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 Lewis

It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw.

Michael Lewis

Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it.

Michael Lewis

The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.

Michael Lewis

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

Michael Lewis

Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an inadequate tool for learning what you needed to know to evaluate baseball players and baseball games. Think about it. One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks. The difference between a good hitter and an average hitter is simply not visible-it is a matter of record

Michael Lewis

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.

Matt Long

I wasnt athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.

Matt Diaz

I've been sent down to the minor leagues six or seven times in my career. You've just got to have that stability. It's huge. It's comforting. And it's reassuring. To be part of something in this world that's constantly changing like baseball, it's awesome to have your hope anchored in something that's so stable.

Don Pooley

I've played well every week, but there's this one guy that's been beating me every week.

Dusty Baker

Duke was masterful. That's what beat us. It looked like Duke was fading some, we had some action, but we couldn't get that big hit.

Brad Bevis

Dustin relies more on endurance than he does his kick. He'll beat you early in a race. He'll make you try and stay with him.

Dave Powell

Each game was a grueling game. Whatever you hit to them they seemed to be able to dig. They were pretty good, the kids were excited to beat Newton.

Adrian Moss

Earlier in the year, that's how they beat us, being more physical than we were. That was an emphasis in practice this week, that we weren't going to be pushed around; that we could be just as physical as they were. It worked.

Carol Peschel

Earlier in the season Patrick Henry beat us. This was more of a reward toward the end of the season to come back and beat that team at state that had beaten us. It put us one more notch higher.

J. M. Roberts

Especially for importance. When you can go on the road and beat Arvada West in their backyard, it's a big win.

Rick Carlisle

You can't do that and beat a good team like that.

Julie Briody

We already wanted to beat BYU for our seniors, but this loss just makes us even more frustrated. Now we're even more determined to make sure we beat BYU.

Bobby Bowden

I want both of 'em practicing with a No. 1 mentality.

Joe Faraldo

This is a reasonable solution. We'll both lose some things through arbitration, but that's what a negotiation is.

John Hawe

That game was very well played on both sides.

Len Bone

That game jumps out at you because they're both top teams and they both expect to be playing on Saturday.

H. Hart

Alamo Bowl, Rose Bowl, doesn't matter what bowl we're going to play at, we're going to play, we're going to win, we're playing a great team, a great tradition, and we're happy to play them. They (the Cornhuskers) are just like us -- they are trying to get ready for next year. And this game is going to decide that. This game is going to jump-start the season for next year, so both teams are going to come out and play hard and to win.

Will Sheridan

Allan set a screen for me and (the defenders) both went for him. I would have done the same thing.

Richard Mitchell

A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. Themeditations are not clear to us until the mouth utters its words. If what the mouthutters is unclear or foolish or mendacious, it must be that the meditations are thesame. But the line runs both ways. The words of the mouth will become themeditations of the heart, and the habit of loose talk loosens the fastenings of ourunderstanding.

Jennifer Lopez

A little of both is not bad, Every girl does come on girls, don't lie!

Shane Phelps

You're supposed to go before a judge with both sides walking onto a level playing field. This is a complete corruption of the way the process in a Texas courtroom is supposed to take place.

I think college administrators should encourage students to urinate on walls and bushes, because then when students from another college come sniffing around, they'll know this is someone else's territory.

Tom Rose

Once he adjusts to the college game, he's going to be a very good player. He's already very strong.

Charles Hamilton Houston

The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided.

Elizabeth Warren

Going to college and finding a good job no longer guarantee economic safety.

Charles B. Rangel

I went to college and law school with the help of the GI Bill. That experience moved me so much, I dedicated the rest of my life to serving this great country and helping others succeed.

Phil Edwards

We aren't just a slew of deals; we are geared specifically towards college students' tastes. We are tuned into what college students want but don't necessarily need.

Camille Luckenbaugh

When employers are looking at job candidate, work experience is one of the things they look for. Employers told us that three out of five of their new college hires in 2004 had internship experience.

Jason Taylor

We saw him in college down here, and he's been doing a great job in the league,

Kim Phillips

We sat at that meet talking about what he would have to do to go to college and swim.

Bobby Vinton

I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath they feed a hunger for justice ... you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living.

Donovan McNabb

Know why I smile so much out there? It's because I'm having so much fun.

Dontrelle Willis

I'm just a kid having fun.

Donovan Bailey

I do a lot of media work, I've been investing and I'm involved with real estate. It's totally different from what I had been doing but I find it challenging and fun. To be honest, I really don't miss the track. I pretty well accomplished what I set out to do and it was time to move on.

Donnie Yen

I love working with older actors because number one, I can learn so much from them because they have so much experience. And it's fun to hear their stories from their era, some of the jokes.

Don Henley

I remember a time when things were a lot more fun around here, when good was good and evil was evil, before things got fuzzy.

