things seen or heard or touched or tasted, as real as they seem?

Viktor Yushchenko

Russia is our strategic partner and we believe that in the course of this visit we will lay the groundwork for a new stage in the development of Ukrainian-Russian relations,

Russell Smith

Sadly, I don't really believe in the idea of timeless fashion. It's an oxymoron. If 'classic fashion' really never changed, we'd all still be wearing togas.

Phil Klay

Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance.

The tired and thirsty prospector threw himself down at the edge of the watering hole and started to drink. But then he looked around and saw skulls and bones everywhere. "Uh-oh," he thought. "This watering hole is reserved for skeletons.

Dean Karnazes

Unlike running on a road or concrete, natural surfaces are more forgiving and offer a more varied terrain, ultimately resulting in less repetitive micro-trauma to bones and joints than running on hard pavement does.

Dwight Davis

This is just one step closer to reality. Now they've taken it a step further by specifying the services they are going to offer. It's nice that it sort of puts meat on the bones for .NET, but it's still at the vaporware stage. The bulk of the suite is still far from beta (test version).

Eric Turner

I had one of my good friends kicked out of college for domestic violence. He had his college career ruined.

Bob Stanley

I felt a part of it in some ways, not as a teammate, but as a former player who spent his whole career with the Red Sox. I always root for them and I hope they do well.

Masahiko Harada

I finally called it quits and it's good that I felt very comfortable with my last jumps. I was moved by the chants of my name. It was indeed all the fan support that kept me moving on with my career until today.

Michael Barrett

I feel for him. He's had a great career and unfortunately with the way the game has gone, let's be truthful, it hasn't helped him in any regard. I feel for him in that way, too.

James Wright

I feel like this is a career goal. I've been here four years with the seniors. It's really tough to say goodbye to them.

Bob Fredericks

I did mention to Kevin before the game that his state tournament career started with Desert knocking us out in the quarters. He didn't want it to end that way.

Allan Houston

I did everything I possibly could to get back and finish my career the way I would have liked to. My injuries just wouldn't let me do it.

Jon Bernthal

I did come to L.A. to try to get on TV and get in front of a camera, so I could have a stage career in New York.

Tom Brands

I can't express how happy I am that my former coach, Dan Gable, has decided to join my staff at Iowa. He's been with me every step of the way during my career and this will be no different. There's no one in the world who's better at working with wrestlers and I'm glad he's on board.

Daryl Patton

We're a pressure team. We're going to give up some big plays at time but overall ... we gave up some big plays but the kids responded usually with something positive right after that.

Caitlyn Jenner

'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

Dean Herbort

They lost a year ago to Canyon, 27-0, and then turned right around and gave us a good scare.

Billy Donovan

They played great tonight, they really did. I was proud of how hard they played and competed. They gave me everything I could possibly ask.

Mike Gundy

They gave up 10 points. I did not know how it was going to work with all the jumping around we did. As an offensive coach, if a team did that to me, I would just run it. However, that is not their team.

Linda Jones

They gave to us, now it's time for us to give to them.

Louis Whorton

They gave Odessa all they wanted in the first round. They've had a day of rest because they played (Wednesday). That's the way it happens in the national tournament.

Keisha White

They gave me this. It's a teddy bear,

Brenda Allen

They gave me their name, which was fake.

Marilyn Monroe

When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Stevie Wonder

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

Marie Windsor

So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.

Ted Turner

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

Theodore Roosevelt

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Theodore Roosevelt

Work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing worth having comes easy.