Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Bouton

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

Tony Oliva

They gave me a second opportunity and 45 years later I'm still here.

Juan Marichal

When he hit a ground ball to you, you knew you had to make a good throw because he was going to be running.

Thomas Hearns

Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night.

Thomas Hearns

I'm going to fight again because this wasn't a fight.

Thomas Hearns

That was the fight. I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion.

Jim Coleman

Born in Baltimore, I lived there 1 month.

Paul Waner

Be relaxed and don't wave the bat, don't clench it. Be ready to hit down with the barrel of the bat. Just swing it and let the weight drive the ball.

James Collins

Be like Curious George, start with a question and look under the yellow hat to find what's there.

Delbert Teille

When I was 13 I was diagnosed with malignant brain cancer. I spent 13 weeks in the hospital getting treatment, and my parents had to mortgage the house to pay for it. I spent Christmas in the hospital. When I got out my father had bought me my first Lionel train set, a model Union Pacific line.

Lisa Delbridge

Bought a truck full of stuff for next year and they will be out here next year.

Tim Taylor

We talked about getting better in practice from day one. They bought into it and we never looked past anyone.

Nick DiDomenico

We just had a good group of kids who bought into what we've been teaching for years. In the past you might have a few kids who were really serious, but we had a group that did everything it had to do to be a special team.

Neil Wilson

No. I bought her something at Christmas time, but I didn't give it to her.

Donald Trump

I bought the land a number of years ago,

Siri Hustvedt

I bought myself a rubber brain, familiarized myself with its many parts, listened intently, and read more. In fact, I read obsessively, as my husband has told me repeatedly. He has even suggested that my rapacious reading resembles an addiction.

Henry Garza

I bought myself a pickup truck, a big one, four doors, with a DVD player for the kids. And I'm proud of it, because to be able to purchase something like that, it's just something we've never been able to do in our family, for generations. But when I bought it, man, I felt like I was stealing something.

Wayne Anderson

I bought my first one in 1963 and never looked back,

Kevin Cox

Southwest has made it well known to everybody they're going to push this matter,

Tony Ciriello

Boy, what a great guy he was. He went around and talked with everybody and shook their hands. He was a real treat.

Tony Stewart

Everything that I had heard about him and everybody that I talked to about him said he was a good kid and somebody that they thought had a good future. I wanted to be a part of that.

Jerome Williams

Eventually, everybody is going to have to pay their own bills.

Pete Prisco

Besides, are there really any secrets in the NFL anymore? Everybody knows what everybody is doing.

Joe Gibbs

Being what we are, human beings, the natural tendency is that when everybody brags about you, they write good things, you kind of read about it and you back off a little bit. We couldn't play with them last time.

Mike Hackett

Being a scientist, I don't want to get everybody excited and say this is all wonderful. But following two small plantings on less than half an acre, this spring we'll find a 40-acre piece and see what happens.

Juan Gutierrez

Big surprise for me because I don't know that everybody is going be here you know.

Ryan Harris

Everybody knows that we had 11 yards rushing last game. That's just unacceptable. That's nowhere near where we want to be as an offensive line. We've come a long way.

Jose Vivas

The way I see it, God gave us life for some reason and took away life from others for some other reason. It's a mystery. Only God knows why.

Laura Wade

I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.

Daryl Patton

We're a pressure team. We're going to give up some big plays at time but overall ... we gave up some big plays but the kids responded usually with something positive right after that.

Caitlyn Jenner

'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

Ethel Andrus

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost;/ but what I gave away will be mine forever.

Tomas Vokoun

We scored that goal. It's not like they gave it to us.

Bill Clinton

You gave me the ride of my life, and I've tried to give as good as I got.

Eric Davis

There was a five-point swing at the end of the third that gave them momentum.

Leo Beenhakker

When we started in May after three matches the team only had one point and nobody gave us a chance. In the qualifying matches it went better and better, and this, of course, is the result.

Kevin Frandsen

He's wearing a Giants uniform, and I'm playing for his team, too.

Ned Colletti

He has not informed the Giants of that decision.

Murray Rothbard

Monetary inflation not only raises prices and destroys the value of the currency unit; it also acts as a giant system of expropriation.

Al Pacino

[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.

Andy Stanley

The sermon begins in the parking lot.

Tony Marino

I just wish people would go with the flow. I mean, a parking meter is like a restaurant table: We have to turn these things over.

Ted Forrest

It's better than parking in the parking lot. This way, you just pull right up to the curb, pick up your people and go.

Adam Fritz

Their absences are excused with a signed form.

Julio Franco

Why not? They signed me here for two years.