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.

David Wright

You look at it, you've got to take one game at a time and play good baseball. Yes, we started hot, but there have been a ton of teams that start hot, then they go into a drought after that. So we have to stay focused and continue doing what we're doing.

Mark Ellis

You look at Frank's numbers and he's amazing. He's already a presence around here. You couldn't be a baseball fan in the '90s and not follow Frank Thomas. He's as good as there was in the game.

John Gibbons

First of all, he's been in the organization a long time. Second, he's had a lot of these guys, ... He's a good baseball man, and he's paid his dues. And he's from the South.

Randy Johnson

There's really not one person in this clubhouse we could have been without,

Tom Slater

There was a little extra bounce in their step. With the hard work they put in ever single day, it makes them feel better to know that they're being rewarded for hard their hard work. The most important thing in baseball is confidence. Obviously when you win, it gives you a little more.

Jim Rew

There's something about playing the game of baseball that lights up a youngster's eyes but for children facing mental and physical challenges, that opportunity can often be a difficult first test. The Miracle League gives these children the opportunity to get out in the sunshine and enjoy the game of baseball in its purest form.

Scott Wallsten

There's no real justification for public financing of stadiums. They don't generate economic benefits. They don't help revitalize neighborhoods. The economic research on this is pretty solid. The only studies that show positive effects are the ones commissioned by baseball and people who want a stadium built.

Jeff Bagwell

There's no other situation this would be OK. A normal guy, that wasn't going to play. It fit for our situation at the time. It's not something I would advocate. But Roger Clemens is a gift from the baseball gods. Anything he does is a gift. ... Craig (Biggio) and I have never had a ring. Our best opportunity to get one was to have Roger around. He tends to his obligations, his kids. And it's not like the man comes in here and pitches five innings and gives up six every day.

Bobby Burton

You're talking about 35 million households who watched the Rose Bowl. That was putting the Longhorns front and center in a lot of future recruits.

Chellie Pingree

I love to come home and work on one of my other jobs. Just to remember that the floors gotta be mopped, and that everything isn't centered around what you fought about in Washington last week.

Todd Pratt

The way I look at it, it was a great game.

William Channing

The wise only possess ideas, the great part of mankind are possessed by them.

Henry David Thoreau

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them

Keith Tkachuk

These are young kids. This is the foundation. You need great goaltending, and that's what we've had over the years with Mike Richter.

Keith Tkachuk

These are young kids. This is the foundation, ... You need great goaltending, and that's what we've had over the years with Mike Richter.

Al Bloom

The rings are great sellers because they keep the man hard and they stimulate the woman.

P. Herbert

There would be no great ones if there were no little ones

Tom Rasmussen

This is a win-win solution for these three great organizations and our precious open space,

JamesOn Curry

This is a proving ground for us. It's a great opportunity for our team to get better and start getting ready for next season.

Ron Artest

He played good. He played real smart tonight. He's probably one of the better players on the team right now.

Colby Armstrong

He played awesome. You see his reflexes, on little tips in front, gloving them. He's a big-time goalie.

Retief Goosen

He ran away with it. He played unbelievable.

Al Harrington

He played well. He got all the big shots.

Seth Payne

He played very well. We tried to unsettle him and we didn't get it done.

Carroll Dawson

He played very well for us this summer,

Pete Leslie

He played very well, but we still have a lot of things to fix.

Mike Messina

He played varsity for two years. He was a pleasure to coach.

Igor Andreev

He played too well. I also had some problems with my knee. But tomorrow it's going to be a different game.

Yra Harris

Nokia is a distraction at this point and time.

Matt Kenseth

It's a lot more than it's ever been. It's probably to the point where it's too much. But I don't know what to do about it.

Jon Isca

It's going to come down to the numbers. Every point counts.

June Daugherty

It's going to be really important that she understands the scouting report on each one because she'll end up on each one at some point in the game.

Kristy Curry

We had a point to prove. We made a statement. We were tired of overtimes. We had something to say and we said it.

Jeff Gundy

When he (Alston) was not healthy, or out for a while, and we were without a true point guard, we were much more plodding. We want to be up the floor, which is what he does best.

S. Hughes

At this point we simply have run out of time.

Marcy Forman

At this point we're taking what we can get.

Jay Pandolfo

At this point, we really need the two points. That would have been a tough point to give up.

Jesse McCartney

I've been reading script after script after script,

Bella Thorne

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

Tom Perrotta

I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college.

Taryn Manning

After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.

Stephen King

Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It’s not just a question of how-to, you see; it’s also a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing.

Sonakshi Sinha

Theres really not much that people can pick on me for my work, so obviously they find other reasons to write something bad about me. I mean, people enjoy reading bad stuff about people.

Sylvia Plath

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

Rollo May

When one read's Kierkegaard's profound analyses of anxiety and despair or Nietzsche's amazingly acute insights into the dynamics of resentment and the guilt and hostility which accompany repressed emotional powers, one might pinch oneself to realize that one is reading works written in the last century and not some new contemporary psychological analysis.

Tom Robbins

Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family members or friends who lack the desire, the courage, or the opportunity to burst in on you when there's some indication that you could be sexually entwined will seldom hesitate to interject themselves between you and a page, even though the act of reading is often as intimate and intense as a full-fledged carnal embrace.