Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Delgado

I'm blessed with health and energy and passion for the game of baseball, and also to help children.

Carlos Delgado

I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist.

Carlos Beltran

Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's.

Carlos Beltran

I used to think it would be neat to play my whole career with one team. But as a baseball player you want to come to the ballpark every day knowing you have a chance to win and that the games mean something.

Carlos Beltran

When I was in Kansas City everything was going well for me. My marriage was good and I was very successful in baseball but something was missing in my life. That something was Christ. Every human being is born with a little defect in his heart. That defect is a hole in the heart that can only be filled by Jesus Christ.

Carl Everett

As long as I'm around playing baseball, it doesn't matter where I am, as long as it's not with the Yankees.

Carl Crawford

This is totally unexpected. I thought I'd be in the NBA or the NFL. I never thought baseball. It's kind of like a surprise. I'm happy it happened.

Ernie Whitt

Whenever you can beat a powerhouse like the USA, it's a real feather for baseball in Canada's history.

Ernie Whitt

Whenever you can beat a powerhouse like the U.S.A. it's a feather in Baseball Canada's history. We can be happy right now, but we still have a task at hand and after an hour or two, we'll focus in on Mexico.

Bob Lennon

We have a solid five and some good competition for those sixth and seventh spots.

Mark Dunkerley

We have no problem with competition. We are happy to take on competitors. But it's a different story when you are playing poker with somebody who's already seen your cards.

Shi Yinhong

We have never before seen so much economic competition, and we have never seen American officials at such senior levels express concern about China's military buildup,

Jacques Herzog

We wanted to win this competition because we are huge soccer fans and because we knew that there are a few things that haven't been done, like the use of light and the use of color,

Paul Buck

We have pretty good competition between about 10 guys,

Jack Foley

The process is working, but we still have to judiciously select our new markets and the ones where we expand. It's a matter of timing and restraint to let the major competition get out of the marketplace.

Taylor Lautner

I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.

Dusty Baker

Walker is probably the front-runner for that position. But he knows he has some competition for that job.

Jim McNerney

Ultimately the final contract remained within the requirements of our No. 1 negotiating principle, which is enhancing our competitiveness,

Joy Bacon

We were arrogant, we thought we were safe because we had our production contracts with the big studios. Now we have to look at new ways to grow.

Sharon Shinn

I hadn't thought specifically about doing graphic novels until a couple of my friends got contracts for them. Then I started picturing how various of my stories or poems would work in an illustrated format and thinking how cool that would be.

Don Howe

The others had contracts that were up during the course of the year.

Ken Fields

We have signed contracts with several counties and that's a step that's required.

Leigh Steinberg

The Redskins have done an excellent job of restructuring a number of contracts in anticipation of a deal (on the agreement) not being consummated.

Jim Caswell

One of the reasons that they feel like they can reduce the exclusive-use contracts . . . is that they've got higher-speed, more mobile and larger-capacity payloads in the contract stream now.

Sam Reed

More than half the states that will miss the voting-equipment deadline will have signed contracts with vendors.

William Brownfield

obligation to respect the contracts that it has already signed and voluntarily entered into.

Jason Varitek

Given all the people's contracts that are up, we've got to get somebody in there. We've got to find a way to right the ship. And we've got to start from the top down.

Ray Allen

We have to focus on the next (few) games before the deadline. Our production is ultimately going to decide what decision we need to or don't need to make.

M.V. Govindan

We have no problem of funds because we have raised these from various banks. We have now decided to enlist new members. By the time we are ready to open, we would have a membership of more than 10,000 people, each of whom will have paid a fee of Rs.500.

Darren Pang

The reality is that Wayne doesn't like to start something and not finish. My guess is that he's the kind of guy who will think about things long and hard, and then he'll decide to return.

Charles Stross

The real challenge in this line of work is being able to weed the productive ones from the chaff, to decide which you're going to spend the next six to nine months turning into something that people will pay for.

