Famous Quotes & Sayings

I can't say with any level of confidence today that it won't be played in Baton Rouge.

I can't even compare walking into that locker room today after this game with the way it was last time, ... We were 1-3 (after the 2003 game). I'm proud of these players today. We got down 7-0, but they didn't bat an eye.

Debbie Stabenow

I can't imagine we would send troops into battle overseas and the radios didn't work,

Alex Gonzalez

I can't put away my defense. If you're not doing nothing with the bat for one night, you can go 0-for-4 and win the game with your glove.

Great tournament, just fell a little short. We knew it was going to be a battle with Gall, and it was. They were ranked #1 and #2 all year. I think wrestling fans everywhere were glad to see this match in the finals, not in the first round.

Mike Hargrove

Give me an easy chair and a glass of tea and I can watch him swing the bat all day long.

Getting beat by East and getting beat by Althoff, that doesn't set well going into the sectional (seeding) meeting in two weeks. We're going to have to battle from here.

Getting relief on that basis, it is harder to imagine a steeper uphill battle than that.

Michael Chertoff

Get yourself into that command center in Baton Rouge!

Freddie has been in big-league camp before, but he was never much of a factor. But you have some guys who are late bloomers, and he's one of them. His name seems to pop up every day, whether it's about a play he made out on the field, or how he looked during batting practice.

Frank laid off some tough pitches and the bat was coming through the zone well. I was very pleased with what he did.

John Dryden

Fought all his battles o'er again; / And thrice he routed all his foes; and thrice he slew the slain.

Orrin Hatch

For years, we didn't have indoor facilities, ... I never pass a bathroom by.

Friday is going to be a battle but we're going to show up.

Sebastian Coe

From our initial observations, our hard work has paid off. This is a springboard for the next 30 days. We are in good shape to take the battle even harder and further towards our goal of bringing the Olympic Games to London in 2012.

Michael Brewer

When you said you were a battered husband, you intended that someone battered you?

When he first came up as a sophomore he wasn't a very good hitter. He was weak and he had really slow bat speed. He batted in the nine hole as a sophomore.

We wanted to win the battles all over the floor and that's what we did.

We were better than the Marlins last year. We were supposed to battle them to the end, but we had no wind left in our sails because of our schedule. Twenty-two extra road games beats you down.

Michael Vaughan

We were below par here but there are still two big games to go. Our batting is a concern but we go to Johannesburg looking to win the series.

We were trying to do that with Battle Mountain, and I think we needed to slow it down. We weren't being smart with our passes.

We were tougher today in facing the adversity, knowing that it is going to come and how you deal with it. A good example was in the two doubles match and Chris Thomas pulled a muscle in his abs. He didn't quit and kept battling and that was probably one of the biggest matches today.

We were tough at the end, tougher than we've been late in games. We've been through the struggles, and we feel we have the experience to battle through it now.

Al Pacino

The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.

Dav Whatmore

We want to start well whether we bat first or bowl first and it helps things when you start well and that's what we have not done yet.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul

We want to see some more patience in the batting line-up,

Virender Sehwag

We want to see him bat up the order. In the last few games he did not get a chance to bat.

Charlaine Harris

And by golly, love sure was a battlefield. Benatar was right about that.

Charlie Kaufman

The biggest thing that I came across, right off the bat, was that you can't shoot this like a regular movie with multiple takes. You have to, because it's such a protracted process, break it down to the frame and pretty much get one shot.

David Hume

Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure the few natural events, that are intermingled with them. But as the former grow thinner every pagewe soon learn, that there is nothing mysterious or supernatural in the case, but that all proceeds from the usual propensity of mankind towards the marvellous, and that, though this inclination may at intervals receive a check from sense and learning, it can never be thoroughly extirpated.

Antonio Villaraigosa

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.

We accomplished what we needed to. We're really swinging the bats right now and a lot of kids had unselfish at-bats when the game was still tight. We had some walks and a couple of kids got hit and then the big boys knock them in. We just don't have an easy out in the lineup.

Andrew Demetriou

We always hear talk of clubs trying to sign new members but one of the biggest battles they have is to retain all of their members from the previous year.