Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Wright

There's a lot more to playing in the big leagues in New York than just the baseball part.

David Wright

I'm very modest. I know that baseball is a very humbling game.

David Wright

As soon as baseball becomes a job, as soon as I stop caring, as soon as the smile goes away, I'll hang up my spikes and do something else.

David Ortiz

The DOCF all started when I made a trip to a local hospital in the Dominican Republic. I was visiting children who had received life-saving heart care operations. I couldn't help but think that in another life, one of these kids could be my own son. If it wasn't for baseball, I may have remained in the Dominican Republic and who knows where life would have taken me. It was then that I knew that I had to use the gift that I received, to play baseball, to do whatever I could to give back.

David Ortiz

I just want to play baseball.

Danny Bautista

In baseball, you've got to keep working.

Fab 36 is the consequence of our growth plan. We are bringing the right capacity on line at the right time, based on customer needs.

But on the issue of the increase rate and the base number of the increase, the U.S. has made more compromises,

but not as much as I'd like to. I think we have a great tennis community. Our good base of support makes our job easier and more difficult at the same time.

But no customer is going to buy based on their existing wage structure.

But more importantly, we have to win tonight (Friday). We kept playing good baseball (Thursday), but a walk and a couple of hits really hurt us. But other than that, we didn't play poorly. They threw up a big number on us (six runs in the sixth inning), but we're capable of that, too.

Both sides worked hard in complex negotiations to create an industry leading contract for pilots while providing a strong base for the company's future growth and success,

Both regard one another as highly competent and straight shooters. The relationship is one based on mutual respect and trust.

Both the U.K. and the Caribbean represent hedge fund communities. It's not necessarily U.K. investors per se, but these are the investors based in London.

Both the players and the coaches look forward to this game. It is nice to get a win over a rival, and especially considering the type of baseball program that Juan Diego has now. This is a big boost for our team.

Both teams played great baseball. Two days ago we told everyone to wait patiently for today's game... This is what Cuban baseball is all about. Our players wanted to come back strong after losing in a mercy rule game and they came through.

Andy Serkis

Gollum is entirely based on the notion of addiction. The way that the ring pervades him, makes him craving, lustful, depletes him physically, psychologically and mentally.

Amy Jo Martin

I've never isolated role models based on gender. I have more male role models due to the mere fact that I've done business with more of them and they're leaders within the verticals I work. Of those, Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, is an entrepreneur and personal friend that I have a great deal of respect for.

Alison Gopnik

Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.

Muhammad Yunus

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'

Real Christianity is based upon God's word given to us through the scriptures, and His word is final.

Charles Spurgeon

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

Willie Randolph

The good thing about the World Baseball Classic is we get to see some kids play that we normally wouldn't.

The good thing about college baseball is that you can come out and play the next day. That's just the nature of our sport. You know that everyday is a new day, and we felt that we had a good chance to take two out of three today.

The good, solid fundamental baseball was not there. And we have six more games to fix it.

Kevin Hall

The governor welcomes the return of Major League Baseball to the Capital region, and we're supportive of the District's effort to maintain their franchise.

The governor's strongest desire is that the 148th Fighter Wing be given a strong and viable mission with roughly the same number of jobs on the base today." ()

The governor has never rejected an idea based on who it came from. She is always open to ideas.

The governor bases his decisions on what is best for California. The question of fund-raising is immaterial.

We've been preaching about that - play based on what you know you can do well. If we play hard, execute, keep going after the loose basketballs, we can make our own luck.

LaTroy Hawkins

We've been playing good baseball, and today was just a small bump in the road. Forget about it, come back out tomorrow night and try to win the series. We can do it. We definitely can do it.

We've been on the road most of the year, so playing on the road we're used to. We've played in some difficult environments and it's made us a better baseball team.

Steven Gerrard

We're improving all the time, there's still improvement to show -- we want to win the league and we're not conceding goals which is a good base to start from.