Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Bamber

Back in the Eighties, I'd buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible.

Jim Gilligan

Once we get it all done, it will be better than it's ever been. Our baseball park and our baseball team are going to get better every single day... Right up to the end of the season, the field will get better.

Jim Hendry

The Sox were the best team in baseball and they deserved to win -- I'm happy for them. But whether the Sox won the World Series or not, we won 79 games last year and that's not acceptable.

Marquis Grissom

The sooner and better they understand themselves, the better baseball player they'll be. That's the best teacher of all, experience.

Fay Vincent

The thing that makes this different from the Rose investigation is the scope. This could take (Mitchell) into all sorts of nooks and crannies. This will be a nightmare for everybody, but baseball has to get the moral high ground back.

James Adkins

The thing about baseball is, it takes one pitch to change a game. He just got the bat head out. Every pitcher in America's going to say, 'Darn it, that shouldn't have been hit.' But he hit my pitch.

Dusty Baker

The things I want to see out of him is baseball experience and work on fundamental instinctive stuff -- running the bases, hitting the cutoff man, knowing when to run. I've heard that when he gets thrown out, he stops running. When you get thrown out, you need to be more daring.

Barry Bonds

I've never cared about records anyway. So what difference does it make? Right now, I'm telling you, I don't even want to play next year. Baseball is a fun sport. But I'm not having fun. I love the game of baseball itself, but I don't like what it's turned out to be. I'm not mad at anybody. It's just that right now I am not proud to be a baseball player.

Mike Young

I've made no bones about wanting to work more on a full-time basis with cricket, I gave up my baseball career to do this because I believe in it,

Scott Harris

Another thing that went into the decision to come up here was it wasn't as hectic. And we kind of felt more comfortable in the small-town setting.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Tracy Bunge

After the Fall season, we made some decisions about some players and positions in particular in order to help stabilize our lineup early.

Karen Hughes

Decisions must be made that are very hard,

Ted Thompson

Decisions like this are never easy. They require a lot of thought and consternation, but at the end of the day I felt like we needed to go in a different direction.

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Michelle Gorman

The significance of this (preliminary) decision is sending a strong message to all countries, about the importance in basing your decisions on science.

Veerappa Moily

The talks are in the final stages and a decision will be made here itself in two days.

Rodney Lovell

A 'work around' simply means your system doesn't work.

Kelly Clarkson

Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me.

Romeo Crennel

We're 2-2 and all that means is we're .500.

Jim Schmidt

We feel like it needs to be done now. It means a lot to our part of the state.

Wendy Scattergood

There's some wiggle room there. It means Lautenschlager might be vulnerable.

Ken Hitchcock

There's no point stepping up if you're not comfortable doing it. The stepping up means you have to show the work ethic.

Roy H. Williams

There's more coaching. He says 2 yards outside the number, he means 2 yards. Not a yard and a half. That's different that what I'm used to.

William Kovacs

What this means is the suit will not go on for 20 years,

Mike Chinoy

What this means is mutual recognition. That is something neither side has been willing to do (in the past).

Michael Davis

The money has just been piling up and isn't being allocated.

Howard Rogers

The money can then be used only for road resurfacing,

Darrell Bryan

A number of us are very upset about this slogan. By having too little money you come up with poor ideas.

Ross Perot

Once you pay the bills, money is the most overrated thing in the world

Martin O'Malley

Some people see Baltimore as a hopeless place. Some have even made a lot of money on it.

Alexander Frolov

Right now, the money to play in Russia is very large. But I really wanted to play in the NHL, and especially in L.A. I really like the city. I really want to play here and try to win the Stanley Cup.

Joan Laporta

Samuel is not for sale, not even for all the money in the world.

S. Walker

Saving money turns out to be the universal application, ... That's why Wal-Mart is as big as Wal-Mart is.

Hansjoerg Strohmeyer

Quick money is lifesaving money. The system is stretched.

Bill Bullard

As a regular commissioner, it takes about 50 percent of my time, ... As chairman, it's about 90 percent of my time. It's significantly more work and more hours.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Padraig Harrington

These fairways are at least 50 percent narrower that anything you would see in the States.

Greg Anderson

We have 50 percent of the units reserved and that's very exciting.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Chris Cooney

Only 10 percent say very unfavorable after 20 years of work.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97 percent back now,

Thomas A. Edison

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Lawrence Lindsey

I would not be surprised to see 5 percent unemployment by the end of the summer. I would be surprised to see 6 percent.