Famous Quotes & Sayings

If you get on base a lot, that's how you score.

Glenn Miller

If you are regulating on a basis of toxicity, from what we've seen, there is no basis for further regulation, ... But they are not regulating based on that.

Nick Swisher

If you didn't love that game, you don't love baseball,

Ozzie Guillen

If you're a baseball fan, that's one of the best ones you'll ever see.

Jason Bay

If you're 16-1, the last thing you want is a day off. But when you don't start off well, sometimes having a day off relaxes you. Not thinking about baseball for a day helps.

Shaun Cassidy

If you're going out to sell a new show, ... how receptive the buyer is is going to be based on what worked last year.

If you're getting hits, hey, you don't have to walk. You can get on base other ways. He'll bunt more. He'll do a lot of other little small things. Johnny was pretty much a power leadoff hitter. This guy is a different kind of hitter.

Judd Gregg

If you look at the questions the commissioners have been asking, particularly over the last several weeks, you will see that many of them are based on information we have supplied,

If you just looked at the demographic data, your first inclination in a cold-eyed view would be to say baseball is 10 years away. But if there is one thing I've learned with sports franchises, you have to have dreamers. They can speed the clock up. I do think baseball is inevitable in this market.

If you look at what the opportunity is for Microsoft, it's that it just starts to sell one thing instead of another -- it's not an increase for them. The revenue opportunity of the release of a consumer operating system is related to how much of the installed base you can get to upgrade by taking the new product and putting it over what they used to have.

Ozzie Guillen

If you come to watch a baseball game, the team to watch right now is the White Sox because we're in first place. If you want to visit another museum, go to Wrigley Field.

If you've got to depend on one guy in baseball, you're not going to survive. It's not like football - you can't carry the ball 30 times a game . . . You get one out of nine. You've got to be solid.

If you understand the science, there is no magic to this. It is based on sound science and engineering. ... There are no smoke and mirrors here.

In the winter, sometimes you get soccer rained out or early on in February, some baseball games. But to still have it rained out, it's a little frustrating. It's so hard to make games up.

Harry Reid

In the fullness of time, he may well prove to be a fine Supreme Court justice. But I have reluctantly concluded that this nominee has not satisfied the high burden that would justify my voting for his confirmation based on the current record.

Bud Selig

In the interest of security and out of a sense of deep mourning for the national tragedy that has occurred today, all major league baseball games for today have been canceled. My deepest sympathy and prayers go out to the families and victims of this horrendous series of events.

In the '20s and '30s, there were these musicals either set on college campuses or based on classical stories, so any of the Rodgers and Hart musicals certainly influenced me. I was definitely influenced by any of the 'Porgy' songs; I was influenced by 'American Pie.'

Fay Vincent

In some respects, it's the most damaging and difficult mess for baseball since the White Sox scandal in 1919.

In some oil fields there are hundreds or thousands of wells. The filtering allows them to focus on wells based on specific criteria, such as top producers.

Asa Hutchinson

In some cases, it's necessary based upon that (intelligence) to cancel that flight,

Barry Trotz

In Tennessee, it's a non-traditional sport. The casual fans are coming and saying, 'You know what? I've never had so much fun at a sporting event.' And now they're coming back. That's how you build a base for any sport. That's how you get fans to come to the games - they've got to have a good time.

Kevin Towers

In talking to him, he's got me excited. He really wants to show the rest of baseball he can be a real force. Certainly, he's going to be a presence in the middle of our lineup.

Insurgents used to mortar the thing every day. Luckily, it was a very large base and they were very poor shots.

Insurers use several factors to develop rates that are based on a driver's risk of having a loss. This way one group of policyholders does not subsidize another group.

In some years, we see the boating season just being delayed, and they might be able to make it up later in the year. Based on the tone of the last earnings call, I?m not expecting to see a spike for them in the third quarter. The next big question is: What is 2006 going to look like in terms of how the boating season shapes up and how successful will these new initiatives be that the management is waiting on?

In relationships based on equality, couples tend to develop sexual habits that are more in keeping with both partners' interests. Male-centered cultures where sexual behavior is more oriented toward procreation tend to discount the importance of sexual pleasure for women.

In my opinion, she is the best third baseman I've seen.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

In order to secure the Iranian nation's interests in nuclear field, the government has moved wisely, patiently, and based on a well-devised planning.

Estelle

In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from a very real place.

In Puerto Rico everybody is so excited because they have not seen so many big-league players before. The Latin American countries take a lot of pride in baseball being the national sport. They want to see this because this is so unique. In the United States there are so many games and there is a team in every city.

In patients with COPD, even moderate but certainly more severe COPD, each breath is something they have to focus on. They have to understand what they can and can't do within the course of the day, based on their breathing.

Tom Glavine

I like to be in a position of helping people. I find it very humbling that, simply by playing baseball, I'm in position to help so many people. I never take that for granted.

Mark Buehrle

I like to get out in the woods as much as I can to get my mind away from baseball and kind of get away from everything. It's nice to get out there and listen to everything, the wildlife and the smells.