Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm in the eighth grade and am not the height of the rest of my class. But I don't worry about that. I'm just me!

Ross Mathews

I played football in eighth grade, and even though I had a passion for it, it turned out I'm no good at playing it.

We just did not shut the door. Every time you put them on base, you give them life, and then they?re a hit away. It?s just a shame. It?s disheartening to play so hard for seven innings and then just hand it to them in the eighth and ninth.

Eric Chavez

You can go back in the year and look at the seventh, eighth and ninth inning; we played well enough to win. We should have won those ballgames. ... Hopefully (the poor performance of the relievers) will be addressed this offseason.

Just inside the eighth pole, he had nothing.

Like I've said before, I can't get to a mile and an eighth fast enough.

I was thrilled for them (after districts) because when they were in eighth grade, they had potential. Seeing that I had a small part in helping them reach that potential is special to me.

I was happy with our eighth graders. They have never competed in a match like this. I am sure it was a little intimidating for them. It was a learning experience.

I was in eighth grade when I did my first Junior Theatre show. I was in 'Annie Get Your Gun' as a dancing Indian.

We don't feel like we have a lot of pressure. We were supposed to finish like eighth or ninth. We played Minnesota exceptionally well and we got to go into Iowa and do the same things.

Holly Black

I've loved vampires for a very long time. In eighth grade, I guess, my research paper was on vampires.

I'm always making stuff in ceramic, since I was in eighth grade.

I'm always excited, ... Pitching in the eighth inning, in games like this, it can't get any better than this. I like to show emotion; that's my natural style.

I felt like I also needed some time off too, because I had been playing nonstop for like five years since about eighth grade. I needed some time off, but not five months.

Going a mile and an eighth first time out was pretty tough, but that race moved him a lot more forward than I could have just training him.

How would you know? When I played, you were in your third year of eighth grade.

He's played well and helped us gain our legs. It's nice to have an eighth grader who can play as well as he is playing right now. It's nice to have that luxury.

He could do the work of any grown man by the time he was in the eighth grade.

He had seven strokes, and the eighth one killed him.

Chipper Jones

If we can get outs in the seventh, eighth and ninth innings, we'll be fine. We're going to score some runs. We've got plenty of starters. But we've got to hold the fort down after the starter goes out.

If they had come in eighth we would have been tickled to death. They have the talent. They were the most talented pair team in the competition, it's just that with them being young and inexperienced, you never know what's going to happen under stress. And with young teams, the judges tend to not give out good marks. But they skated brilliantly. They were sort of the talk of the competition.

I did it from kindergarten through eighth grade. I twirled and I danced.

Adam Wainwright

Whenever that phone rings, I'm always looking. I could be going in in the fifth inning or the fourth inning, or I could be going in there seventh or eighth inning. Nobody's said anything to me. I'll just be ready.

We stole one in the eighth and then we stole one in the ninth with the squeeze. It was kind of nice.

Luis Walter Alvarez

One indicator of Ernest Lawrence's influence is the fact that I am the eighth member of his laboratory staff to receive the highest award that can come to a scientist - the Nobel Prize.

Eric Chavez

We've always had good (closers) in the ninth inning. But the seventh and eighth has been a real strength for us this year.

Allen Iverson

We're going to need team efforts, we're going to need each other down the stretch. With 29 games to go, we've got to win more than half of those to give us a better seed in the playoffs. We don't want to settle for the eighth spot. We want to try and get as high as we can.

Alexei Kovalev

We're fighting for the eighth spot in the playoffs, we knew how important this game was.

We're down to a visibility of an eighth of a mile here on the mesa.

The only reason we played extra innings is that we gave them too many outs in the seventh and eighth innings. It should have ended in nine.

Those were big-time free throws for an eighth grader.

We don't have an eighth place on the wall (BHS mat room), so I don't want to put one up there. I went out and wrestled my match.

Phil Garner

Wheeler will get the eighth inning on Friday if it's called for, ... He's been good for us.