Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Piersall

If you want to talk to me, you'll have to put out that cigarette.

Bobby Thomson

In my mind, I had had enough of baseball.

Willie Mays

In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing.

I guess that I am more interested in shifting moods and atmospheres than song structure, but it isn't something that I sit down and plan out.

I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievable Truth.

Bobby Rahal

If you look at Andretti Green, perhaps ourselves over the last several years, I think having more than two cars is an advantage.

If you go too soon, you can come unstuck with 50m left when the guys are going past you.

Christy Mathewson

If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work.

Brett Butler

Instead my life has been like being mashed and mashed through a wine press until finally there will be nothing left but the desire to live by divine will, knowing what I'm really supposed to do and doing it.

I just wanted to keep the game close until we scored some runs.

Tracy Austin

I realized that this was a professional tour stop - the event was called the Avon Futures, a satellite tour of the Virginia Slims.

Arthur Ashe

Clothes and manners do not make the man, but where he is made they greatly improve his appearance.

Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder.

Gene Tunney

Being in top shape can make you a winner, while entering the ring in poor shape, not only cuts your chances of winning, but can be very dangerous.

John Hannah

Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.

Ralph Kiner

Cadillacs are down at the end of the bat.

I'm very, very pleased with all of the younger players we have played so far. There is not one that has disappointed us so we are really pleased.

Dontrelle Willis

Individual statistics are fine and dandy, but it's lonely out there. You want to share with the 24 other guys that helped you be successful.

Michael Irvin

I'm taking T.O., every day... He gives me the whole football field.

Michael Irvin

I'm surprised the New England Patriots didn't take the decision out of his hands. As soon as this thing happened, they should have put him on IR.

Muhammad Ali

I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.

I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward.

I once loved this game. But after being traded four times, I realized that it's nothing but a business. I treat my horses better than the owners treat us. It's a shame they've destroyed my love for the game.

Michael Moorer

I had a lot of downs too, it is no secret.

Thomas Hearns

If Tyson will come down to 200 and train the way he did for Buster Douglas, I'd fight him in a minute. Everybody wants a piece of him now.

If you can help other people understand those truths - and in my mind, the only way I know to do that is with large scale, multi-year research projects, where you start with a question and then very rigorously and comprehensively answer that question.

I'll play first, third, left. I'll play anywhere - except Philadelphia.

Jeff Gordon

I'll do a little prayer here and there if I feel the need to.

Claudio Reyna

I hear good things about Xbox Live from some of my younger teammates. I think it would be fun to be able to challenge fans all over the world. It would be cool to be able to play some of my friends back home in the States. I'm looking forward to trying it.

Natalie Gulbis

I really learn a lot from testing my game during competition and having the opportunity to compare my game and stats to other players.

Archie Moore

I'm like the drunk in the bar who wants just one more for the road.

Steve Blake

I'm often surprised by the level of media interest in us but I'm told that they find us interesting because we are different, even controversial.

Carly Patterson

I'm just going to be training for the next two months. Just training, nothing else. It will be really hard, but it's worth it, especially at the end.