Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think on any given day, you'll get a base hit on that. The way he was pitching, I thought the decision was to show him respect and give him a chance to do something special.

I think our bills do have a good chance of passing the Legislature this year, based on the governor's support. I'm guardedly optimistic.

Peter Pace

We do not have a plan that specifically says we will be down below 100,000 by the end of 2006. What we have is a plan that allows us to keep what we have today for the foreseeable future and then off-ramps and on-ramps based on conditions on the ground.

We do it so when we're setting our spending priorities, we're setting them based on what people want us to be spending their money on.

We do have to have some guidelines, but I think we can have the guidelines based on number of participants and look at each individual sport.

Jake Peavy

Those guys know that when you step on the baseball field, friendship is out the door. I'm going to do everything I can to get them out.

Janis Joplin

Which showed that my interest in rock was not based in a vast knowledge of their work. It was about them.

Which is immediate fear for a person's life or the life of another. It clearly fell within those guidelines based on the information received by the board.

Without a land base you're not a people, you're not a nation. That's been a struggle for our people for over a century now.

We received information from a citizen who suspected it may be a marijuana grow operation based on observations they had made on their own.

We're convinced the Rocky franchise is as strong as ever, with a whole new generation of filmgoers ready to be introduced and an established fan base eager to be reacquainted with this iconic character.

Darin Erstad

We don't put that on one guy. We're a team here and we'll do it all together. We'll try to have good at-bats, try to get guys on base, and when we get guys on base that's when we can do our stuff.

Rachel Sklar

You actually can be passionate about things like making rational decisions based on a thorough airing of the facts, a reasonable and informed debate, a respect for the Constitution that includes, um, knowing about it.

Kathleen Brown

We expect about 30 to 40 percent of that will finance women-owned business, based on the makeup of the small-business segment, but there is no upper limit.

We estimate A & B's investment to be around $650 million based on our plans right now. This could be a six to eight, possible a ten, year project by the time all the residential is sold.

We ended on a very good note. What it comes down to is scoring the runners on base and (on Sunday) we did that.

We really wanted to book performers and guest judges from varying backgrounds. We even have a pro wrestler joining us this year. Big & Rich kicked off our premiere with unbridled energy and provided the contestants with a lot of great suggestions based on their own experiences in the industry. I think Nashville Star fans will find themselves more excited than ever as the season begins to unfold.

We really, really need someone to go forward with this in the county. It's a huge industry. A lot of people are misinformed when they think it doesn't mean much to the whole tax base because it's huge.

We really need to grasp the concept that extra bases matter, you can't be balking guys over and wild-pitching guys over. I don't care if you're playing Miami of Florida or the New York Yankees; you want to make it difficult (to score runs).

We got good pitching, pretty steady defense and some heads-up base running.

We finally got those big base hits with two people in scoring position, instead of the two-out hit with nobody on, which we had been doing.

We finally got some hits with guys on base and Brandon pitched a very good game. Brandon got first-pitch strikes on 18 of the 24 batters he faced.

Bruce Bochy

We don't have a lot of depth at third base in the system. That's like having a prospect there, but we got him as a sixth-year free agent. That's a great find.

We have squandered away too many opportunities, ... I don't want to see this one pass us by. An LNG storage facility would provide jobs, a real tax base and most important - tax relief.

We have spent our first year establishing a customer base in a new part of the world as far as a motor dealership is concerned.

We have some good expectations for Nissan for the coming year based on a richer U.S. product cycle.

We have some discretionary funds based on need or merit. We thought the need for this program was there because of the growing Hispanic population in Logansport schools.

We can't be that specific about the economic impact, it's still being reviewed by the auditor. But we still expect (the effect) to be significant, based on their last application.

We categorically object to most of the unedited report's content and conclusions as largely without merit and not based clearly in the facts.

We can understand their (parents') concern. But based on what we were dealing with, school was the safest place they could have been.

We do think, in fact, there has been a reduction in the number of calls based on the voluntary compliance.

We do suspect that Microsoft will still release an early patch given the imminent danger to its customers from this flaw. As stated by the company about two years ago, patches can be released within two days if needed. Based on prior public commitments, we do suspect that Microsoft will issue the patch early once they are convinced that customers require the use of Internet Explorer in production environments.

We are thrilled Coach Montague joined the Marist baseball staff. His work ethic and baseball knowledge are unparalleled. His energy on and off the field carries over to the players and that is why he gets the most out of his players.