Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clint Hurdle

We want to see his command, we want him to utilize his pitches, ... We also want to see him use his two-seam fastball and sinkerball.

Scott Mathieson

When he hit that ball, it was a batting-practice fastball over the plate and he hit it on the screws. It went to the furthest part of the park.

Ned Yost

Tomo was very crisp today. He was sharp, he was throwing his fastball as hard as he has all year.

Mike Trapasso

Matt throws a plus slider, but the fastball is his foremost pitch.

Chris Moore

Usually, I like to come in with a straight fastball and take it from there. Sometimes, I'll work in my slider. Everything seemed to be working today, so it was real good.

Joe Blanton

The (pitch to Rivera) was a fastball in and that's something I need to work on.

Ron Gardenhire

Poise? I don't think we're talking about poise here. I think we're talking about a 97 mph fastball with a curveball from hell.

Francisco Liriano

I am still working on my fastball now, and that's really all I want to focus on. Just locating my fastball is my goal right now.

Bryan Brainer

My fastball was working today, but I was not throwing anything else for strikes.

C. S. Lewis

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

Chris Hamilton

We have sat down and done the figures, and the result is that there has been an increase of just under 10-per-cent on last year's sales. We're not up in purely money terms, just on ticket sales, but it's good news for the club.

David Bennett

We have to have a good week of practice. We've got to get back to fundamentals.

Craig Beesley

We have to go up there tomorrow and play good ball.

Mike Thomas

We have to get there, but we should be on our way (to the title game). There's other good teams up there, but we should have a good shot.

Jordan Leopold

We have to get off to a good start. It's one of those things of whoever wants it the most is going to end up getting it.

James Greer

We have to get better at getting through the full-court trap. We had been struggling with that, but we did a good job when we needed it.

Siv Meisingseth

We have normal traffic today and the prospects for tomorrow are good too.

Kay Runge

Whenever you have an urban library, there are parking issues. The good thing about our new location is the nearby ramps.

Josh Smith

When I've had to score, if they leave me open, I'm going to try to make them pay by hitting the jump shot like I did tonight.

Charlaine Harris

What had set the fae world off? I`d never seen one. Now you couldn`t throw a trowel without hitting a fairy.

Cameron Bennerman

We started hitting (the 3s) for one thing. If they go in, they count. They add.

Shawn Russell

We started hitting our outside shots. That opened things up on the inside.

Brandon Thomas

We're looking sharp right now. We're running our offense and hitting our shots.

Tim Duncan

We're hitting a stride - I don't know if it's THE stride. We go through lulls. It's about recovery. It's about making adjustments on the fly.

Steve High

We're hitting a stratosphere that's never been reached before in Orange County.

Kevin Deneen

We're hitting all our marks and all our expectations.

Dan Uggla

If you let your hitting bother your defense, you are not going to be very good.

Carole Bouquet

I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.

Carol Leifer

Stand-up comedy - I love this job, and I gotta tell you, folks - knock wood - it's been working. 'Cause I was one of those kind of people, even when I had a regular job, I couldn't even call in sick right. You know, I was like, 'Hello? Yeah, I can't come in today. I have scurvy.

Carol Moseley Braun

We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.

Carlos Ghosn

When you're C.E.O., you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job. And today, they are reunited.

Carlos Ghosn

Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.

C. S. Lewis

Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and ell pie. You want something to sober you down a bit. We're only saying it for your own good, Puddleglum.' That's what they say. Now a job like this --a journey up north just as winter's beginning looking for a prince that probably isn't there, by way of ruined city nobody's ever seen-- will be just the thing. If that doesn't steady a chap, I don't know what will.

Shannon Miller

We have to get jobs to support ourselves. We can't sit around for six months like it's vacation.

Dan Webster

We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. The less we spend, the more jobs we have the potential to create.

Agnes Macphail

Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.

Ashwin Sanghi

I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

Johnny Weir

Fashion is something that I want to be involved with for a long time, and I want to show that I can give people what they want while still keeping my pizzazz and my razzle-dazzle.

Bill Coleman

We are a very safe community. His primary responsibility is keeping us safe.

