Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kyle Lohse

I've been out there battling my butt off all year,

Joe Blanton

When I came up last year, we were battling them for a playoff spot just like we are now. Any time we play each other it's a big series and every game is right down to the last pitch, for the most part.

Paula Begoun

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Matt Barnes

What an effort by my kids. These kids kept battling and battling. We had a chance. We kinda showed what Olympus is all about. We've got a lot of character and heart. O We knew we were heavy underdogs coming in. We were under the radar, and we were one shot away from going to the championship.

Ron Gardenhire

We had good at-bats from the sixth inning on. We really pushed the issue, kept battling and got a lot of two-out hits.

Shane Valdez

I still think if they were to wrestle 10 times, they'd each win five times. Welch just happened to win this one. They're so even. I think you're going to see them battling each other in freestyle, and even in college, for a while.

Scott Gomez

If it happens, it happens. Personally, I'm not going to be looking at the scoreboard. That's where we got in trouble. We were so worried about catching teams, this and that, and next thing you know we're battling for the last playoff spot.

Dick Vermeil

I think we will be battling all the way through the final minutes of the 16th game of the year to determine where we play.

Eddie Olczyk

He's been battling something the past few days. He will not play. We will see how he feels Thursday.

Will Morgan

We're here, we're not polar opposites, we're not competing for the hold of the city.

Matt Baker

There's just such a mass of hotels that just want to give the service away for free. When that's what you're competing against, it just gets harder.

Willie Graham

I give our kids a lot of credit because they are kind of down right now. They have had some tough losses and they didn't pack it in. They did a good job of competing and made some plays.

Jamal Mayers

I got hurt after the fight and couldn't go back out there. It started to sink (in) for me. We put a lot of work in every day, and it's just frustrating to think that we're not going to be competing for a Stanley Cup ... that's why we play.

Mike Schuster

She's competing a little harder and taking it little more serious than last year. She's doing a nice job.

Barbara Turner

I was out there competing just as hard as I could, working without my legs. I tried to go until I couldn't go any more.

Reese Butler

It's not even just a waste of money -- they're actually competing with us! They're hurting an existing, successful effort, and for what?

Darryl Anderson

The NCAA is an exceptional meet. We're excited to be competing in the national championships and look forward to gaining some success while we're there.

Steve Carpenter

It's real surprising because I know they were a high competing team and they were ranked nationally.

Leslie Howle

The thing I think I'm missing the most is she was so much fun to go places with. Sometimes, Octavia ended our phone conversations with, 'I'll be seeing you then.' I didn't get to say goodbye, so I'll say, I'll be seeing you then.

Mel Kahele

Actually, we ended up with a real deal, a package that I don't think we would have been able to refuse.

Luc Robitaille

It was the second time we've done it. Most of the guys ended up playing with their kids in the back yard, or they took naps.

Anthony Crescenzi

It was very well subscribed -- and that was why they raised it and it ended up being $4.8 billion.

Mark Philippoussis

It was a long day, but it ended up well so I'm happy. The hard work is paying off. I've just got to be patient and keep working at it.

Greg Holle

That shot gave us all the momentum. When he threw it up over what seemed like 15 guys I was thinking, 'What the heck are you doing?' but it ended up being the smartest shot he's ever taken. He's a genius.

Alfredo Palacio

The people of Ecuador, particularly the people of Quito, today have ended the dictatorship, the immorality, the great power, the terror of fear,

Cristobal Huet

Even if it deflected, I would have liked to get it. I'll have to look at it (on replays), but I'm disappointed that it ended like that.

Justin Leonard

Tuesday night, I ended up getting sick. I wasn't even sure Wednesday if I was going to be able to play.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Don Kloth

Normally, we're a very good free-throw shooting team. But tonight, we weren't.

