Famous Quotes & Sayings

Keith Ginter

I would think (general manager Billy Beane) doesn't want to pay someone $1 million to play at Triple-A, but my wife and I talked for about two days about it and we couldn't leave that money on the table. I have to provide for my family. The way I view it, it puts pressure on them -- if they don't want to pay me $1 million, maybe they can pick up part of it and move me somewhere else.

Brian Turner

Joey told my dad (Chamberlain coach Billy Turner) that he was bringing his cousin back down. We just thought it was all talk, or that if he did bring him then the kid wasn't really going to be an impact player.

Billy Wagner

I think it's a great idea. I think it's good for baseball, I really do. I just think it's not good for Billy Wagner.

Al Harrington

(Hawks GM) Billy Knight told me I'm not going anywhere, so mentally that's where I'm at now. I'm not thinking about it at all. He said if there's something that comes along, something that he's thinking about doing, I'll be the first to know before he does it.

Gabe Kapler

I think it's always an issue. Billy definitely is one of those guys who plays hurt consistently and plays well.

Caron Butler

I think that was real big. I was bleeding and they wiped me up real quick and stopped the bleeding for about eight seconds and I was able to get my free throws. I went back (for stitches) and Billy just came in and played great basketball. He picked it up where I left off.

Billy Connolly

I think that you'll find that Billy Connolly is British.

John Updike

Billy Collins writes lovely poems. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides.

Larry Rothschild

He's a young guy. It's like Billy Martin said -- if you tell him 10 times, tell him 11. Hopefully, that's the one that catches. He's gotten better and better at a lot of things. Obviously, there's room for improvement in concentration and not getting distracted by things. That's something we'll keep striving for. A lot of pitchers face that. Hopefully, we'll get through that.

Kurt Braunohler

The entire New York comedy scene has moved to L.A. - it's bled the New York comedy scene dry.

Don Haskins

That left a lasting mark on me. Here was a person who bled the same color as I did, yet he was treated differently. That's why it was very, very easy for me to treat all of my players the exact same regardless of what they looked like.

Friedrich Nietzsche

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

Kevin McNulty

We bled to death tonight. We couldn't stop the bleeding tonight.

Jeff Samardzija

Coach Weis has brought a confidence to this team that's just kind of bled through the team. It's kind of something we're trying to feed off of. ... He's brought a lot of things, but I think the mentality he's brought has just been probably the key part.

Karen Joy Fowler

Often, when you look at history, at least through the lens that many of us have looked at history - high school and college courses - a lot of the color gets bled out of it. You're left with a time period that does not look as strange and irrational as the time you're actually living through.

Ameen Rihani

Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians.

Bobby Frankel

She bled in that race, which is why I ended up getting her.

Bruce Willis

I found that a lot of David Addison bled into the character. Wily and intrepid and a loner and gets a pretty big kick out of life. It's only when in this particular film that he is confronted with a family situation that he starts to find himself on shaky ground.

Todd Berry

I think I probably wasn't as strong as I thought I was, but I never claimed I could do an hour and a half, because I just knew I couldn't.

Robby Hirst

I think the one from this year will be claimed by my wife.

William Scranton

(Lawmakers) claimed it was for their hard work. Well, you don't reward people for working hard. You reward people for getting results,

Gordon Strachan

He has never claimed to be a great player. But until we find someone top class, he will do fine.

Ann Veneman

In the past quarter of a century, HIV/Aids has claimed the lives of more than 20 million people and lowered life expectancy in the hardest-hit countries by as much as 30 years,

Maria Gonzalez

I had a very uncomfortable conversation with Turner. When I pointed out we were his constituents, he claimed we did not represent the general constituent support for this.

William Wordsworth

In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.

Nicholas Witchell

I placed my hand over her mouth and said: 'You have made your protest so please be quiet. She later claimed I swore at her. But I would hardly do that with the mikes on.

David Rivkin

I knew that the losses should not have been claimed on the tax forms.

Don King

James Brown died owing me $50,000. But I loved James Brown.

Margaret Levens

Just to watch the smile on his face when a chopper flew over. He died doing what he wanted. That was his passion and I know he was happy.

Michael Arrington

Journalists are supposed to put the people first, even before themselves. Around the world and throughout history, journalists have died to get the truth out.

Nadrine Stocker

I think it may have just been stress. My grandmother died on Feb. 9 the year before and I was thinking about that and it may have triggered the labor.

Pat Lewis

I always come on the holidays. We're like family. And Easter is a time of family gathering. God gave us his only son to show us he was our living savior. His son died for our sins and rose again, and that's really important. It's a day to give thanks to God.

Craig Reid

He'd been ill for about a year. He was a heavy drinker and smoker and he had problems with his heart. He was wasting away. By the end, it was a relief because he was in so much pain and he was so weak. He died in the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy and we were all there.

Solomon Ortiz

To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater.

Suzanne Fields

The rains in Washington on the day that Pope John Paul II died were unusually ferocious, as if the heavens were weeping with uncontrollable sadness.

Yogesh Bhattarai

He was shot in his head and he died instantly.

Aaron Rowand

It all started the first inning when he got on base. Everybody in the dugout was like, 'All right, it's show time,'

Pat Riley

Guys dug it out. Everybody contributed and it was a good win.

Carolyn Peck

I think the first half we dug ourselves a big hole. If we could start the game the way we started the second half, maybe we would have had a different outcome.

Carolyn Peck

I think, the first half, we dug ourselves a big hole.

Jeff Conine

We're in the dugout hitting instead of maybe giving up another run,

Steve Liddle

We told him in the dugout that if we knew you didn't want to hit that bad, we wouldn't have started you.

Dean Shaw

I thought we did a good job in the first quarter. But we dug ourselves a hole in the second quarter. Gentry had a lot to do with that. They have a good team.

Alex Rodriguez

I don't know why he got ejected. We had 14 people in the dugout yelling at the umpire and I guess he just picked out the manager. There was no warning or anything. I think it helped us.

Mike Hargrove

I couldn't look at that last pitch. I found something on the dugout floor to look at.

Richard Petty

If you ain't trying to cheat a little, you ain't likely to win much.

Richard Petty

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Richard P. Feynman

Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.

Richard Dawkins

Just because science so far has failed to explain something, such as consciousness, to say it follows that the facile, pathetic explanations which religion has produced somehow by default must win the argument is really quite ridiculous.

Richelle Mead

This isn’t a game. We don’t want mediocre employees who can keep the status quo. We want souls. We want to win. And you’ve spent most of your time here being mediocre.

Richelle Mead

I haven’t even really tried to win you over, Roza. When I want to, I can be very persuasive.

Retief Goosen

Pretty much whoever wins the tournament at the end of the week is the guy that putted probably the best.

Retief Goosen

You can't really measure your game. You can shoot seven under and lose and you can shoot even and win.

Retief Goosen

I remember winning the first time, you know, suddenly everybody expects, well, okay, now he should win every time he tees it up, win six tournaments.