Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Stairs

I think it's gotten past the point of frustration for us. When we make a mistake, it seems to beat us. Tonight it was an infield hit. I thought it was a good ballgame and I thought we played well, but we lost.

I. Stone

I thought she was solid for them. She really kept them in the ballgame and made some big saves.

Robert Manley

I think we just kind of got complacent a bit, but we tried to get a lot of kids in the ballgame and get them some playing time. The scoring in the fourth quarter really didn't mean that much. We just wanted to see some more kids out there and let them play.

Yvette Girouard

I think we were here ready to play and if we could have gotten a break or two here or there, the outcome could have been different. We had chances to win the ballgame and we'll have more chances down the road.

E. O. Wilson

I think what got us back in the ballgame was our press. We made them turn the ball over and it helped us get back in it.

Bobby Bowden

Our quarterbacks had performed so well the week previous to this game in practice. Then you go in that ballgame and you look like a freshman, you know? So there's no doubt about it, now we've got to get them playing to their ability. ... And, of course, we'll try to blend our running game with it more.

Jack McKeon

If you have any chance to win a ballgame you can't let him beat you.

Willie Mays

I remember that last season I played. I went home after a ballgame one day, lay down on my bed, and tears came to my eyes. How can you explain that? You cry because you love her. I cried, I guess, because I loved baseball and I knew I had to leave it.

Bud Foster

I'm just really pleased with the way our kids have played so far. Really, since the first ballgame with N.C. State, we're consistently getting better. As a defense, I really like the way we're approaching things right now.

Mike Archer

Knowing what I know now, I'd still come, ... My kids were here. I wanted to be close to them.

James Blake

Knowing that I was that close to a semi or final, it makes me realize that the goal going into these Slams isn't just getting to the second week. Maybe I can get in there and win one.

Duncan Fletcher

Key has had a shoulder operation and Shah has a knee injury which didn't look too serious at first but a closer look has shown it is a far more serious.

Niels From

I wouldn't position for sharp movements -- so close to the New Year investors won't want to take massive positions. My traders say that liquidity flowing is half of a normal market.

Ron Nelson

I wouldn't be surprised if you saw him close a couple of games. We wouldn't want to throw him more than an inning, though.

Michael Schroeder

I wouldn't be buying. When we were getting yields close to 4.50, I thought they were pretty attractive.

Richard Barnes

Jackson was the worst. That should have closed it. That should have thrown the whole thing out.

Matt Harris

I would say it's very closely being looked at. Growers want to know, sheds want to know: Are they going to continue dumping duties or are they finally going to drop them?

Mike McKee

I would say they're better than everyone else in the league. But the teams in the league are close enough that if someone is shooting it they can give them a run.

Jason Taylor

We're on the right track, heading in the right direction. Unfortunately, right now, we're out of track. We just have to wait now and tee it up next year.

Gene Carswell

I thought we accomplished a lot over the weekend. We're making progress as a team and we know what we have to work on heading into the season.

Jimmy Johnson

I think we're getting some momentum back and heading in the right direction.

Don Thompson

I think we are heading toward a military dictatorship.

Maureen Allyn

I think we are heading into the worst of it. Investors think there we're heading towards a recovery in the next six months and I hope that they are right, but I just don't see the valuations for a huge rally going forward.

John Yates

He did whatever we needed him to do this year. He's really versatile. I think that had something to do with it. But when we were heading down the stretch in our duals and (Nick) Garber was banged up, Dustin did whatever we needed. One night we'd need him at 125, one night we'd need him at 135. He just did what we wanted him to do. I think that might have hurt his seed a little bit. His seed wasn't high, but we liked where he was in the bracket. He showed there that it didn't matter.

Deion Sanders

I like what I see. I think the league is heading in the proper direction.

Ciaran Hinds

The joy of just being involved in something, of being part of a big process, just as a human being, it's nice to be part of people who are in the same enterprise, heading for the same goal, rather than, 'Oh this is all about me and my role. The story's about me.'

Edmund Phelps

The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.

Paul Franklin

Keep your heads up, boys. This is your job. Don't let these (suicide bombers) intimidate you. We're here for the right reasons.

