Famous Quotes & Sayings

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You want this whole environment to be fun for them. You want the game of baseball to be fun. You can have fun and also be involved in a businesslike manner and continue to utilize the techniques that we have been talking about over the course of these four days. You can get something done and have people going into the clubhouse with a good feeling about themselves.

Jacque Jones

Where I came from with the Twins, they were passionate about baseball. Through thick and thin, it was, 'Let's go.' It's something I have to get used to. I'm blocking it out as much as I can.

Henry A. Kissinger

Baseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on in your head.

Kwame Kilpatrick

There were never a lot of attacks on my work. We were building more parks than were ever built in the city, building more recreation centers, fixing more streets. We had national events, the Super Bowl, the (Major League Baseball) All-Star game, Final Four. We built seven hotels. The city hadn't built a hotel in 20 or more years.

Jon Lovitz

I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can't deny it. And it's very funny, too. Sometimes you're shy; you go somewhere and everyone's looking at you, so you feel a little self-conscious.

Jon Bernthal

I played baseball in college, and then I went to Russia to study acting and played some pro ball over there.

Jon Bon Jovi

I'm a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time.

Johnny Pesky

When you win you eat better, sleep better and your beer tastes better. And your wife looks like Gina Lollobrigida.

Johnny Pesky

Baseball can build you up to the sky one day and the next day you have to climb a stepladder to look up at a snake.

Johnny Bench

Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

Johnny Damon

People need to look at baseball like it has been sent from the heavens, and respect the game.

John Cheever

The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost man. One would not want as a reader a man who did not appreciate the finesse of a double play.

John Cheever

To be an American and unable to play baseball is comparable to being a Polynesian and unable to swim.

You know, Rome wasn't built in a day so you have to try to set the groundwork, set the base work and move from there and I think that's what we've done with a lot of the groups.

You could see the momentum change halfway through the game and they (Palm Springs) got it. We had a couple of base running errors and some mental mistakes, but I think that they were nervous. This is our rival game and Palm Springs played really well.

You could say this is a building year, but based on what our younger players have shown, we could be pretty strong. Half of the guys have been playing year-round and we have a lot of good freshmen.

Carlos Lee

You could say that. I get to play with some of the best players in baseball.

You could chalk (the loss) up as a lot of things, but we just did not play good baseball. Why? I don't know. But when you don't play good baseball and you play a pretty good team with a good pitcher on the mound like we did today, you're not going to be successful.

Charles Schumer

You can't have a campaign for a nominee based on whispers and winks.

You can't take anything away from Central. This was a great game. It's what high school baseball is all about.

You can't say based upon tonight's results that the City of Jefferson wants a Wal-Mart,

You can't really think about anything. If you over-analyze a situation, you're going to put more pressure on yourself than you need to and mentally, you're just going to find a way to just blow up, and I don't know if you'll be able to get the job done. I don't think about anything when I'm out there, when I have people on base in a one-run game. I just pitch.

John Kruk

You can't put a slug out there at first base and expect him to make plays.

You can't put 23 people on base and expect to win the game. You can't make six physical mistakes.

You can't predict the future based on the past. Lifting 30,000 people off rooftops with helicopters is not going to work.

Hu Jintao

You can see for yourself based on the reception that my friends here have given me.

Mike Lazaridis

The market for BlackBerry is our core customer base and that's what we've targeted.

Marissa Mayer

The market favors open choice for search, and companies should compete for users based on their quality of search services.

The majority feel the immigration debate is somewhat unfair and based on misinformation -- for example, that most undocumented are on welfare, which is not true. Legal immigrants feel there is a thin line between anti-undocumented and anti-immigrant.

William Cowper

The man that is not moved with what he reads,That takes not fire at their heroic deeds,Unworthy of the blessings of the brave,Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.

The kids are handling the rankings well. We just tell them to remember where they came from, what got us here. It's hard work and unselfishness. Maybe we're not the No. 1 team in the state, but if it's based on attitude, then we might be.

The kid is the smartest baseball player I've ever coached. He has a great instinct and a great feel for the game. He makes things happen for us.