Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jess plays the whole game inside and battles hard. She?s just a warrior.

Joe Girardi

Jim is a guy who played a long time in the big leagues. Every day he had to battle to fight for every hit he got. I like that, guys who have battled through adversity.

Koizumi has made the party his after four years of often fierce and difficult battles with his opponents within.

John Grahame

I think everybody came out and did a tremendous job. It's going to be a battle every night and we have to be ready for that.

Sam Taylor-Wood

I suppose I didn't cry in all the cancer crap stuff because I felt I couldn't lose the battle, and part of the battle was holding myself together.

Sean Kelly

I respected Greg a lot. We had some real ding-dong battles - especially in that 1983 Tour of Lombardy.... The finish was so close.

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all

Andy Roddick

I was coming in expecting just a huge battle and, you know, it's always nice when things go your way,

I thought we played a heck of a game up front and we talked about that. Some of these guys went to the freshman game. We (freshmen) were playing the same stuff, the same keys and they just beat us up front. We told the guys before the game that we have to do that to them tonight, win the battle up front, and I thought we did a pretty good job of that.

Scott Skiles

I thought the way that game unfolded made that a very good win. We knew we'd have a battle in the second half. We battled and made a lot of big plays on both ends. When it got really tight, we raised our level of play.

I thought we came out and played well in the first quarter. Then we lost the battle of field position.

E. B. White

I thought they won a lot of individual battles in the first half. They set the tone and tempo. The second half we did a better job of stepping up in some of the individual battles.

Daniel Alfredsson

I think we're ready to play them when the puck drops, and we're expecting a battle for 60 minutes. When we do play 60 minutes, we're a tough team to beat.

I think what this loss does is force us to re-establish our goals. Thoughts of winning the conference are now over, in my mind. For us now, we have a real battle for second place.

Jason Kidd

I think both teams are pretty evenly matched in the sense of them being able to slow down the game, and for us, we want to speed it up and get into the open court. It's just a battle of whose will and whose makeup will be for 48 minutes.

I think all three of them are going to be in a battle going into fall camp. The battle might be won in the weight room, it might be won in the classroom, but I think we're getting closer.

Jay Johnson

I think as we near the end of the season, that maybe will unfold a little more. I think it'll be a really competitive battle and I'm really excited about the guys we have at the position and look forward to the future as well.

I think, as normal, it was a battle royal out there between us and D.C., because it always is. I think the truth of the matter is that we were fortunate to get the win. As far as the football we played we can play far better than we showed tonight. But, as usual, we showed that as far as guts and courage and passion, we have it in abundance. That's what won us the game.

Dave Allison

I think any time you go into a game the most important person is your goaltender. He's going to lead you into battle - into the game. How he plays has the biggest outcome on the game.

I think this is setting up to be quite a battle in the corporate world. It's the Evander Holyfield-Mike Tyson battle of the corporate world,

John Mabry

Last year, it was like a machine. It just kept rolling and rolling and rolling and rolling. This year, it's like whoever steps in comes up and does the job. It's a different guy every night. It's not the usual suspects, because most of them are hurt. Somebody goes out there and battles and gets a key hit or makes a big play for us.

Last year it was a great battle and it was a close game between two solid teams. Hopefully, what we learned from that game last year, we tried to incorporate all season.

I will bring diversity, a viewpoint, experience, common sense, a passion for agriculture and a desire for reasonable solutions, to the issues facing all of agriculture. I am confident the new team of officers will fight the old and new battles with energy and integrity. With the support of our membership, we can overcome the obstacles we face.

Vince Spadea

I was just trying to forget about it. You want the battle to be on the court not at the hotel.

I think they have their candidate. They're happy with Rudy Giuliani. Why should I fight an uphill battle at this point?

Rod didn't want the 6-6 defensive tackles, ... He wanted the undersized guy who could leverage. He really believed in that, that if you can win the battle of pads, you can get off and make plays.

Pitching has been the key. But with top competition every (game), they know they have to battle every night and can't just go through the motions. The guys we've put in have stepped to the plate and done their job.

Physically, the infrastructure has pretty much been destroyed, but the battle is now on the ideological front. It's still a big problem.

Playing four games in a row after Christmas is not ideal, but that's what we have and you've got to battle through it. We've played Bozeman hard. Hopefully (tonight) they'll have a little holiday hangover and we can capitalize.

Lawrie Sanchez

Playing for his country means a lot to him and he has fought his way back into the team. Keith came into the squad late for the game in Azerbaijan and has been ever present since. He is a good example of having to battle your way into the team and keep your place.

Plattsburgh -- the land battle -- is a place that really grabbed me,

Planning the wedding is a trial run for your future marriage. The things you battle about now are clues to where you're going to have trouble in the future.

Jason Hanson

Physically, yeah, but mentally the reason I'm good is you fight the battle to stay good.