Paul Pierce

We've got to keep our heads up. We're going to turn this around sooner or later.

Charles Stross

I don't do villains often enough. There are two approaches: give them sympathetic, reasonable motivations for doing the most unspeakable things, or get inside heads that are interestingly broken.

William Cowper

Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.

Rashad Mitchell

It helped a ton. We never put our heads down and thought because we were down that we were going to lose. We just kept pushing and pushing.

Michael Lehmann

I really like getting inside the heads of female characters. I think I can do that well, and I enjoy it.

Jill Soloway

I really like writing television, and I like the collaborative writers room feeling. It's ten people, and you're together every day laughing your heads off.

Charles Richardson

Their heads were down when we were making big shots and big plays. We had them on their heels and we didn't let up.

Paul Pierce

The main thing is we kept our heads up, didn't get down. We said (the streak is) going to end, we just have to stay together, regardless of the injuries.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

Sue Adams

Kim hits a 3, and all of a sudden everyone just started playing.

Sean McCurdy

He runs the team well and hits the open jump shot." ()

John Gibbons

He (Rios) wasn't benched (yesterday), he wasn't going to play (yesterday), ... Reed (Johnson) got three hits the night before and that's why he's in right.

Rob Kurz

He's got so much toughness at the end of the game. He's always willing the take the big shot, and most of the time he hits them.

George Jones

Hits I Missed - - and One I Didn't

Dusty Baker

He's going to hit. You don't usually stop hitting, and if you do, then somebody's in trouble, because a lot of hits are coming.

Curt Fredrickson

I was disappointed in our hitting. When you only have three hits in nine innings you are not going to win too many games.

Rick Anderson

I thought some of their hits just made it through the infield.

Steve Hook

I think that took a lot out of them. But they hung tough.

Larry Walker

I was mad at the pitch before being called a strike, I was mad I swung at that, and then he hung me one, ... So, madness, madness, happiness, all in the matter of a minute. Stupid.

John Gibbons

He was in trouble but he hung in there.

Bob Wilson

He never just hung out. He was always tinkering. He loved living life.

Samuel Johnson

Hunger is never delicate.

Sandra Cisneros

My idea of a meal, if I was hungry, was to open a bag of potato chips.

Greg Robinson

Pitt was 1-4 -- and one time was ranked No. 23. They hung in there and now, all of sudden, they won two in a row.

Daniela Hantuchova

In the second set I hung in there and waited for my chances. I wanted to be more aggressive.

Josh Beckett

I know I was (a factor). I hung out with him just about every day.

Bill Parcells

I was kind of thinking back to Seattle last year, ... We kind of talked about that. We're just fortunate, really.

Joe Edgens

Kelley is going to be right up to the last minute before it's done.

Dave Kaplan

(Jocelyn) bounced back from a rough outing last time. Very nicely done. She's going to get another start, and we're going to keep working with her.

Will Grace

JLo-so karen hows married life?Karen-well it only lasted 20 minutesJLo-Oh is that short?

Bobbie Davis

I think I said to the players last year that they had one day to celebrate. And then they had to start concentrating and thinking about this year.

Jack Parker

He couldn't make a pass or shoot a puck. If this wasn't his senior year, if he was a junior, we probably wouldn't have played him this weekend. I didn't want to miss what could have been, at any moment, his last game.

Jim Snyder

He did a ton of wrestling this off-season. He?s always done a little, but this year, he has done much more and I think it is because of the success he had last year.

Ray Allen

He didn't play the last time we were down here, so he was the new X-factor thrown into the mix and I'm sure they weren't prepared for that.

Chris Widger

He just tried to wipe the last two starts out, and he went out there and tried to start over.

Davis Love

Jack's got a loss and a tie. We'd like to get him a win.

Joe Johnson

I thought we were on the verge, but a loss is a loss.

Paula Carico

What do you do in a situation like this? I'm at a loss for words.

Becca McArdle

We've experienced a loss and so we now know what that's like.

Derrick Landrus

To come back after the tough loss in the first game, we needed that.

