Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johnny Damon

If we're just going out there just to get him work, that's not the Boston Red Sox way, ... We're sending him out there with thoughts of winning that game. He loves pitching here.

If they (J&J) are going to raise their bid, it would probably be by tomorrow morning. If you can wait until the 11th hour, why not wait? You don't want to give Boston Scientific more time to sell their strategy.

Geno Auriemma

Since I'm not going to be in Boston playing Sunday and Tuesday (at the women's Final Four) I wouldn't mind being in Indianapolis.

She's a freshman and still new to Division I. We made sure to know their plays and we have a good idea of how she's going to play. I get the pleasure tomorrow of marking up on her and I'm going to make sure she knows who Boston University is and that a freshman isn't going to come out and score on this team.

She plied the waters of Boston Harbor for many years. In 1927, she was sold to the Thames Company, converted to a freighter and renamed the Thames.

If Boston Scientific is to come back, they will have to come back north of US$75 to keep this alive. They'll have to come back at least US$2 or more higher than they were.

If Boston and Oakland start competing to draft players no one else wants, each will get half. As long as the A's keep churning out talent from the draft and the farm system, they'll be fine.

I can tell you our focus is on Boston College and only on Boston College . We haven't decided who will be in net. We'll have our hands full with Boston College as it is.

George Santayana

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.

George W. Bush

There is a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, 'I don't want you to let me down again.' - Boston, Mass., Oct. 3, 2000

Franz Kline

Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half.

Kevin Towers

I don't know if we match up on a trade with Boston regarding Wells.

Manny Ramirez

My main focus, like I say, is getting prepared for the season to help Boston win. I'm here. I don't live in the past, I live in the present.

Jim Calhoun

My fear is being flat (for the start of league play). When we lost to Boston College last year to start the Big East, we couldn't raise ourselves to that level. Having not played that kind of competition recently, I have concerns, but we have to play these two games first.

That class will end with a trip to the International Boston Seafood Show.

That first game in Boston was a pivotal point. We got down early, came back and tied it and ended up losing. I think that really knocked a lot out of us.

Johnny Damon

My time in Boston was great. But now I'm here playing for the greatest franchise in the world. The team with the most championships.

Meb Keflezighi

My No. 1 goal is to be No. 1 in my first Boston Marathon, and I always run to win.

Brad Boyes

My whole point this season was to prove to Boston they made a good choice when they picked me up. It was nice tonight especially after I started with Toronto and they kind of gave up on me and traded me.

I'm heavily involved with the interpretive portion of the Boston Mill project. I think it's important to interpret events of the past to understand where things are going in the future.

Bill Bryson

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

Skip Prosser

The ACC will be as strong as always, ... Duke may be ranked No. 1 nationally in the preseason. Our fans will also have the opportunity to see Boston College when they come to Joel Coliseum.

The 2003-2004 Bruins team has pretty much been dismantled, and he understood that. Leaving Boston is pretty difficult for Sergei, because he has been here pretty much his whole pro career. It's a fresh start, and Sergei will go to Edmonton and do his best.

Al Groh

That's a very positive thing for Boston College, too. I'd like to be able to say the same things about our circumstances every year, but in this particular case, because they have all shown themselves to be effective, it really doesn't make a great deal of difference who plays.

I would love to study musical theater in a big city. New York University and the Boston Conservatory have always been at the back of my mind.

I tell you guys all the time -- I'm a bullpen guy. I don't wake up in the morning and go to the grocery store and tell everybody I'm a closer. I'm here. I'm a Boston Red Sox. That's what I am. Go out there and win a World Series, that's all I'm here for.

Whoever doesn't get this company is going to be the lucky one. If I were Boston Scientific, I'd certainly find something wrong in my due diligence to walk away from this.

He probably would have gotten off the bus in Boston and we may still be looking for him today.

I don't see material upside or downside (for Boston Scientific shares) for the next 12 months.

He's nasty, with a mean streak. I got a hit off him in Boston and he gave me a look like 'You got a hit???' I looked right back at him like 'Yeah, I did.' I think Roger's tougher now than when he was younger because now he's got that split-finger. I think that's why he's still pitching.

Gregory Harrison

And that's the mistake that was made with Steel Pier. Roger was caught between a rock and hard place. It would have cost a couple of million dollars more to take it to Boston or someplace first. So we opened about a month too early.

Tommy Bowden

We did not throw and catch as good as we have in the past. I'm sure Boston College (next week's opponent), they might be similar and we might have a hard time running if we can't throw.

I've always been interested in both writing and music. When I first started getting published, I also worked as rehearsal pianist for the Boston Ballet, touring with them all over the U.S.A. and Europe - I wasn't making enough money from writing to support myself.