Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill King

He wanted to be a ballplayer but said 'I would have been a Double-A or Triple-A ballplayer at best,'

Dusty Baker

He's a ballplayer. These are things a ballplayer does -- they run the bases well, they hit well, they throw, they throw to the right base, they steal a base. I think we're very fortunate to get such a talent at such a low price.

Ron Santo

He's a Cub, there's no doubt about it. Not only is he a great ballplayer and a Hall of Famer, but he's a Chicago Cub.

Will Sheridan

He never promises anything he doesn't deliver. We know we have to earn what we get. At the same time, he was a ballplayer himself, so he understands where we're coming from.

Elijah Dukes

I learned that you can be a good ballplayer but if the spot is occupied and everybody comes out and does their job, you can't take it unless stuff happens. You just have to keep working hard and hopefully something happens and I get my chance and I make the best of it again.

Todd Steverson

The hardest part for any ballplayer is to get into a routine, stick with it and believe this routine is going to get him to the next level. He just has not played that much baseball in his career. Once we get a grasp on his game, hopefully, sooner than later, we'll see where he is.

Joe Posnanski

When I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, I believed - completely, wholeheartedly, without reservation or pause - that the Cleveland Indians were named to honor a Native American ballplayer named Louis Sockalexis, who played for Cleveland in the late 19th Century.

Rajon Rondo

Coach Smith has given me tough love, which I believe has made me a stronger ballplayer and a better person.

Alan Trammel

This is exactly what the Detroit Tigers need. He's what I call a good ballplayer who does a little bit of everything.

Mike Black

John has been one of our leaders this year. He stays steady from a 38 to a 40 all year. Our number two is Drew Waldrop, who is averaging a 39 or 40. He is just joining us back from the baseball team.

Alan Trammel

Guerrero is not human. He is an incredible baseball player. There is now way you can pitch to him.

Brad Arnsberg

The only thing that bothered him a little bit is when they had him skip, just to put all the weight on it. That didn't go as well as he was hoping, but everything else was right up to par. ... As he said, 'When am I ever going to skip on the baseball field?'

Jim Tracy

He's been terrific. He looks to me like a very good baseball player and a very good number two hitter.

Mike Conrad

He's a tough kid. He's a competitor. You know, the baseball gods just weren't with us tonight.

David Montgomery

His record of success is outstanding and I believe that Pat is the right person to lead our baseball operations. I'm very excited that he has decided to join us, and I look forward to working with him.

Yoshihiko Miyauchi

His presence was invaluable, not just for the team, but for baseball itself.

Luis Alicea

His velocity was still good. I thought it was a dominating performance. He showed a good fastball with good angles; his breaking ball was devastating, and I thought he showed a real good change-up.

Brian Jordan

Hockey is hot again. February is off to a good start, too. And we haven't even really got into baseball, softball and golf sales yet.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.

Alex Guerrero

I was like, 'I can't believed I missed that.' It was a one-in-a-million that I'd miss that. That goal could have taken us to OT. I wanted to win this one. I'm so bummed out right now. This one was tougher than our last lost to them. We had our chances, and that's what kills me. We had more chances.

Hal Miller

I was lucky to get away from that with only a few small injuries, ... The next day I looked at the car and just couldn't believe I had survived it.

Richard Byyny

Knowing these individuals as I do, I believe them,

Chad Vollmecke

Knoxville brought a tough team to town last night and we wrestled the best we could under the circumstances. There were some very high points for us and we made some big strides in a few weight classes. A few of our boys still need to learn better position and mat sense, but that comes with time. Time is running short for this year, but I believe we are seeing things at this stage of the season that were not here last year.

Robert Browning

Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up ...

Mike Jarvis

Kids believe practice makes perfect. It doesn't. It makes permanent.

Tom Shaheen

I wouldn't say it's scientifically an absolute, but I believe it personally from my experience in the lottery.

Gisele Bundchen

I wouldn't say I'm going to quit modeling and become an actress, especially because I can't do that because I have contracts, but I definitely enjoyed it. I wouldn't call myself an actress, but I at the same time, if there is an opportunity... I believe in taking chances and living your life.

Sara Harrison

If our governments are so compromised that they will not tell us the truth, then we must step forward to grasp it.

Chris Burke

I'm just starting to grasp it, because these are the types of homers you always see replayed. And now one of them is mine.

