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.

Mark Hatton

The first two minutes of the third quarter were crucial. We needed to come out on fire, and it didn't happen.

John McDonnell

The first three meets were kind of lonesome. Nobody wanted to stand up and be counted. They were all running and jumping in quicksand, like zombies out there. No fire whatsoever. There are signs now that if we stay healthy, we'll be a pretty good team.

Kim Miller

The fire jumped the interstate and actually ignited the median also. The smoke was just horrible and the visibility was zero.

Pat Mitchell

The fire itself was minor. But there was a lot of smoke.

Marshall Hamilton

The fire is out, it's obviously good news. They're all safe, they're all secure, they're all accounted for and we'll be escorting them out of the mine sometime tonight.

Bill Richardson

The fire is now contained, ... There are no major fires at this time.

Malcolm Midgley

The fire has been put out now (around 5pm).

Brent Roose

The firefighters said it was the best-smelling fire they'd every smelled.

Mark Blythe

The fire doubled back on them. They tried to retreat on foot, but were overtaken.

Butch Harmon

The thing I like is he's open-minded. He works hard to get better at the things he's not good at. Other than putting there's nothing impressive about his game, but he does nothing badly.

Mick Jagger

The thing about the NFL is they run a good show. Occasionally they make a mistake but they have been quick to rectify it.

James Bay

The thing about 'Hold Back The River' that I like is that it's a good starting place, and it was the perfect first single.

Mark Tauscher

The thing I've noticed is that he's just even-keeled, ... To be a good offensive lineman in this league, you have to be that way. His personality is low key, but he's very confident.

Randy Edsall

I've never been in this situation before, ... But hopefully the kids that get the opportunity to get in and play will do a good job.

Pokey Reese

I've never done anything like that before. The game's probably going to be pretty good after all the stuff they did in there. It's going to be so real.

Mike Rumbolz

I've made a living from the industry since I was 14 years old. It's been very good to me.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I've met with the president several times in the past. We've worked together, and we have a good working relationship, ... ... We would have appreciated it if he had done his fundraising after Nov. 8.

Lee Freedman

I've always suspected he had good staying potential.

Jason Witten

Seeing some of these guys is pretty special. They've done a lot for us, the young players.

Jeff Samardzija

We've got a lot of things going into the offense, so you've got to be on your toes every day. Every time we install new stuff you've got to be ready to go. It takes a lot of smart guys, guys who are in tune to the system.

Chris Kelsay

(We've) got a lot of players that can do a lot of things. We send guys from all over the field. It's tough for offenses.

Ike Diogu

We've got a lot of injuries and the young guys are using this time to get better. We're not just going through the motions.

Brian Elliott

We've got a lot of hard-working guys. We've got guys who have, for the first time, spent their winters working hard.

Dave Urick

We've got a lot of guys to keep stats.

Chris McDonnell

We've got a lot of guys that are inexperienced in this sport. We're going to have to put them in race situations to truly find our where we're at.

Patrick Sparks

We've got a lot of guys playing well at the same time now.

Nick Fazekas

We've got a lot of guys on this team who can play. I've never thought it was all about just me.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Bobby Lamb

We signed 23 last year, and this year we signed 12. This year we were very selective because we were looking at taking one at every position, basically.

Nikola Tesla

The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Mardy Fish

If Culpepper plays like he did last year, then it's an OK trade. If he plays like the year before, then it's a steal.

Dave Kaplan

(Jocelyn) bounced back from a rough outing last time. Very nicely done. She's going to get another start, and we're going to keep working with her.

Giles Morgan

We've been waiting for payment for the last seven months, seven months outstanding.

Matt Osborne

We're probably play a little more up-tempo than last game.

Burt Reynolds

Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.

Casey Neistat

I washed dishes so I could make movies. it was never a way for me to make money.

Herman Melville

All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque.

Henry David Thoreau

It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would commonly buy them off from their present pursuit.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

Hugh Martin

If a man's religion does not affect his use of money, that man's religion is vain.

Gertrude Stein

When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth ...

Gertrude Stein

More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money ...

Gertrude Stein

When you earn it and spend it you do know the difference between three dollars and a million dollars, but when you say it and vote it, it all sounds the same.

Bobby Collins

Is that all? That seemed like a 25-turnover night to me.

Andy Goldsworthy

Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.

Todd Rundgren

It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard way around the house... and the cover shows the bunny caught in the act.

John Milton

A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night.

John the Apostle

The night cometh when no man can work.

Margaret Mitchell

You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you.

Michael Patrick Jann

Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.

Lisa Loeb

The only way to get vegetables at a diner late night is to order the omelette. A feta cheese and broccoli omelette.

Paulo Coelho

..there is nothing worse than the feeling that no one cares whether we exist or not, that no one is interested in what we have to say about life, and that the world can continue turning without our awkward presence. I began to imagine how many millions of people were, at that moment, feeling utterly useless and wretched—however rich, charming, and delightful they might be—because they were alone that night, as they were yesterday, and as they might well be tomorrow.

Raquel Welch

People do stop me and talk to me about something they saw that they loved. It is very satisfying, but I have my own opinions.

James Nesbitt

People don't watch TV only to relate to stuff. They also watch to find out about a world they can't relate to.

Phyllis Pedrizzetti

People don't want to work that hard. You can't just take over. You have to start your own business. It's not like starting a 7-Eleven.

Cindy Mannes

People don't want to tell you they have them.

Gary Shaw

People don't want to come in. They feel they're unsafe in the shopping area.

Lucy Ivins

People don't want to be managed, they want to be led.

Josh Homme

People don't want their actors acting like musicians.

CeeLo Green

People have always questioned, Was I crazy? And I'm like, 'No, I'm not crazy. I'm just totally committed.'

Asif Kapadia

People have always been recording what's going on around them in one form or another.

Karisma Kapoor

I want to abolish tags like 'comeback' and 'retirement' that are used to define every married female actor. What is the big deal? In Hollywood, every top actor takes a break, has children, and gets back to work.

Ellen DeGeneres

Above all, I strive to be the best I can - to be better than I was yesterday and better tomorrow.

Carl Jung

Today's worries are yesterday's fears and tomorrow's stories.