Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

I thought he could win but he finished eighth so I wasn't in a hurry to come back.

Pat Riley

I was confident. I haven't had to use my legs since the eighth grade. I just want to go to states and place.

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.

E. B. White

Part of it is because our volunteers are awesome. They are very reliable. Everything went smoothly. Every volunteer who said they were going to come did. This is our eighth time and we have learned a lot.

It's just one of those things. Maybe we need to just get out there and relax and not worry about whether it's the first inning or the eighth inning.

They've got a lot of talent and, being the eighth seed, they don't get as much respect as they deserve.

They told me I needed some ice time because I hadn't played a lot on Long Island. I agree. I don't want to sit there and be a seventh or eighth defenseman.

They're very sincere and want to improve the process. We want to take a look at the four-year plans and how they're being used. We're going to be having conversations with middle school principals very soon, because that's when they start, in the eighth grade.

They started giving ribbons instead of medals for three years between the eighth and 10th grades, then they started giving medals again.

Allison Robertson

It's very collaborative. We like to get everybody's opinion, just like we did we were in eighth grade. It's more fun that way. There's no ego. We like to split everything up evenly in everything we do.

For her to ski eighth is really overachieving for her. What she did was phenomenal.

You don't want to let him have 70 pitches in the eighth inning, which he did, but at the same time you want to .attack him.

Felipe Alou

There were many times last year that I had to wait until the eighth inning to get him that fourth at-bat and get him out of the game.

This marks the eighth consecutive quarter of year-over-year top-line growth for Cisco.

Kevin Towers

It's a tremendous program. I've been here for 11 years and we've seen some of the youngsters who have come through the program and graduated college. It's very successful. It's kind of neat to see kids at this age, in the eighth grade, ready to embark into their high school years and be able to feel that the Padres have had something to do with it, which can lead to very long and successful careers.

It's a tough tournament. We're just gonna have to play hard and compete. I'm not so sure there's much of a gap, when it's all over, between the first place team and the eighth place team.

It was really great to have people to look up to. The team we had when I was in eighth or ninth grade was so good. I really looked up to them.

It was a very tight game. It was just 1-0 going into the sixth and they tied it up. They got a little sloppy in the eighth inning and we stretched it out a little.

We knew they were going to make a run at us. You hold a team that's ranked eighth in the state to 37 points in the game, that's a hell of a job defensively.

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.

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.

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.

Chandler Massey

Back in eighth grade, I'd seen nothing but small-town Georgia when I left the U.S. for the first time and went to Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China.

Our eighth and ninth guys in our rotation were starters today and they played really well. It was a sloppy game, but we keep finding ways to win. We knew not to overlook Hickman County.

Of our 49 boys, 17 are freshmen, so we're still teaching some of the guys this isn't middle school anymore. Some of the freshmen are helping in relays and others are challenging in open events. Six or seven will make an immediate impact. We're talking about kids that maybe lost one meet in seventh and eighth grade, so they're good athletes.

Once we got (to state), we wanted to qualify for Saturday's finals. Then, we made the most of it and made the jump to eighth place (after Saturday's final two rounds). I'm proud of each and every one of them.

Chipper Jones

I've seen a guy who may or may not pinch hit in the eighth or ninth inning pop two before the game and another in the fifth inning. It's part of their pre-game ritual. Some guys have to have it.

I've been waiting two months to get to this race. I've been saying the mile and an eighth can't get here fast enough for this horse.

This is great for an eighth grader in an event like the shot put.

That one where five roads come together (North Eighth and E streets), to me, that's the worst, But you never know who gets to go next.