Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dusty Baker

The guy is a stolen base man. You know he's gonna run, you just don't know when he's gonna run. So, you just got to do a better job of keeping him off the bases.

Patricia Russo

The group will be neither French nor French-American. It will be a global organization whose headquarters and directors will be based in Paris.

The impact this will have on Alexandria couldn't have come out better. Duke Realty will be using this as a base for their expansion into the east and they will be taking all our employees as well as the properties.

The Indiana Northeast Development has a base of support and a credible voice in the region. We hope to be able to build on the IND history.

The importance of this spring labor offensive is not whether the increase was 2,000 yen or 500 yen, but that it breaks open a dam that will encourage future base salary increases.

The income base of the state as a whole is growing fairly well.

The incentives also have been much higher down South. Farther out West, the freight cost to your supply base is going up and up. That's why GM is closing in Oklahoma City... . Georgia has been really aggressive.

The industry and the technology that you need to produce these materials we'll have on hand. It's based on last century's industrial engineering technology.

The idea of it was that the city would help offset some of the offsite development costs, based on the extra tax base that was going to be generated,

The Dodgers have opened the door for me to take the first step toward my dream. This will be a good experience for me as a baseball player. It will be a challenge from this point and I hope to produce.

The doctors were responding to that first stroke properly with the use of blood thinners. It is unfair to critique them based on the information we have.

The division leaders better watch out for the Wild Card teams because that's what happens. Teams start playing playoff baseball the last month, where division leaders are playing well, but the pressure's not there. You've seen that happen a lot.

Magglio Ordonez

The division has a lot of good teams. Chicago is one of those teams. We have to play good baseball and try to do better if we want to catch them.

A lot of times our theme has been based on battles or different historical characters.

Jeff Koons

A lot of times, my work is looked at very much on the surface. It's very easy to just want to put something in a box - to say, 'Oh, since this work deals with surface desires at times, this is about consumerism.' And of course, the base of the work is... not about economics at all.

Bill Smith

A lot of major-league stadiums didn't have them. In the last 16 years, obviously, the game has changed dramatically. I guess baseball has become much more of a year-round program for players.

A lot of little things are based around Derek and I think that with me not being out there that makes a little bit of a difference. It's just a matter of gelling and getting together.

A healthy diet is based on breads, potatoes and cereals, is rich in fruit and vegetables, and includes moderate amounts of meat or fish and limited amounts of fat or sugar. The best and freshest foods aren't always the cheapest, but students can be creative in their shopping and cooking habits.

A guy in Triple-A is one step up, so if one of my players gets a base hit off a guy the big leagues just called up, my player can say he got a hit off a major leaguer. It's fun when you see them return from the dugout after getting a hit off those guys.

Peter Woo

A Hong Kong regional base would project your business presence in China.

Larry Lucchino

a grim-faced Henry said. ''I didn't feel it was appropriate for him to come here and defend himself over this issue. There have been things I have read over the last couple of weeks that are off base and I felt I should come.

Johnny Bench

Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

John Cheever

The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost man. One would not want as a reader a man who did not appreciate the finesse of a double play.

You can't say based upon tonight's results that the City of Jefferson wants a Wal-Mart,

Rick Savage

And really, it's my home life that my own personal foundation is based on and not necessarily the life within the band.

This is a great win. It was a great high school baseball game. It was well-played by both teams ? defensively, especially. It's a great way for us to start our league play.

Buck O'Neil

A lot about the game has changed, and thankfully, much of it is for the better. There is still work to do, but today we have a Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, we have black owners, managers and executives of teams...and look what Nike has done! The Untold Truth Collection represents more than a jersey or a pair of sneakers. It represents our lives, our story, our legacy.

Economic growth in the United States in the 20th century was based on building entrances to the middle class, from Henry Ford in 1913 to strong unions in the '50s and '60s.

The best thing about baseball is that there are so many situations that can occur. It was a tough loss but I think the guys will be fine. We have a whole lot of games left and I know we have the makeup of an excellent team.

The base molding is tall and has a lot of detail.

Jeff Flake

The base is literally screaming, 'Stop the spending!'

The base is his last refuge at this point.

James Blake

The baseball thing is a joke. Ten games out of a 162-game season for steroids is a joke. Two years is much more of a deterrent. It makes guys realize that you can't get away with it. You can't do this until you get caught and say, 'Oh no, it's not a big deal if I'm only out for three weeks or something.' If you're out for two years, that's a sizeable percentage of your career.