Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted White

No one play costs you the game. I was pretty impressed that we were able to battle back and tie it up.

Phil Garner

Munson had a nice spring training. If he continues to swing the bat like he's been doing in spring training and give us a threat, then that's a good thing.

Delmon Young

My behavior was completely unacceptable. I want everyone to know that I recognize that it is never right to throw a bat and I certainly never intended for the bat to make contact with the umpire.

Shane Watson

My batting is up to being in the top six and my bowling is on the improve,

Mike Hargrove

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

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.

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

From time to time we do these investigations and try to battle prostitution on 14th Street and in some of these lingerie shops, but the problem is, there's unfortunately a demand for it. It's an ongoing problem.

Alex Rodriguez

I expect a lot out of myself. When I swing the bat really well, the boys roll. It's important for me to go out and take responsibility for what I have to do each and every day.

Allan Ray

I faced odds when glaucoma took the bat out of my hands. But I didn't give in or feel sorry for myself. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: 'It may be cloudy in my right eye, but the sun is shining very brightly in my left eye.'

From the mental aspect, it's going to help the team morale a lot. You come out off the bat down, 24-0, and it wears the mental edge of the kids down a lot.

Damon Galgut

I go for long walks in Newlands Forest in Cape Town, and I go to the Turkish baths on Sunday mornings.

If the guys around him are swinging the bat well, he's naturally going to get better pitches to hit. Now he's been overanxious because they're not coming after him. We don't have enough guys around him swinging the bat really well.

He was a pleasant surprise last year. They said his bat was not that good, and he did an outstanding job for us. Defensively, he's good. He plays the game hard, he's a smart kid. I think he's got a chance (to play for the Devil Rays).

Frank Robinson

He was all right, but the Tigers can make it rough, because they put the bat on the ball. It's no big deal.

Dan Mullen

He would be in our meetings, then run out to take batting practice. Even if he couldn't go out on the (football) field, he would try to come see us and he would come in on his own time and study film.

I was swinging the bat well today. But it's not just me. We all are starting to swing it.

I wish I could say I wanted to be batting like this at this point in the year, but I can't say that. It's nice. I'm hoping to keep it up.

I would be glad to go to bat for her. She was a very credible, believable person and deserves that sort of respect in this situation now.

I was pleased with our effort. We didn't win, but we battled back, and that kind of battle is what I'm looking for.

Mike Robinson

If we knew how tough the weight class was, we might have reconsidered our decision. But you never know. Maybe he'll knock off the No. 1 seed right off the bat -- he's been wrestling pretty well.

If we can't win the battle in court, we'll find every voter we can touch and make sure they have every piece of information needed to participate.

If we can swing the bat and be particular about what pitches to swing at, and be patient and stuff like that, I think we can put some pressure on some people. You look at the numbers these guys put over through the course of the year, there's no easy out in there. That makes it tough on everybody.

Sergei Gonchar

If we can somehow fix this problem, it's going to keep us in the games. The game is going to be closer, and we're going to have a better chance in the third period. It's so hard to come back when you're down two goals, and we put ourselves in the position of having to battle back. It's hard to do.

Tim Carter

If we could translate, I'm sure it would be bat profanity.

If we could just run him up or see him, we could say we know where he's at, we know he's there. We could start with a battle plan.

Prince William

She was incredible -- nothing stopped her at all. Whenever I felt ill, I always used to remember that in the same circumstances she would battle on, no matter how she felt. She never gave up.

She's a team player -- she does whatever we ask. She never complains with where we play her or what we do. We can bat her second or at the end of the lineup.

She's having a pretty tough battle at the minute. She had a couple of weeks of very intensive treatment two weeks ago for another situation, so she's had a very tough time. But she's battling hard.

She's got some tools that not many have. She's a hard worker and she's strong. Her bat speed probably rivals a bunch of college kids. She's aggressive, and right now, those are things you can't teach as a coach.

She's considered one of the best in the country. We faced her before though and we're familiar with her. It's going to be a battle but we feel good about our offense.

Somebody is going to win. This is going to be the ultimate experience right off the bat for them.