Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Chabon

Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in which even champions lost almost as often as they won, and even the best hitters were put out seventy percent of the time.

Michael Chabon

I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant figures of dogs snatching at a little passing car, a miniature housewife on her back porch shaking out a snippet of red rug, and I made a sudden, frightened vow never to become that small, and to devote myself to getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

Michael Chabon

The first and last duty of the lover of the game of baseball," Peavine's book began, "whether in the stands or on the field, is the same as that of the lover of life itself: to pay attention to it. When it comes to the position of catcher, as all but fools and shortstops will freely acknowledge, this solemn requirement is doubled.

Luke Scott

How do you combat a man with a firearm? You don't combat him with a golf club, baseball bat or a knife. You combat him with another firearm.

Luke Scott

In college, I was like most young men, doing what pleased me and looking out mainly for my own interest. I had success in baseball and was very popular in school but all these things, which the world chases after, left me empty and unfulfilled. Through a series of trials and difficult times, the Lord opened my eyes to my sin and what would truly fulfill me. June 9, 2001, I received forgiveness and the gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ.

Michael Jackson

I wanted so badly to play in the park across the street because the kids were playing baseball and football but I had to record.

Michael Wilbon

Baseball should adopt replay, plain and simple. If we can see it at home or on hand-held PDAs, the technology should be used in games.

Michael Nesmith

First we'll escape, then we'll play baseball.

Like I always say, I'm just glad to be in the lineup, playing baseball.

Life events may force you to rethink that plan, ... Don't rethink your plan based on what's happening on the market.

Phil Garner

Let's see how he feels tomorrow. That's about kind of what I expected based on (the fact) he's been throwing off and on every other day basically for the last week.

Lets put it this way. If this was baseball, our magic number would be six.

Billy Beane

Lenny was so perfectly designed, emotionally, to play the game of baseball. He was able to instantly forget any failure and draw strength from every success. He had no concept of failure. And he had no idea of where he was.

Let's turn around what's been a declining patient base ... and let's grow for what I think is going to happen to Wilson County.

Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.

Michael Dell

Last year we dramatically extended the capabilities of the Dell direct business model through opportunities with the Internet, ... Our online customer mix moved from a predominantly consumer-oriented base to a far broader base including business and government customers.

Nick Saban

Last year was a mountain climb -- we were fortunate to be able to plant the flag at the top of the mountain and win the national championship, ... This year, we have won zero games. We are at base camp at the bottom of the mountain looking up at the climb. And it will be very difficult.

Jane Lindskold

'Legends Walking' was the first of my books to go to a second printing based on strong initial orders, but much of that printing never found its audience.

Let's fight together so this event won't be held every four years but rather every two, so the baseball world won't have to wait so long to enjoy this.

Leaving Boston was not easy. It was a high level of passion to win, a unique rivalry, a baseball operations staff which was a great, great place to work. That's what I need to learn here and need to recreate here.

Scott Anderson

Many of the upper level men players come from successful baseball careers and believe they are still playing in the major leagues.

Many of these biographies are based on rubbish that just isn't true, ... All the traditional stories came from Daniel Defoe, who of course wrote a lot of myth and legend.

Many of the plans that set out into this market, set out with expectations that they would have a larger base of beneficiaries. I do expect you will see some of the smaller, newer plans dropping out.

Samuel Bodman

Many oil producing countries do not operate in a manner consistent with U.S. federal law, but they are not based here.

John Conyers

Many of us find it unacceptable to put our brave men and women in harm's way, based on false information.

Many people get caught up in the non-stop gossip, rumor, and speculation that goes on every day. They end up making buy and sell decisions based on their emotions and using very unreliable information.

Seven weeks ago at our Dec. 7 earnings announcement, we projected a falloff in the current quarter of 10 percent based on slowness in the wireless market, PCs and peripherals, and a broad-based distribution inventory correction.

Stephen Hadley

Seventy-seven senators from both sides of the aisle, the previous administration and foreign governments all believed, based on the same intelligence, that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and posed an enormous threat,

Sean did a good job for us at the top of the lineup. He is our lead-off man and he needs to get on base and score runs and he did that in this game.

Senators that are looking to run are walking a fine line between supporting the troops and supporting their core constituents in the base of their own party.

Brian Sullivan

Secretary Jackson's decision will be based upon disaster data and other factors.

Austin Ligon

Selling, general, and administrative expenses as a percent of net sales and operating revenues increased slightly to 11.4% in this year's third quarter from 11.3% in last year's quarter. As expected, the moderate rate of increase in unit comps was not sufficient to provide SG&A leverage. Having a larger percentage of our store base comprised of stores not yet at basic maturity and last year's lower-than-normal corporate bonuses were also contributing factors. At the end of this year's third quarter, 49% of our stores were less than four years old, compared with 40% at the end of last year's third quarter.

Guy Ritchie

So it's based on the formula that you can only get smarter by playing a smarter opponent. Who is the ultimate opponent? Yourself.