Joan Anderson

Why am I more cautious as I age instead of the other way around? I wonder if it's all tied in to failure. I tend to forget my gains and remember only the losses. The failures have piled up, wreaking havoc with my confidence until, as an adult, I've become afraid to take chances.

Dontrelle Willis

I don't even know what WHIP means, ... They were so similar, I have no idea. Maybe because I had more losses than him. That's the only thing I can see off the top of my head.

Joan Bonvicini

This was not our day; it was actually a very embarrassing loss for us.

Richard P. Feynman

It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life. The estimates range from roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in 100,000. The higher figures come from the working engineers, and the very low figures from management.

Andy Schulz

I thought you saw the momentum swing once we got the lead. That was a big factor.

Takenori Kanzaki

I think we have the momentum to get a majority, and I want to keep up this momentum right to the end.

Nick Saban

I think that was really probably the turning point of the game, that we could recapture the momentum and come right back and make a big play and score and keep them three scores behind,

Robert M. Pirsig

Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum

Yuri Milner

There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.

Sam Altman

So always keep momentum, it's this prime directive for managing a startup.

Sam Altman

One thing that often disrupts momentum and really shouldn't is competitors.

Dee Brown

I just threw it up and prayed for it to go in. It was just big momentum for us before halftime.

Kobe Bryant

I just wanted to come out and provide some energy, and my shot started falling. It turned into a lot of momentum for us. The third quarter has been our nemesis all year.

Daniel Woodrell

I think there are some folks who don't particularly like what I have to say, but on the whole, the reaction has been very positive.

Paul Nicholls

I think it's a really positive idea and I'm sure I shall be having runners in the first stage at Haydock.

Bob Poole

I think it's going to be positive for that end of town. I think it's going to be the right fit.

John Davidson

I think we will have a positive year.

Aly Michalka

I think that, as an actor, you have to break out eventually, and if you do it properly, it can be something that's positive.

P. Herbert

I think to come out of here, you have to have a positive attitude. I've had remained discipline-free for two years to get this job.

Larry Foote

I don't know what I'm going to say to the students. But I'm sure I'll tell them to always stay positive and make the right decisions.

Leigh Steinberg

I don't know what happened, but I know Ricky didn't test positive for anything. Someone made a mistake.

Frank Robinson

He has not tested positive for anything yet,

Richard M. Nixon

It is sad that it was necessary that Santa Barbara should be the example that had to bring it to the attention of the American people. What is involved is the use of our resources of the sea and of the land in a more effective way and with more concern for preserving the beauty and the natural resources that are so important to any kind of society that we want for the future. The Santa Barbara incident has frankly touched the conscience of the American people.

Rebecca Hall

No family is sane, is it?

Robert Toombs

They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories.

Thomas Campbell

Our bugles sang truce - for the night-cloud had lowered, / And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky.

Clint Hurdle

In San Francisco, they can whoop and holler and hooray for Barry. But here, we want to get him out and win a ballgame.

Jerry Nelson

I not only worked with him, I sang a song with him.

Jacque Fresco

If all things keep changing, how can you become sane?

Mark Twain

I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.

Muddy Waters

The thing about San Francisco is that it has this kind of magical quality.

Prince Royce

I think when you translate songs, you lose the real essence and the meaning.

Robert Fitzgerald

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

Timothy Simons

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.

Antonio Munoz Molina

Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish.

Charles Fletcher

He could've won by 10 lengths if he wanted to.

Greg Davis

Having won 19 games, to think that they've won 34 is just unbelievable.

Tom Ferguson

I think (the Fringe) is wonderful because . . . this is not 'Annie Get Your Gun,'

Mary Campbell

We feel it is a wonderful program, and they do wonderful things.

Jack Nicklaus

When he won his match, I told him, 'We'll, you've doubled your allotment for the week,'

Curtis White

I think we should have won by more (against Muncie Central), but we've been off (from competition) for a bit, and we're kind of rusty.

Jim Rash

I think what's wonderful is that 'Community' has always had its voice, has always had it's vision, and that started from the very beginning.

Catherine Jones

I was wondering that myself. I don't know.

Douglas Rice

I was wondering if we were going to sink. It was very, very wobbly and very, very dark.