Famous Quotes & Sayings

The guy jumped four feet for that ball. I thought for sure it was over his head. I guarantee you maybe one other second baseman in the entire big leagues makes that play.

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.

Larry Thomas

The Gulick Project focuses on making a person feel healthier and successful rather than on weight loss. Weight loss is a by-product of this individualized program that is based on a long-term relationship between the member and the YMCA community.

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 inflation outlook remains very, very comfortable and certainly based on these numbers the Fed should feel very much at ease with current monetary policy.

Matt Long

I wasnt athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.

Matt Diaz

I've been sent down to the minor leagues six or seven times in my career. You've just got to have that stability. It's huge. It's comforting. And it's reassuring. To be part of something in this world that's constantly changing like baseball, it's awesome to have your hope anchored in something that's so stable.

Matt Holliday

I'm just enjoying playing baseball in the major leagues.

Matt Kemp

I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games.

Matt Kemp

I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball.

Matt Kemp

Everybody used to say that baseball players can't dress and athletes can't dress. You know, a lot of athletes now are trying to prove everybody wrong, though there are some athletes that try too hard and try to do over-the-top things. But me, I try to be simple and just make whatever I'm wearing look good.

Maya Angelou

If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed to stand there and turn the other cheek, so he or she can get a better angle at taking your head off.

Matthew Modine

I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money.

Mark Russell

You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game.

Phil Jackson

A coach's main job is to reawaken a spirit in which the players can blend together effortlessly.

Kurt Cobain

I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball.

Khaled Hosseini

I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.

Kerry Wood

I'm just a normal kid who lives to play baseball. I'm living my dream.

Kerry Wood

The National League is baseball to me.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what were doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?

Norman Rockwell

I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers... only foxy grandpas who played baseball with the kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the backyard.

Orrin Hatch

The fact that Judge [Samuel] Alito is such a baseball fan gives me even more confidence that he knows the proper role of a judge.

The truth is, nobody really knows what to expect, so you have to be prepared. People make too many decisions based on incomplete information. You need to do your homework.

These are people many of whom are career criminals based on prior and current activity.

Miguel Olivo

These are my babies, ... They all have some base hits in them, I hope.

These are just opportunities to evaluate players as we move forward, but you don't make decisions based on one game. Generally, as a rule of thumb, if you get a point on the road in qualifying, it's a pretty good result. The fact that we played with a new group this game, the result's OK. Would we have liked three points? Sure. But that's the way it is.

John Fleming

These are high-end items that consumers typically find at specialty stores and not necessarily at Wal-Mart, ... The idea is to take our base business and layer it with unexpected products.

These are baseless allegations, a lot of 'He said, she said' things we just don't see in a termination case.

These in-store clinics will offer the customer base a convenience that will fit in with their lifestyle.

Luis Sojo

These guys enjoy the competition. They are baseball players -- that's what they do. Because they are representing the country makes it more special. I expect good things. There is a lot of pride for Venezuela.

William Collins

This is our nation's capital. To have Major League Baseball return to our nation's capital has a special significance, ... There's the opportunity to own something that has been a part of the tradition and legacy of the city and the surrounding area, and now can become part of the fabric of our community.

Adam Everett

This is our home field. If we want to close it, we should be able to close it. That being said, they are Major League Baseball and they have their rule.