Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Gardenhire

Lew is fine wherever you put him. He's going to play like Lew, he's going to hustle, run balls out and hopefully some of his balls will fall in. Last year he wasn't as lucky as he had been the year before. A lot of times hits will go down to being lucky, and this past year he wasn't quite as lucky.

Brandon Roy

Louisville was bigger and more physical than us. Jon brings that for us now. Even if he doesn't get the rebounds, he's diving for balls and keeping other guys from getting them. He makes Mike and the rest of us play harder.

Mark Buehrle

Last year was totally opposite. My numbers - it's just one of those years. I don't know if the wind was blowing in or it was a little cold or the balls were flying out. If I did it every year, there would be something to it. But last year was totally opposite, so I have no clue what the difference is.

W. S. Gilbert

Last year when people slowed down our run, we had a young quarterback and we dropped balls and we made mistakes, ... There's going to be probably nine or 10 guys in the box. So then we have to be willing to throw the football.

Mike Harper

Second base has been a problem spot for us. Chase did a good job and caught a couple of balls there that we hadn't been getting to in games. Hannah played real well at short. No errors at all. You get no errors and you are going to win most of your games.

Chris Reitsma

Second and third with nobody out and a three-run lead, you want to trade some outs for some runs there. I was able to get three ground balls and get out of it and secure the win. It doesn't look pretty in the box score, but I think I did my job.

Greg Stack

Maybe you just want to be daring and put in a few bowling balls instead of traditional gazing globes.

Bob Wilson

One evening, cannon balls dropped on the floor,

Jenny Lee

My dad would just feed me balls before that. I kept pushing my parents to let me play in tournaments, but they didn't want me to play too early. They wanted me to focus on technique first.

Mike Conners

Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

Dick Corn

Macomb doesn't have a great deal of size. They don't seem to score a lot of points, but they do create a lot of points and scoring chances off their defense. Our scouts were pretty impressed.

Dick Nyman

Losses don't come much tougher than this one. We outplayed them the whole game, but two mistakes cost us. We had some great scoring chances but we didn't finish.

Jamey Gelhar

Last year, they took our chances away for the championship. We're going to be really fired up.

Jeff Lenherr

(Scott) has a strong desire to score. He's a very good one-on-one player and we've noticed that we've been getting a lot of one-on-one chances so far this year. Moving him up to forward helped stretch the defense and gave us a lot of room for chances.

Dwyane Wade

Second chances hurt us. They got a couple of second chance rebounds on us and that was the difference in us making the plays at the end.

Zheng Bijian

So long as the two sides can have a sober head to face the overall situation and handle the existing problems with a pragmatic attitude, can they seek the opportunities and promote the positive and sound development of the bilateral relations. Otherwise, they will miss the chances or even make historical mistakes.

Jim Rise

Missed opportunities. We had our chances and we didn't execute. We didn't play well today. We missed a lot of signs and the kids took themselves out of a lot of innings. We need to play a complete game and we haven't done that.

Takehiko Jimbo

Momentum for the yen is good. Fukui's comments and this newspaper report fed speculation about a March policy move, increasing the chances of a rate hike by the end of the year.

Alexandra Paul

Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.

Robert Osborne

When a movie opened - if you lived in New York, you would see it at Radio City Music Hall where it would play a couple of weeks, and then you moved on to the next movie. Now you can see it the rest of your life - it's going to be on Netflix and DVD.

Kurt Browning

Four world titles is a good swath at the top of the podium. The Olympics didn't work out for a couple of reasons, but it feels good when people say 'four world titles.'

Lee Bennett

Maguire answered. That was big. We just didn't make a couple of plays down the stretch. That's the way it goes.

Rick Taylor

Lynn had three crucial hits that led to runs and made a couple of defensive plays that ended Pleasant Hill rallies.

Lanny Wadkins

Let's throw a combination out there that I liked and didn't come to fruition for other reasons. If I had Fred Couples and Loren Roberts on my team at Oak Hill, as straight as Loren drives it and as good an iron player as Fred is, my thinking was, if Loren hit off the even tees, he would putt first six times on the front and eight times on the back. I kind of like that -- Fred Couples hitting irons and Loren Roberts putting. That's a helluva combination.

Charley Juris

Last year we had two or three stars ? a couple kids who dominated. This year we have an entire team of 'no stars.' It's really been a major team effort here.

Jon Tremayne

Many of these (outages) are one or two customers, and others are a couple hundred customers.

Frank Robinson

Second pitch. Line drive off the center-field fence. Missed hitting a home run by a couple of feet. Double.

Kathy Osborne

Last year was our first year. We went in just to have some fun and ended up winning.

Jodie Bernstein

Many retailers ended up looking more like Scrooge than Santa.

Andy Irvine

Scotland ended last season on a high and the team were playing with a smile on their faces,

Chuck Green

Meg ended up settling down. She mixed speeds and kept a good hitting team off balance.

Jawan Carter

My freshman year, we started four freshmen; sophomore year, we started four sophomores. I'm so happy we ended up with a state championship.

Judd Apatow

My first thought when 'Wedding Crashers' ended was, 'Oh, my God. We are so much dirtier than they are,'

Gary Davis

One of the things we look at is a sense of complacency where you take things for granted. He'd probably made that maneuver many, many times, and this time it ended in tragedy.

Tom Stoppard

One senses that all the Bolsheviks, even those who ended up as cold-blooded autocrats, had been on a journey from idealism to something else, and didn't notice - to mix periods - when the Rubicon was crossed.

John Steinbeck

One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter: "Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.

Chris Graves

Obviously, we're disappointed, but we've got to keep working. It's always tough to go on the road, but we'll be prepared. That's all you can do.

Dennis Prager

Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate.

Richard Shelby

I can tell you that at the end of the day, we're going to have to make some tough decisions.

Michael Spencer

From one to nine, they're all tough outs.

Ernie Goss

If we'd had a typical winter, it would have been a little tough for the retailers.

Sherlyn Lattimer

She was a tenacious, tough and strong-willed woman.

Ann Richards

She's always going to take on whatever is the toughest challenge.

Jeff Long

To us, Bo was just this lovable, great, hard-nosed tough coach,

Fred Couples

Tough day, long day. Teed off at 7 p.m. (6:45, actually). I don't think I've ever done that before.