Daniel Ellsberg

But it is important always to keep in mind that the danger of harming humans is not connected only or even mainly with telling secrets, there can be great danger in keeping secrets.

Jeremih

When I look for a woman, I look for one that's real - that's keeping it 100. I rather someone know that they're sexy and not show it.

Stuart Backerman

There is no merit to the allegations, Michael is innocent. This is in keeping with what we've said all along.

Ted Carpenter

What we're seeing is the reflection of two developments -- first of all, the U.S. military being more and more into a force-protection mode, keeping its military personnel as unexposed as possible to fighting.

Barry Erwin

She is talking about keeping those cuts. It's a smaller state financially and population-wise for some time.

C. S. Lewis

Being nice doesn’t make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.

C. S. Lewis

Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? WEll, I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are, no doubt, my worst moments)...

C. S. Lewis

It would be nice and fairly nearly true, to say that 'from that time forth, Eustace was a different boy.' To be strictly accurate, he began to be a different boy. He had relapses. There were still many days when he could be very tiresome. But most of those I shall not notice. The cure had begun.

George Shelley

We have sailboats, birds, pixies. They're decorative. They're a nicer look for your bottles.

Mike Jensen

Whenever you have something like that on your body, you just feel a little irregular. It'll be nice to feel regular.

Jeff Thompson

When everyone is working in their studios you don't really see what they are working on. So it's nice to see everything come together like this.

Curt Schilling

When you're young, you tend to do things like that because you want people to think you're a nice guy. At some point, I realized that I'm doing this not because I want people to think I'm a nice guy. I'm doing this because I think it's the right thing to do.

Nancy Norris

We want no stacks of paper, no boxes. We want all of our offices to have a nice crisp look.

Agnes Varda

It's nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It's somewhere, but it's sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.

Derek Jeter

Moose, don't tell me you're throwing all your pitches yet, are you?

Derek Lowe

This time of year, you don't throw a lot of pitches so it won't be a problem.

Lou Piniella

He's a lot responsible for the way we've played. To me, he's pitching with a lot more confidence. You can see it out there. But that's what winning does for you. You get aggressive, you make better pitches and you make better choices.

Jack Leggett

His was up around 95 pitches and that's all he is going to go. We have to be able to stop it there.

Bobby Cox

He was just dynamite. Had all three pitches working.

Dick Adams

He has plenty of other pitches to work with.

Jason Varitek

He executed his pitches real well. If he pitches like that, he's going to win a lot of games.

Ralph Carlson

He must have fouled off 24 pitches in a row before he got that hit.

Jeff Blauser

He could throw two pitches for strikes pretty much whenever he wanted. When you can do that, you'll be pretty effective.

Dan Coffey

We settled down on defense. We just tried to stop them one (possession) at a time.

Tove Lo

I can't live just being content. I can't have a routine. I can't be settled because then I just get really frustrated.

Michael Scheuer

But at the end of the day, we settled for the worst possibility -- he was there and we didn't do anything.

Josh Daniel

Now that everything is settled down, I'm really considering going out.

Mayme Olson

We all just settled here and stayed here.

Larry Brown

We kind of got healthy. That was a key. Since we got healthy, we've settled on a rotation. That's been helpful.

Jason Bumblis

We had some jitters in the first quarter. But we settled down. We always win with our defense.

Howard Rheingold

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

Martin Jol

I always like to play with a settled team. If you see my teams I always play with the same if they are fit,

Carl Erskine

I've had pretty good success with Stan (Musial) by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third.

Corin Tucker

When in doubt, I always go vintage! Get a ruffled dress and throw a t-shirt over it.

Andre Johnson

We know we're not out there trying to throw games. If we were really trying to lose, how did we win this one?

Al Oerter

I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

Brian Bannister

When you throw strikes, they are going to get hits.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

Keegan Bradley

When I throw a softball, there's no time to think about the motion of my arm. I just look at the first baseman's glove and react.

Russian Proverb

What the young one begs for, the grown-up throws away

Tara Garrett

She (Ronk) is doing the job. She's throwing hard.