Famous Quotes & Sayings

I have no problem with Luna. That's just baseball.

Nicholas Sparks

I have no preference on writing in contemporary or historical periods-that decision is based on the story.

I have never run campaigns based on an ethnic coalition.

Jimmy Rollins

I had no idea until Larry Andersen told me the other day. I don't even know when it started. I do know the first 10-12 games I only was getting one hit, but it was in big situations. I try to get on base and score a run at least once a game. If I do that, I feel like I've done my job.

I had to send a couple of guys to look for him. I was more worried about him, his health, than our baseball team.

Justin Trudeau

I had to learn to dismiss people who would criticize me based on nothing, but I also had to learn not to believe the people who would compliment me and think I was great based on nothing. And that led me to have a very, very strong sense of myself and my strengths.

Chipper Jones

I'm very impressed. I've been wanting to go over to Japan for a long time to play on the All-Star tour. Everybody tells me they usually kick our butts when we go over there. So major league-caliber baseball is played over in Japan, too.

I'm very hopeful based on what I've seen in practice. The returning guys are stepping forward and the freshmen have jelled right in with the team. I have no fears that we can't do the job.

I never thought I could get a state title in baseball and somehow not get one in tennis. After the season ended, I thought, heck I'll end my baseball career with a state championship and go back to tennis and see if I can duplicate that.

I never really took to golf until I was in the sixth grade, because I was always playing baseball.

I'm very proud of him, ... For me, personally, he's certainly one of our very best stories and one of the best baseball stories we've had. I'm always impressed by guys who beat long odds. When you hear these stories of guys who were undrafted as juniors and have beaten the odds by long shots, I think they're great stories.

Chris Capuano

I'm very happy to have the win and the runs, but it was a tough game to pitch in the sense that there were a lot of long innings,

Dontrelle Willis

I'm very excited just to meet with him and talk baseball with him. He's an experienced winner and he comes from a great organization that knows how to win. I think he's going to put that personality and that feeling in our locker room, so it's a good choice.

I'm sure that both sports offer their own unique challenges when developing young talent. But I think baseball is more of a crapshoot because you're generally looking at a longer time frame in the maturation process of a young prospect.

David Eckstein

I'm thrilled that they can't potentially walk him. There's no base to put him.

Livan Hernandez

I'm thinking the guy on second base give the sign,

Livan Hernandez

I'm thinking the guy on second base gave the sign.

Kevin Spacey

In film, movies' schedules are based on three things: actors' availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place you're going to film in.

In football you have to be big, and in basketball you have to have height, but in baseball, if you are a good worker, you'll be OK. This is a game of tradition, and it's important to play it the right way.

Influential people aren't buffeted by the latest trend or by public opinion. They form their opinions carefully, based on the facts. They're more than willing to change their mind when the facts support it, but they aren't influenced by what other people think - only by what they know.

In general I am not as pessimistic as Gartner, but I am not as optimistic as Microsoft. I am a little concerned about some of the predictions based on the software (builds) we are seeing now?each build is more stable than the previous build?but there is still a long ways to go. If we don't see substantial stability improvements in May when we get Beta 2 then I will be worried.

In history, Cuba has always been a really strong team. I realize how strong the baseball system is in Cuba. Probably everybody knows about Cuba.

In handsets, you need processing power for one channel. In a base station you need a chip that can handle up to 12 simultaneous calls.

India has been and continues to be a strategic market for Cisco both in terms of business opportunities and as a base for outstanding engineering talent,

In Boston, he was the face of that team. In New York, he's just a piece of the puzzle. He puts Jeter back in the No. 2 hole where he is tremendous. He's going to bring speed with the hit-and-run and his base stealing. I've always respected him as a player. But he has to earn my respect as someone in the clubhouse.

In Chicago, we may not think the Picasso presiding over the Richard J. Daley Center plaza is art, but we know it's a big Picasso and it's the city's Picasso, and when the Cubs made the play-offs, the sculpture wore a baseball cap just like everything else.

In baseball, you're either moving forward or you're going backward. We're going backward.

In baseball you play every day so you have to be able to bounce back and I am glad that we bounced back and were able to play pretty well.

Livan Hernandez

In baseball, you make one mistake, you can lose the game, ... One mistake.

In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time, your focus is on the common goal of the team to win. This is part of what resonates with people about baseball. This is how they would like society to work.

Choo Freeman

In baseball terms, I guess I am, but I feel welcome here.

In baseball, players don't like being shown up and umpires are professionals and we don't like to be shown up either. When he did it the second time I felt that he should be told in no uncertain terms it wasn't going to be tolerated.

John Smoltz

In baseball history, it'll never be done again, ... We did it in such strange ways every single year.