Ann Powell

When I decided to sell it, it was just to get the money to do all the things that I've done,

Rusty Wallace

When I decided to retire, I decided I couldn't stand it if I went out a loser,

Kelly Preston

When I decided to resume acting, I had become Mrs. Travolta in many people's eyes so I had to prove myself all over again.

Estella Warren

When I decided to go to L.A. I said I was going to quit modelling and just go and see how I do. In the first two weeks I got three movies. I was so excited I had all my furniture shipped out from New York.

Alfredo Palacio

The people of Ecuador today have decided to save the republic, a republic of hope, in whose streets and green fields should flower dignity, hope, equality and happiness.

John Scalzi

When I'm writing a novel or doing other serious writing work, I do it on a schedule that dictates writing either 2,000 words a day or writing until noon. After I hit whichever mark comes first, then I can give my attention to everything else I have to do.

Thomas Jane

It's kind of true that they just start making the same movie over and over again. It's also true that the times dictate what kind of movies get made and what kind are not. So I'm always looking for something that's a little fresh and something that I haven't seen before.

Michael Barrett

Where I hit in the lineup shouldn't dictate my performance. It has no correlation. I just have to get good pitches to hit.

Ryan Holmes

Workflow and usability are not afterthoughts; they impact the core of any project and dictate how it should be engineered.

Steve Simmons

We'd like to be in a position to utilize our bench. But the game will dictate that.

David Yalof

What history dictates is even relatively weak presidents have often gone for home runs with nominees,

Kami Roeder

Mount Vernon is a good team and their record really doesn't dictate or portray what they're all about.

Willie Randolph

We're going to let Pedro pretty much dictate when he's ready to get on the mound or do whatever he wants to do. We're going to let him take his time. He's a veteran. He knows what he needs to do. We don't need to put any schedules on him because that can always change.

Kyrsten Sinema

I don't think Arizonans are interested in having the Mormon religion dictate public policy to them.

Tom Bissell

I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.

Bret Easton Ellis

...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.

Byron Katie

Everything happens for me, not to me.

Bryan Ferry

I can never predict what's going to happen.

Ed Koch

It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

Elizabeth Mitchell

I was a complete, total nerd... I loved the idea that the underdog wins more often than not. And I don't know if that happens in life. But I want it to.

Eckhart Tolle

True change happens within not without

Ashley Smith

You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.

Brian Urlacher

I see things as they happen pretty quick, and I just go hit it.

C. S. Lewis

Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy’s (God’s) ground…He [God] made the pleasure: all our research so far has not enabled us to produce one. All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy [God] has produced, at at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He [God] has forbidden.

Alan Russell

There are very few things you can really do [to promote] healthy aging ... and none of these things include an insurance system or a legal system. All those things do is change who pays.

Charles de Lint

Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.

Charles Dickens

The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy; walk and be healthy. The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose.

Charles Dickens

Walk and be Happy, Walk and be Healthy...

Lawrence Frank

We're just trying to get healthy so that whoever our first-round opponent is we're ready to roll.

Diane von Furstenberg

It's more important to be healthy and of good spirit than it is to be thin, just as it's more important to be an attractive woman than a fashionable one.

David Agus

Keep the soil healthy and the bad seed won't grow.

David Suzuki

We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food. Many have no nutritive value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies.

Bruce Steinbecker

We have to have a short memory and be able to come back ready to play (today). We have to learn from our mistakes, and hopefully we'll get it fixed.

Sam Worthington

When I do my job, I dive into these characters and try to flush something out of myself into these characters, and hopefully that translates well.

Roger Ashby

We know we have to improve significantly on the Kettering performance. But hopefully that was a one off. It'll be tough up there but by no means impossible.

Jeremy Clarkson

I think people who watch 'Top Gear' think they're the only ones watching it, which I quite like, because it can hopefully last for a long time.

Chris Johnson

We struggled last weekend at Jacksonville. Hopefully this will jump-start us to have a strong end of the season.

Kenneth Branagh

I did not make this a long film for its own sake. I wanted to make an entertaining film and offer it out there for those who want to see it. If word of mouth suggests there is an audience out there, hopefully their cinema will show it.

