Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nan Aron

The President has laid down the gauntlet and the battle is now wide open.

The pressure they lay on is just relentless. For our girls to battle that long is incredible.

Ryan Smith

Those are two of the best kids in the country. It's one of those things he's got to learn from. Dan Gable lost his last match. He will battle back and try to get third. That's not what he was shooting for, but that's part of life. A true champion battles back and I think he will.

Those are the kinds of signs that no candidate wants to have, especially one who still has legal battles coming up.

Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.

David Scott

Literally, a few years ago you'd have to change your batteries every year to ensure they'd work in a disaster.

I wish I knew. Maybe because they've been battling for the last month and they've been in this grind and have to win every night. Anything can happen in overtime, when the games go into overtime.

Archie Manning

I was very proud of them. It was heavy on their hearts and they moved fast. Peyton got the plane lined up. Their mother and I think that it did some good. I've heard so many comments from people in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. And after talking to the boys when I got back I could tell it did them some good, too.

I was very proud of our guys battling back after being down by two. Ryan had a huge night at the plate and delivered the key hit when we needed it.

Adam Everett

I was trying to put a good swing on a pitch. I was trying to give myself a chance to drive in some runs. I'm trying to stay more consistent and get my bat through the zone a little bit better and give myself a chance.

I was very concerned the first time we played Troy because they are physical and are better in every offensive category and we are better in every defensive category. It comes down to a battle of which will win the game.

I was happy to be up 12 points. But, you know and I know that Hampton wasn't going to go away. Everyone knew they were going to battle back and be there at the end. They have tough kids and you knew they were going to fight back and do whatever they needed to do to be in that game at the end.

I was glad to see all of our kids got to play. A couple of our pitchers did a good job, held them to two runs. And we swung the bats pretty well.

I was feeling a lot better than I was last weekend. All week, I've been going back to the basics, getting my foot down, and getting my bat into the right slot.

It explains Scott was helping to rebuild a deck at a home for battered women and noticed that an approximate 22 year old young man was staring at him. It was Scott's claim that he had tutored this young man as a child at St. Vincent de Paul Center for Homeless Children when he was in high school.

It feels great to come out with the win, especially with Chad throwing a no-hitter. Chad pretty much stepped up and did a tremendous job. He walked only one batter all day and we had no defensive errors.

It feels good to be swinging the bat good and being able to get out there and just be healthy and have fun. You miss those things. The team is rolling right now and just to be in the middle of it is nice.

Mark Ellis

It felt good to get the head of the bat on the ball. That whole inning was good.

It feels very good to be in charge of your own fate. I'm glad we put ourselves in this position so we are not fighting an uphill battle right now.

I still need to take a close look at my batting mechanics, but I'm just hoping that I'll able to continue playing like this.

I think our team finally came together. We've been battling out of a slump and it's a special thing to have everybody come together at exactly the right time of the year. I think now we're going to get rolling and make a good run in the league and national tournaments.

I think our main focus of these next few games is really defending people and boxing out. I think whoever wins the battle of the boards will come up with two victories, either way.

Mike Richards

I think so. I think you can get into the game a lot more right off the bat when you get into it (physical play) more. You get up with the pace of the game faster.

I think she was still hitting her spots. They just put the bat on a couple.

Ozzie Guillen

I think right now it's time to turn it up another notch. It's time to refuel the batteries and go for it. This month is real important to us. The first 15 days are real important for us. Hopefully we can go there and we believe we can do that and hopefully everybody on my team thinks the same way I think.

Mike Babcock

I think everybody realizes that we had a great opportunity. But you find out quickly that last year was last year. There are now nice pictures of the playoffs hung up around the locker room, and people were saying nice things about us and patting us on the back all summer. But now we are trying to reestablish work habits, foundation and identity. I think it makes you more hungry, because we all know how hard it is to get there. It will be a huge battle for us and we are excited about the opportunity to try to get back there.

I think Oracle's fighting an uphill battle there.

Peter Scott

I think, on reflection, that it was a losing battle right from the start, but when we were - I mean, I was - the ultimate in any professional officer's career was to command a battalion or a regiment in operations, and that's exactly the way I looked at it, and certainly I wasn't too worried about whether the war was right or wrong.

It doesn't mean he's finished. Also we'd like him to concentrate on his long-form-of-the-game batting and reignite that partnership that he has with Justin Langer because, after all, in Test match cricket they've been fantastic in being the cornerstone behind a lot of big scores.

Ivan Rodriguez

It doesn't matter where I bat in the lineup. If I do my job and we're a healthy team this year, we could win a lot of games.

Bob Barr

It does, of course, open another front for us to fight, We can fight a multi-front battle the same as the administration can.

Bobby Johnson

I tell our players all the time that we have to battle every time we go out on the field to have a chance to win, ... That was the case today.

I think I am losing the battle to keep up the good name.