Dean Wagenaar

Normally we're a good 3-point shooting team but we weren't hitting anything today, so they just plugged up the middle and took Chad's shots away. We panicked a little in the third quarter but the kids held together. Bruce's kids are so disciplined, and they really know how to protect their floor.

Levi Leipheimer

After the first two mountain stages people realized Lance was as good as ever.

Chris Riddell

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

Rebecca Hornbacher

Deb, on the other hand, is one of our most versatile players. She played midfield for her first two years here at ISU, played as a defenseman last year and now is switching back. Once again, she has done a great job with the transition process.

Jim Yerkovich

(Deane) plays with the greatest intensity of any big kid I've ever been around.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Tony Blair

The standard of living and prosperity of the Iraqi people would be infinitely greater were Saddam not there,

Richard Grimes

The smallest pleasures hold the greatest treasures like the smallest treasures hold the greatest pleasures.

Jay Wright

Allan has a serious injury and he's doing OK and being evaluated right now.

Rob Blake

You never want to see an injury like that happen.

Ron Artest

The only thing on my mind is getting in shape. I've got an injury. So the only thing on my mind is getting over my injury and getting in shape.

Peter Thorne

I haven't played that much and then I got an injury at the worst possible time,

Bill Cowher

Tommy had the MRI and right now it looks like he has a non-surgical injury to his elbow. He will not be able to throw for six weeks and then at that point he will be able to start throwing and we will see where he is.

Bobby Johnson

It's been kind of a normal injury pattern,

Publilius Syrus

Even to smile at the misfortunes of others is to do an injury.

Matt Giampietro

It's just a world of difference. The brace is strictly for the type of injury he has.

Jim Provuncher

They have a very quick quarterback and they have a running back who ran very well (in the Injury Fund). If we don't do the things we're supposed to do defensively, we can get burned.

Roxane Gay

Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's true because I write about very personal things, and I use the personal often to contextualize some of these sociopolitical issues that we're dealing with. And to an extent, they're right. They know something about me.

Fred Harran

Anything that a pedophile can utilize to find the location of the child. These people are smart, just because they have issues doesn't mean they're stupid.

Charles Bass

There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.

James Wolfensohn

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

Diane Duane

The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.

Craig Kilborn

President Bush said John Kerry is on both sides of every issue. And Kerry replied, 'No, I'm not ... but there is some truth to that.'

Elbert Hubbard

God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.

Frank Aquila

Essentially, they (Guidant) are going to say ... yes there have been issues at Guidant, but do those issues give rise to a right on the part of Johnson & Johnson to walk away from the transaction?

Alex Karpovsky

My day-to-day local issues are rooted in an underlying fear of death.

Chris Shays

No, what I wanted you to do was do your job,

Brett Ratner

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.

Brett Favre

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

Brandon T. Jackson

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Brandon Sanderson

Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.

Brandon Sanderson

My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.

Barbara Steele

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

Benigno Aquino III

I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

Brian Sandoval

Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.

Erik Zabel

The sprint was long and difficult, Bennati kept me on my toes all the way to the finish.

Bradley Morgan

The reason I kept this season going is because I've got 10 seniors who've been playing since the seventh grade,

Joe Girardi

Too many 2-0 counts. But he kept us in the game.

Judd Gregg

She was a very pleasant young woman. She might have kept it and for all I know it might have been the winning ticket,

Mike Ramsey

She's got no case. Never has and never will. If Ms. Pirro had kept her mouth shut, none of this would have happened.

Chamberlain Oguchi

Shooters keep shooting. I'm not going to make every shot, but I kept shooting and I knew it was going to fall.

Dr. Beebe

Cheryl was my friend. She kept looking for me (whenever she didn't see me).

Wes Jr

I don't know if my pro-am partners liked me much. I was on the phone all the time, kept text-messaging to know what was happening. I didn't play all that well.

Jose Cortez

I didn't think I was going to get released. I thought I was going to get another week over there and if I kept having those same problems, then I was going to have a problem.