Jim Nestor

With those two, with what they create, hopefully they're going to get a lot more scoring opportunities.

Tim Hearn

We're still short because, we've got a lot of refineries out so there's still some upward pressure there, but I think as things get back on stream hopefully we can get back to a better equilibrated pricing environment.

Matt Doherty

We've got be smarter and hopefully we'll be smarter when we get into league play.

Tom Hicks

We want to add an American League pennant... and to bring the World Series to Arlington.

Terry Francona

I think the outside world can learn a lot about how to act by watching a major league clubhouse. I don't think you want to do everything the same, but there's a lot of things I think people could learn from.

Brian Clough

Come and see my coaching certificates - they're called the European Cup and league championships,

Alan Moore

The announcement that there is a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen television series hasn't caused me to drastically alter my opinions. Now it seems they are recycling things that have already proven not to work.

Cassandra Peterson

My first ones were The Young Rascals. I made out with Dino Danelli, the drummer, in the alley behind the City Auditorium. Then I met Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels. This is all way, way back in the day. Later I got in the big leagues, like chasing around The Rolling Stones. And I hid in the bus for Paul Revere & The Raiders. And The Zombies.

Dennis Eckersley

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down

Gus Frerotte

Since Ricky has been in the league there has been a fascination,

Steven Jackson

let the league know the Rams are planning to do something this year.

Jim Cameron

She's in a league all of her own.

Robert Johnston

We have no plans for any major shakeup at this point,

Tim Wilson

We were at a crossroads, whether we were going to have to doze it in or do some major repairs.

Tariq Anwar

Bio-Technology is expected to play a major role in improving productivity.

Eliot Spitzer

While 2013 will not see a major national election, we can be sure that most Republicans will obstruct and some Democrats will appease.

Erin Morgenstern

I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffee shop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated.

Chick Hearn

You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.

Luc Ferrari

When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them.

Peper Long

We're still shooting for December, barring anything major or unforeseen.

Bertolt Brecht

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

Linda Duessel

The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.

Martin Broughton

The pleasing performance has been accompanied by the usual perplexing developments on the regulatory front,

Raymond Hack

We are proud of the performance of our team in the first leg.

Anthony Chukumba

When you strip everything out, the performance is pretty much as expected.

Brandon Sanderson

The best performances, are those that can be performed once.

Brian Tracy

How much we like ourselves governs our performance.

Bob Gunton

I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

Katsuhiko Kodama

Softbank's poor performance is especially weighing on sentiment.

H. Hunt

She stays cool. She pulls out the big performance on the big day.

Robert Armknecht

We are seeing a rotation back into some of the real companies, if you will.

Scot Shields

The starters are what make our team better. Our starting rotation is a lot better than what it was in 2002 -and you've got a right fielder who makes us a little better, too.

Alan Ackerman

As we end the quarter, there is some rotation into small stocks,

Stuart Freeman

It's not unusual to see a rotation back into some of these traditional stocks.

Justin Zwick

The rotation went out the window after the first quarter. They started going with whoever they wanted.

John Green

The thought of you being removed from the rotation is not funny to me.

Mary Wittenberg

We just want a shot in the rotation of an athlete's career.

Jason Varitek

It's big. Having him back in the rotation is big for this team.

Pieter Zeeman

The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour.

Mark Rey

We want everyone to be comfortable with every half-acre that stays on the list.

Richard Barber

But it stays within bounds, and that's an unusual system,

Isabel Allende

one of those unforgettable stories that stays with you for years.

Hasso Plattner

Fans don't like owners. They know they are somewhere - actually, in Germany, some owners are anonymous. Fans don't sympathize with owners, so ownership stays in the back.

Joe Frazier

He's good. I think he's still a young man. If he stays here and works with us on the basics, we'll make him better than good.

George Coleman

He waves and that's about it. He stays to himself.

Pete Jeffries

whatever was said in the room, stays in the room.

Gordon Strachan

Naka is the same in that he stays on to practice. I just want him to keep doing what he does.

Alice Lowe

I think when a couple stays together, it's because of compromises they've both made.