M. Scott Peck

If we seek to be loved - if we expect to be loved - this cannot be accomplished; we will be dependent and grasping not genuinely loving.

Carl Sagan

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

John Beck

We got a grasp of what it takes to play a top 10 team. We had our moments, but we didn't make enough plays to get it done today.

Fisher DeBerry

We had it in our grasp and we let it slip away.

John M. Smith

I don't think he's even grasped his potential yet.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I feel it now...there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world. I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it.

Sullivan Sykes

People always say that hard work pays off. I never grasped that until now. I worked the hardest I've ever worked -- period.

Kyle Williams

I don't know who's No. 2. There are 10 to 15 teams as talented as each other, and it's all about who's going to work the hardest to get there.

Yogi Berra

The hardest thing is to get started, but the really hardest thing is to finish.

Tim Purpura

The hardest thing for him, he has such a ritual, the way he prepares for a game. It got him out of sync.

Neil Diamond

All the sparkly shirts and the stage trappings - that's just the performer, the public me, ... Songwriting is the hardest and most personal thing I do. When I'm writing, I'll go into the studio at six in the morning and stay until after dark, including weekends.

Aaron Rowand

It was one last hurrah with my friends. The hardest part about being traded is you feel like you're leaving your family.

Pete Wentz

The hardest part of watching someone watching me is making it appear that I'm not watching.

Milt Heflin

They make this look awfully easy. This is probably some of hardest work we've done in the human space program. I marvel at it.

Caitlyn Jenner

It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Monica Crowley

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

Meredith Ostrom

John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'

Ted Ligety

I think it's kind of stupid to make him do it if he isn't going to be in the next run.

Ken Warwick

When they go to school the next day, it's become the show to watch, and if they haven't seen it, they've got a problem.

Elliott Sadler

I actually am pretty pumped up for the next nine races.

Edward Cooke

He was poking the screen with it, over and over until he ripped it. But he didn't say anything about it, and then he actually incorporated it into his explanation of the next slide.

Dylan Carr

He was good, but I'll be back next year.

Charlie Lewis

He was really on us that next morning, ... We didn't start that day.

Dave Blaney

I don't know where I'm going to be at next year. That's all I know,

David Cash

I wouldn't say it's pressure. We played our way into this position we can play our way out of it.

Stephen Jackson

He was aggressive. He didn't let the referees get in his head, he just played well. He's getting a feel for the game.

Jerry Slocum

He just played tremendously tonight. I'm proud of the way they all battled back tonight.

Shaquille O'Neal

I've always been a leader. Every team I've played on, I've led my way.

Jeff Beeman

He's a really smooth player. I wish he played for me.

Jerry Sloan

I thought we played with a lot more purpose tonight than we did the other night.

Luke Poore

I thought we played well. They just wore us down.

Susie Gardner

I thought Whitney played very well, especially considering who she was playing against.

Jim Ferraro

I think you?re going to see us (in the tournament). We have a lot of young girls, but they have played well together.

Carly Rae Jepsen

What I like is a life that is full of surprises and [that has] no routine.

Paloma Faith

I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.

Ovid

Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.

Don Franklin

We spotted them their runs. We were not sharp, not making the routine plays.

Mike Wilson

The routine has pretty much stayed the same.

Barbara Turner

We kind of have a routine going and it's actually worked out pretty well for us.

Kelvin Frazier

There's never a routine traffic stop. Everything is always different. You're not going to run into the same situation twice.

Dominique McElligott

I don't like routine and I don't like rules.

Alastair Campbell

I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.

Michael English

The streetcar will always have detractors. Is it going to go away? No. Is it going to be expanded? Yes, sooner or later.

Sue Black

The sooner I can alleviate everyone's fears, the better.

Winston Churchill

Thus, be every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.

Rusty Wallace

I made my decision. I'm sticking to it,

Jodi Picoult

If he says jump, she doesn't even ask "How high?" She goes out and buys a pogo stick.

Martin Lawrence

My audience is a diehard audience. They are dedicated. My audience always follows me and sticks with me. They're the reason I'm still here - in the films and in stand-ups.

Barbara Sher

Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.

Ben Fountain

It's amazing what happens when you stick yourself in a place and let things take their more or less natural course.

Maria Shriver

I appreciate your support, particularly this year, for sticking with me.

Scott Westerfeld

Warning stickers on books would be a nightmare.

Chuck Eddy

Critics should stick to their convictions.