Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dusty Baker

We scored a lot of runs in a lot of different ways. We executed the hit-and-run. We had almost everything in there besides stolen bases.

Marty Hurney

We say it every year around this time, hard decisions have to be made. In this system, in this era, if you're doing things the right way, you almost force yourself to make these kind of decisions.

Very surprisingly, they're almost a cross section of the United States,

Vitaly is such an intense athlete. He pushes all the kids in the practice room every day. His younger brother, Dave, is almost as intense as Vitaly.

Use a light touch. It's almost like making a scone. Knead it a few times until you form a ball, pop it into the oven, and you're ready to enjoy it.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

U.S. durable goods orders suggest the (U.S. Federal Reserve) is almost certain to raise interest rates two more times. That should support the dollar.

You got a favorable surprise on the CPI. We had the first decline in the core rate in 21 years, ... It just reminds the Fed, which said last week that the risks of inflation and deflation were almost equally balanced, that you still have some very residual deflation risk. And it ... supports the notion that the Fed might not have to raise interest rates at all next year.

Kenny Wallace

You go down there and it's a two-day deal, and you're in and out of there, as to where with the big track you have a car count of nearly 60 cars and you have a lot more hoopla. So, going to Memphis without all of the Cup teams there is almost like a vacation.

You go almost two through seven (seeds) and everyone is kind of equal. We feel like we have a good opportunity.

You have to remember, I'm almost like a rookie after playing three years in a different system. I'm starting to settle in, though, so it won't be long before that guy you remember from last year is back.

Ozzie Guillen

You get to the playoffs you got to win 11 games. In the regular season, you win 99 and go to the wire and almost lose. The way we played all year long it was like a playoff game every day. ... I talked to the guys. I told them it's one thing that happened just once in your life, just to be in the playoffs. Some people play a lot of years in this game and never have this opportunity.

You get to know these people. They're almost like family. How can such a decision be made to leave patients hanging like this?

You get sick of giving up almost 40 points a game, week after week.

You get ready for (the surprise) almost like you're going up a roller coaster.

Floyd Patterson

You get into serious trouble when - during a heated exchange - the mind starts to ask questions about your behavior prior to the fight. That's why many times we see a fighter doing quite well in the ring, hitting the other guy almost at will and suddenly, after a couple of rounds of failing to put his rival down or out, he starts to think about the wrong things he did during training.

Shaun Cassidy

You get almost as much atmospheric mileage out of putting a boat in the middle of a street as you do from a row of wrecked houses. It says, things are out of control. It's creepy.

Justin Morneau

You feel like a family during the regular season, any time you win the team's always closer, that sort of thing. When you're playing for your country, it's almost like you're playing for your brothers. It's a little sweeter.

Courtney Taylor

You ever been to Oslo? ... It's like that, but prettier. It's between a hill and a river, a ridiculously green and idyllic place. And there's a full-sized mountain, and the desert's not much more than an hour away. The cost of living is pretty low, which suited us when we started. In fact, it used to be almost free.

At the convention we've got almost 113,000 people from all walks of communication. The industry now represents broadcasting, the Internet, streaming media, multimedia and video post-production. So this truly is a convergence marketplace.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do -- namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.

At present, the team of specialist nursing, medical and social care staff travel the length and breadth of Co Galway on a daily basis to visit and care for almost 120 (predominantly cancer) patients,

Joel Fuhrman

A significant number of research studies have documented that heart disease is easily and almost completely preventable through a diet rich in plant produce and lower in processed foods and animal products.

Dominik Hasek

At this point, I am not very optimistic that I could start the next series. But who knows. It almost seems like the harder I work, it gets worse. I don't feel an improvement the last week or two. It's very frustrating. But I still try to do what I'm asked to do, and hope it's going to be better.

At the moment it's really difficult to tell if it's slowed down. I think basically it remains almost the same. There isn't much change.

Linda Gray

At the time, it was deemed probably the worst crisis to hit a college campus in modern times. There had been murders and shootings on campuses before, but in most of those cases the perpetrators were immediately known. This was a situation where five bodies were found over a three-day period . . . and Danny Rolling was not charged for almost a year.

Wayne Gretzky

At the end of the day, everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened.

Billy Donovan

Did I think I would be here for 10 years? You never know. You almost have to go one year at a time and try to do the very best job you can. . . . It's very hard to stay at a place a very, very long period of time.

Disaster management in Nigeria is almost zero. If there's a major disaster in Nigeria, we won't be able to cope.

Scott Bailey

Distressed' is all relative. Cowlitz County is almost always higher than the state, but in terms of job growth, things are certainly improving.

Ridley Scott

different project that I abandoned. And I almost did the Phil Spector story there for a while.

Pete Domenici

Does anybody think this president is not going to spend this surplus? It's almost like 'anything but tax cuts' seems to be what the motto is up here,

Stella Young

Disability informs almost every part of my life. It's as important, if not more so, than my gender and sexuality. It's certainly a great deal more important to me than my religion or whether or not I caught a tram, ferry or bus to work.