Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert White

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

Wayne King

We can't keep them down forever. Even though they're struggling right now, they're going to swing the bats through the course of the season.

Kalen Pimentel

We just didn't swing the bats the way we should and we lost. We'll be out watching Hawaii tomorrow and we'll be pulling for them.

John Cohen

We came out focused and had some really good at bats out of every player today. I thought we hit it hard, which we've been doing but we found the holes today.

Doug Schreiber

Today was a big game because I told the guys we either were winning the series or settling for a tie. We swung the bats a lot better today.

Alex Rodriguez

We have to look at the positives. Randy pitched well, our pitchers are pitching well, our bats were better tonight and we just have to make plays.

Joe Caruso

Usually we're slow coming out of the gates with the bats. Today we came out swinging the bats early and that was definitely big. It seemed like we were more comfortable in the box. I think playing at home helped - we haven't played a lot of home games.

Lance Berkman

We've done a nice job at the plate. There's going to be ups and downs and you just have to try to enjoy the times we're swinging the bats well. The last three games we've done a good job competing and putting up runs.

Bruce Bochy

We haven't swung the bats well here, or even on the road, it's fair to say.

Inga Cadranel

When we were growing up, we had all these crazy, in-your-face guys around the house. For us, it was like, 'Ugh! Actors again.'

Val Kilmer

I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.'

will.i.am

When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.

Alberto Martinez

The overriding theme of these numbers is that these guys are pretty much tied, and will likely stay that way for a long time.

Brian Bell

The guys in the Twins understand that the better Weezer does, the more people will probably care about us.

Wade Henderson

We have a lot of young guys who haven't jelled yet. It's tough when you lose (last year's seniors), but you have to learn to play without them.

Mark Marquess

We have a lot of young guys and we'll see where we stand.

Lindsey Hunter

We need to have our showers, there's some guys in here who should be showering more often than they are.

Jeff Valdez

When I got into this business, the 18-34-year-old thing was hammered into me.

Bill Cowher

I went over it and over it and over it, really hammered on it. When I thought I'd mentioned it enough, I made sure I mentioned it again.

Carol Smith

We hammered the walls in the pouring rain, in the mud.

Marcus Camby

It's real tough. It's tough for players getting hammered every day, ripped in the media every day. I've been there, so I know.

Japanese Proverbs

The nail that sticks up will be hammered down.

Todd Minney

Scioto just hammered us in the second and third quarters the last time we played them.

Jeff Harris

That pitch to Wells, I left over the plate, and he hammered it.

John Simpson

This is the most important thing they are doing right now and since the public is paying the bill, it should be hammered out in public.

Sal Calabrese

I know we played them six years ago and they hammered us, 4-0.

Channing Frye

That was really deflating. We're right there and then boom, boom. At least it's us making mistakes that we can correct.

David Jones

Today, VoIP is where wireless was 10 years ago. We can't repeat the mistakes made with 9-1-1 and wireless phones again.

Mark Elston

To Lansing's credit, when you have all seniors, those mistakes don't always take place.

Patrick Lalime

Little mistakes at the end ... I'm not sure what happened.

Grant Lowther

I won't be as nervous (for the quarterfinals). When you're out there wrestling, you don't always know if you're making mistakes here or there.

Jim Provuncher

We played hard, but we had a lot of mistakes.

Anja Paerson

I was risking a lot and made a lot of mistakes because the visibility was terrible.

Al Larson

I don't think we made any mistakes. But from a public relations perspective, it wasn't properly handled.

Ron Gardenhire

He seems to be on just about everything. We're making some mistakes and he's creaming them.

Ray Giacoletti

We're having a tough time right now. We've just got to keep swinging and keep grinding.

John Gibbons

I'm just going to go with Reed. I like the way Reed's swinging it,

David Eckstein

You can't go up there swinging if (the pitcher) has just made an out or he's had a tough inning before,

Arsene Wenger

I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest.

Arsene Wenger

I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.

Arsene Wenger

One of the things I discovered in Japan was from watching sumo wrestling. At the end you can never tell who has won the fight, and who has lost, because they do not show their emotion because it could embarrass the loser. It is unbelievable. That is why I try to teach my team politeness. It is only here in England that everybody pokes their tongue out when they win.

Bill Bradley

We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.

Bill Bradley

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous

Roy Oswalt

The 20 wins is nice, but it's a whole lot better that this team is in the playoffs,

Craig Biggio

The '98 team was probably the most disappointing.

Aaron Small

The 7-0 thing is nice, but more importantly, it's a team win,

Jim Pace

That was the most disappointing thing about this game. We have a veteran team and we should know what to do in those situations.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Stay with me tonight. Let me hold you even if that's all it is. Let me keep you safe.

Mark Campbell

We haven't had any complaints. Tonight will be the first true test.

Bobby Frasor

Just watching him out there tonight was something special.

Buck Showalter

Kam made a lot of friends tonight with his teammates, getting them on and off the field. That's always good, especially after a late-night arrival.

Dusty Baker

We've got to make a decision, probably tonight or tomorrow. We can't go short-handed.

Mike Davis

I didn't want us to take any 3s tonight because of their size.

Buddy Hackett

Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, you would never see a bad show.

Antonio Villaraigosa

You all know I love L.A., but tonight I really love L.A.,

Bill Maher

The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight...

Mark Cuban

The first cities to create friction-free enterprise zones will get a lot of entrepreneurial traction.

Robbie Tobeck

He's kind of in the zone right now.

John Gibbons

He was in command. He was down in the zone all night.

Rick Renteria

He was up in the zone a little too much.

David Lange

An itinerant masseur, massaging the politically erogenous zones.

John Goodwin

Some of that is a construction zone now,

Jeb Putzier

That's where we come in. We have to get in the end zone more.

Chris Hovan

You got to zone everything out and go out and do your assignment.

Pat Metheny

I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly