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.

Matt Silverman

Bringing a museum like this to Tropicana Field only helps cement Tropicana Field as the baseball capitol of the state of Florida.

Jim Bowden

Brian is one of the best defensive catchers in baseball and we're glad to be able to keep him in Washington for at least the next four years. It is the goal of any organization to sign, develop and then retain their own homegrown players, and this is what we've accomplished with Brian's contract.

J. Taylor

Brandon not only improved his baseball skills, but he worked hard in the classroom. He made many sacrifices and spent many hours getting better.

Ned Colletti

Brian goes about his position in a very methodical and thoughtful way. He also has developed a great relationship with ownership. They are so respectful of baseball operations. It's about as good a match as you can have between baseball ownership and operations, and it works. There is respect both ways.

Barry Zito

Brown was way out in front of a changeup, ... That's just the baseball gods there. ... I haven't seen their games, but I figure they hadn't gotten breaks like that.

A.J. Chilson

Brooklyn is the only place in baseball where money doesn't matter. Only the fans do.

Phil Nevin

Best hitting coach in baseball, ... He has this way of communicating and getting things through to you. We look at what we're doing like what Tiger Woods went through, revamping the swing. He took a few steps back and one step forward.

Phil Mendelson

Either Major League Baseball makes a major concession or the owners make a major concession.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Mike Burgess

People can register the day of the race, but it's like anything else. You have to stand in line. It's always best to pre-register.

Nikolai Khabibulin

Of the three games I've played so far, I thought I felt the best tonight. Obviously, I'm not close to where I want to be.

Mike Ferda

Offensively, I thought we clicked. We were able to keep things going by not committing mistakes. It was our best game so far.

Doug Luke

Offensively and defensively, this is the best we've played all year.

Allyson Fasnacht

Of course, you don't want to be the team that breaks the run, but you can't worry about that. We couldn't let that pressure get the best of us.

Keith Stokes

Of course, Winnipeg is still in the mix. Everyone is around the same number (financially), so it's just about the best situation for me. Playing time is the thing.

Bill Adams

Of course, when they had their best years, they never quite got it done. They went (to the Super Bowl) four times, but never won. They're starved up there.

S. Walker

Offshore is where the big bets are made now. From the bettors' point of view, offshore books are the best thing that could have ever happened. It's a great alternative to illegal bookmakers.

Bobby Cremins

Coaching at Kentucky is not something you want to do for 20 years. You'd probably be dead. ... It's such a pressure cooker.

Torrell Martin

Coach had told me to be more aggressive. Once I get one or two to go down sometimes they just feel like free throws.

Bobby McGee

Coach Gurley said if we could keep this team together for four years, we'd be in the regional.

Gavin Smith

Coach Groh talked about my toughness a lot. He said he saw that when he watched my game film and really liked it.

David Hill

Coach Grimmett and his experience and success here has generated a lot of interest. Give coach Grimmett a great deal of credit of that.

Kadie Riverin

Coach (Greg Williams) has been telling me that I have to be more aggressive. That was the time to do it. No one else was really stepping up, so I felt I had to.

Rod Graves

Coach Green's leadership and focus in terms of what he wants and what he feels he needs. He's defined that for us very well, and then we just go after it.

Larry Fitzgerald

Coach Goebbel expects me to be a leader of this group even though I'm just a sophomore. At 20 years old I've got a lot of playing experience from last year. I know the offense like the back of my hand so he expects me to help out these younger guys.

Chris Mohr

Coach Gibbs said...he didn't know if (Tupa) was going to go on injured reserve, or rehab, or whatever. So, he wants a veteran in here that's a good holder. And that he doesn't have to worry about as far as holding and stuff like that, field goals, end punts. So he called me, and I'm here.

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Rick Woodard

The thing I'd like for us to work on is getting better quality shots. I'd rather us get fewer shots that go in than to take more shots that don't. I'd rather have quality than quantity.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Olli Jokinen

I've been playing with Gary the last 20 games and things have been clicking. Gratton has been there a few games and it's been working really well.

David Duval

I've been playing well. I finally holed a few putts for a change. I was just trying to make more and more birdies. I'm not one to protect a score. I wanted to keep forcing the issue.

S. Walker

I've been out a few times, ... but nothing major yet.

LaVonda Wagner

I've been on her the last few weeks to execute, and she got some help from the people around her and it was great to see.

Ed Goetz

It would have been a different game if we would have hit a few more in the third. We kept the press on because we thought we could rattle them. They displayed a lot of poise.

Wendell Byrd

They are a much more seasoned team than other teams having a more senior oriented team. Hopefully we will see them a few more times.

Mark O'Connor

The music is addictive, ... When it's going well, you feel like you're hitting home runs all night.

Rob Cosby

I've been kind of slow hitting this spring but today I feel great.

Brett Lee

We tried to work on being ruthless, just hitting the top of off-stump consistently.

Phil Mishler

We just ran out of gas. We had the lead, but (Jay County) just kept hitting big shots.

Bill Smith

We just never got going. We were missing some shots and they were hitting them.

Andrea Gibson

But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back.

Albert Pujols

I know I'm good when I'm hitting the ball the other way - that's Albert Pujols.

Christy Mathewson

Anybody's best pitch is the one the batters ain't hitting that day.

Terry Coleman

We have athleticism, speed, everything. If we're hitting on all cylinders, we can go far.