Dweezil Zappa

I'm game for anything fun.

Dwayne Johnson

I like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.

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.

Steve Case

And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned the hard lesson about bringing a product to market in a consumer world where it's very expensive to build a brand and get distribution and so forth.

Victoria Azarenka

Seeing Messi play is like watching a video game.

Richard Bach

That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm again and then some.

Stephanie McMahon

But in a game, you have a pocket forming, your vision is better and - at least for me - I just get a better feel for what I'm doing.

Uwe Boll

House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.

Uwe Boll

My favourite game is Postal because it is so politically incorrect.

Tucker Max

One big lesson I learned from movie [making] was I don't do creative projects that I headline unless I have all the control. I can't deal with having to live with other people's screw ups, and that's just sort of the way the movie business works. The people with the money are in charge. Until I'm in charge, I don't want to play that game.

Suzanne Collins

Let the Hunger Games Begin!

Nick Zito

Sometimes running a rabbit works, sometimes it backfires. People have been using rabbits for hundreds of years. The rabbit has to be a good horse because they might not necessarily be able to do the job.

Carroll O'Connor

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

Jody Bass

It was a huge win for us. We got on a good run in the third quarter.

Lynn Meger

These seniors were great leaders. They were all good students and great people.

Marshal Cohen

Is it a challenge, but the good news for them is that it has been a sleepier brand, so it's not as if they are trying to maintain a property at its peak.

Craig Krenzel

I showed up at the team meeting (Saturday) and nobody told me to get out, so it's good news,

Caroll Spinney

I see no reason to quit. I can't imagine walking away from being Big Bird. I mean, that's an awfully good job that there's not too many of them. So I just want to keep doing it till I can't do it anymore.

Matt Lee

I should be happy but right now it doesn't feel so great. It's a good accomplishment but I know it could have better.

J. B. Smoove

I should be European, man. I'm long and lean. I'd look good in a trench coat.

Gal Luft

There is a lot we can learn from Brazil. They are doing great things,

Butch Harmon

The reason I stand before you today the man I am is because of my brother. A lot has been written about what a great teacher Dick was. He was my teacher. He was more than a brother. He was more than a friend. He was a mentor.

Judy Gold

There is nothing - nothing - like writing a great joke and having that joke kill onstage.

Stacey Bendet

Theory did a great work pant, and everyone was doing denim. But no one was making a trouser sexy, or the focus of an outfit... So, that's what I set out to do.

Domhnall Gleeson

There is something wonderful about turning up every day and knowing that not just the character but the whole movie kind of rests on your shoulders. And there's great satisfaction when you think it's going well and then real terror when you think it's not.

Mo Charlo

We had a great year. We won the regular-season championship, we won the tournament and we won 27 games. You can't take that away. We accomplished a lot.

Herb Sendek

We had a great understanding of what we were trying to accomplish. But we do understand we have a long way to go.

Amy Stewart

We had a great turn out, we had perfect weather, and all the kids ran great today,

Jim Koch

We had a great tournament. The new national rankings should put us about seventh or eighth.

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Aaron Nida

Lee has been working hard this year. Hopefully he can improve and get some places.

Tommy Aldridge

Lee doesn't really have a go-to player now. They might have a hard time matching up. They'll probably have to spread their scoring around.

Deirdre O'Kane

Many's the audition I waltzed into unprepared and wondered why I didn't get it. I learned the hard way.

Erik Hoolahan

Scotty's a heck of a player. He works hard. He is the stereotypical Sewickley hockey player. He does what I ask. His legs never stop. He never takes a shift off. Every shift is going to be as hard as the last one. That's what I need from every one of these guys.

Wayne Newton

Several months ago, he went through some real hard times, ... He was depressed, angry, he wouldn't get out of bed.

Chris Alliott

Sentiment is likely to be hit hard ... Investors were disappointed by the warning in October, as it was one of the first operators to lower expectations. This second hit to expectations is only likely to raise more questions.

Gil Brandt

So hard to tell when you're looking at a player. You just don't know the competition.

Clint Barmes

So it didn't really surprise me a lot, ... that he's thrown that hard off the mound.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Morgan Wootten

To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.

Joe Morgan

I still have very close ties to Houston and the Astros because that was my first team.

Joe Namath

I've figured out that life in general is a team effort; it's a team game.

Joe Namath

I wanna kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggling. What we know is we can improve. Chad Pennington, our quarterback, missed the first part of the season, and we struggled. We're looking to next season. We're looking to make a noise now, and I wanna kiss you!

John Green

I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team.

Mike Richards

Hopefully someone on their team addresses it, because, uh, I'm not saying I'm going to do it, but something might happen to him if he continues to be that cocky.

Landon Donovan

I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.

Lionel Messi

It's not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter Milan, because they have the intention of trying to stop us rather than playing a game that is more attractive for the spectators to enjoy.