Famous Quotes & Sayings

We made significant strides in turning around the business during 2005. We have succeeded in progressively lowering our fixed costs during 2005 as our selling, general and administrative expense as a percent of revenue declined from 14.5% in the first quarter to 12.1% in the fourth quarter. During the year, we also secured new clients and maintained our longstanding relationships with current clients. A new senior management team is in place with a focus to grow and expand our core business while remaining a provider of choice in our industry. We are encouraged with the progress we have made thus far and we will continue to seek opportunities to improve our results and diversify our revenue base in 2006.

Kit Reed

I've lived on a military base and in a convent boarding school with dobermans at the bottom of front stairs to keep us in and intruders out, and in college I spent some time at the Naval Academy, where everything was run by the numbers.

Phil Garner

He was excited, but he wanted to make sure it was a baseball decision, ... I definitely felt he's the right guy to be the DH.

I have enjoyed doing baseball but the opportunity just never presented itself to do it on a regular basis on the radio. I'm going to need a crash course on the Saints and the American Association but I'm looking forward to it. It should be a fun summer.

I don't know exactly what it is, but I think our conference is the best in the state based on the battles every night. Every game we've played, there's not a whole lot of separation. It seems like every night we go out, it's a battle.

Barry Bonds

I don't judge those things. I have to concentrate on baseball.

I don't have any steadfast rule. I think it's more of a generality. I think in Mike's case, he's a guy who expressed a desire to have a multiyear deal. Based upon his past performance, we were open-minded to it.

Ervin Santana

I don't have to be nervous; It's a baseball game.

Gary Henderson

I did see him pitch, and I thought there was a chance he might do that here if we needed him to. (But) I think concentrating on first base has helped him.

Tom Boonen

I didn't look for him and I didn't see him. If you base your race on another rider, most of the time you lose.

I don't even need to say it, but they base their lives on being physically fit, consistently training and helping others in their time of need. This is his time of need.

I don't enjoy doing the daily stuff... but I would love to do something like the series that I did on 'Change India.' That was not just news. The programme was based in public policy, so that kind of influences change.

I'd like to see how high we get. Maybe we can't get to the summit without (oxygen). Then, we'll go down to the base camp and get oxygen. I'd rather make it with oxygen than not make it at all.

Felipe Alou

I'd like to use him at second base when Ray is out, as he is often,

I did start writing about global politics way at the beginning. Songs that are based on having read something and that made me think about the world slightly different. I would write songs based on that new inspiration.

Todd Helton

I don't know what to expect. I don't know why baseball would make my stomach feel any worse than sitting on the couch. It's kind of weird not knowing what to expect. But I expect to feel good and I do feel good.

Larry Wachtel

I don't know that money managers controlling billions of dollars are going to make major choices based on this minor development,

Brandon Routh

I don't know that I can compare myself to anyone. The film is different, and therefore the character is different. This is just one more version that's based on everybody else's, with just a few tweaks that I bring.

I don't know whether the story is based on someone seeing Jesus walk on ice. All I know is that during that time, a freeze could have happened and it could have looked like someone was walking on water, particularly if it rained after the ice formed.

Red Grange

I don't care how complicated they make the game seem, it's really based on two principles and those are blocking and tackling.

I don't collect the stuff. I collect baseball cards. But I get calls all the time . . . It's a way to make a charitable donation in an unusual way.

Andy Roddick

I don't base my prospects on people pulling out. You have to beat the players playing best.

Peter Shaffer

I'd be willing to bet that any incursion throughout history in which the invading country has proclaimed it is bringing benefits to the conquered is based on a lie.

Peter Benchley

Ideas for stories come to me based on my life, so who knows? If somebody sends me to become an astronaut, that's what I'll end up writing.

I'd be disappointed if we're not a four-bid league, if not a five-bid league. This is a big-time baseball league.

I am a firm believer in the fact that a group of guys needs to understand the importance of 90 feet, that it makes the difference in a baseball game. These players will gain a strong realization of that.

I am going to Gulf Shores to spend the week with some friends. But I can't go until Tuesday night because we have a baseball tournament Monday and Tuesday. I can't wait. This is a big week for us.

Paul Quantrill

I am here because I do enjoy playing the game, ... I'm not sure I'm going to pursue playing baseball in the future. It's better for me to finish the season, be professional about it and see if I can't help this team. That's the real reason I'm here, not to prove anything.

Tommy Lasorda

He was to people all over the world what a baseball player was supposed to be like,

He was their shortstop. He played shortstop as a sophomore and junior. He didn't play baseball as a senior because of football.

Hedges is real strong, and they've got a good baseball team.

Had one of the best baseball minds I've ever been around. Connie Mack taught him well.

He has satellite radio and he listens to jazz mostly. And baseball games. White Sox.