Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Girardi

He's been very impressive. There's nothing that says he can't play first base, either. He's played well enough. He's fighting for a spot just like Jake. You can't just say it's Jake's job.

Ron Gardenhire

He's fighting everything. He's really pressing. We need to figure out how to help him get through this thing.

Hopefully, we learn how to turn things around when something goes wrong. We need to make the adjustments. As a coach, I need to be able to figure that out and we need to be ready.

Hopefully, the referee will do his job. Hopefully, we just fight and give a good performance to the crowd.

Hopefully (the loss will) make us a little hungrier. Hopefully we'll have a little more fight in us.

The owners must be emboldened by what is happening in ice hockey. Some of them figure they can get the same thing over here. What they have to realize is how much they're going to sacrifice.

John Abizaid

We must fight the terrorists together so that we can have a free and prosperous future for the Iraqi people,

We looked at the schedule and figured if things played out, that's how it would go. It makes it tough.

We lost the meet today, but we only had nine guys and we wanted to fight hard to the end. That's what we did today.

I thought we were going to pull through and get one at Atlanta, one of the better tracks for me. But we do run good every time we come here. Some guys have this place figured out; we'll just have to go after them.

I think the problem is a lack of television dates, especially towards the end of the year. It is not a small fight to be put together for $50,000 to $60,000. You can't put it on a smaller television network.

Julie Brown

I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.

I think the American people are a lot smarter than that. They've figured this out.

I think that there are a lot of people waiting for the moment that someone will fight for their right to make a living with respect, to grow old with respect.

It is hard. A lot of guys are fighting for the same spots and it might be from the same teams, so it is kind of hard.

Manny Pacquiao

Last fight there were a lot of distractions in my mind, ... (Now) there are no distractions. I'm just worried about my opponent. I'm very focused on my training right now.

George Thorogood

I figured the people who liked the sort of thing I was doing would come see it. If it was only 200 then that was alright and if it was 2000 then that is alright as well. I wasn't really interested in the big numbers; I was just interested in some numbers.

Gary Sheffield

Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.

Sam Worthington

Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.

Stephen Hunter

I kind of figured if I couldn't get a job as a dwarf, looking as I do, I should just give up acting.

Sam Hunt

I was pretty gung-ho about music and pursuing that and figuring that whole thing out, so I was wide-eyed and ready to go when I moved to Nashville. I never looked back.

There are times when a sports figure doesn't deserve sympathy.

Buck Showalter

We are going to need to get it straightened out if we are going to get where we want to go this season. If it's not something we can figure out, then we will have to come up with a solution.

There are so many weapons in her game that just make us so much better. I'd hate to be the other team trying to figure out how to stop her.

Mike Bryan

The only thing left that we could fight was the new scoring system. We're going to give it a shot for a year. If it's not working, we're going to go back to the old system.

Kevin, he had a good game going inside, so I figured it's not really about me. That was what was working - going inside.

Knowing that figure is a valuable tool that will help guide the Planning Commission's thinking as they work to update the Comprehensive Plan.

Kevin was a fighter up to the end, to live, but she wants everyone to know he fought real hard.

Kevin Payne was my friend. His wife and children, we shared quality time together. I will always honor him as my friend, first, and a fighter second.

I wouldn't say it's futile -- the opportunity is there. It's worthwhile to keep fighting to save the resources we have there.

Anthony Hopkins

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor.

Alicia Keys

Even when I'm singing on record there's a lot of times when I'll fight for a bit of imperfection. I might not have quite hit the note to the perfect pitch but there was a soul in there and feeling that, to me, delivers the emotion of that moment. For me, doing a show, the excitement of singing live, and the possibility that you're not gonna be perfect - that's the thrill of it.

Alice Paul

Unless women are prepared to fight politically they must be content to be ignored politically.