Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Bochy

We're not content with how it ended last year. The brand of ball we played, we'd like to improve on that. We've got a lot of work to do and things to cover this spring.

Donovan Nelson

Mandy has done a good job of being near the strike zone. She was throwing good enough pitches to get them to chase. Now, the detriment to us is when we have good opportunities to get outs, we hang a ball and they get a get a base hit and score two. That happened a couple of times tonight.

Mick Nunez

Mandeville is a good club and we didn't do what we needed to win the ball game. When you make errors and walk people, you aren't going to be successful. We let Mandeville stay around.

Fred Jones

Like I said earlier, I don't know how to explain it. It's something we have to turn around. We're putting ourselves behind the eight ball at the start of the game and it's not working for us. We have to figure out something.

Rex Grossman

Like I said after the game, he's going to catch the ball 99 out of 100 times. He'll pick his game up. He talked to me a little bit after the game and apologized and I just said, 'Don't worry about it, you're a great receiver.' I know he's going to make the play.

Kazeronnie Mak

Life is like a crystal ball of fortune.When it falls into pieces, the people try to grab it, someone grabs more, someone grabs less, someone grabs none. And how much have you grabbed yet ?

Ben Beakes

Luckily we have a supply of paper ballots we use for absentee voting. We were able to use the ballots as backup.

Doug Schauer

Luke (Enos) was going to get the ball and we were going to flatten out and create. We weren't going to take a shot until six seconds or less. Luke was going to make the play and he found John cutting.

Dale Murphy

Luke Appling helped me hit the ball on a line and not commit too early.

Andrew Walker

Luke's been an outstanding editor-in-chief. Throughout the year, he's always been greatly supportive to me.

Bobby Ross

Maggie was a wonderful girl. She will be greatly, greatly missed. Our players have handled this tragic loss well.

Pierre Lafontaine

One of the things that will be greatly missed is Mike's leadership within the national swim team,

Koichiro Matsuura

From prehistoric times until today, humanity's dealings with water have greatly influenced the sustainability of societies.

Larry King

If asked, I would be greatly honored to stay on,

Adam Ereli

We respect the Swiss justice system, but we would have greatly preferred that he be extradited here.

Tom Rath

The right choices over time greatly improve your odds of a long and healthy life.

Richard Wagenaar

It is gone. It is literally leveled in places. The power of the surge in this storm was greatly underestimated.

William Gilbert

He is an Englishman! / For he himself has said it, / And it's greatly to his credit, / That he is an Englishman!

Jurgen Klinsmann

Lehmann, Kahn and Hildebrand have all improved this season,

Nathan Watson

Last year we improved our times at every meet. As long as we can do that I will be pretty satisfied.

Terry Taylor

My life has improved so much. Frankly, I was very grateful.

Liu Jiangyong

China-Japan relationship deteriorated rather than improved over the year, and the deterioration trend will move on.

Derek Allen

I have improved a lot. I think it's strength, age, experience, and attitude. Plus, I'm really, really fit.

Jay Freese

She's improved a lot from last year and is in a new role. Autumn's inside this year instead of being out on the wing.

Joseph Nye

She has enormously improved the Wilson School, ... I've said to my successor, you've got to look over your back.

Simon van der Meer

Since then, I have worked with the group that commissioned and improved the ring and that is now preparing the construction of a second ring to increase the p stacking rate by an order of magnitude.

Andres Nocioni

I don't care. I want to work for the team, and that's it. I don't think about improved player, sixth man. If my teammates know I'm improved, that's enough.

John Philbrook

Man-hours, especially in the last two quarters, have jumped dramatically. Our position has always been to have enough work here so we don't have to travel to find work. Well, we are in that situation now.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Steve Reinprecht

Making the run that we made, we're going into the season with a different attitude. We want to win our last game, that's the mindset here.

Steve Hadley

made that request last week in his public statements very clearly.

Bobby Bowden

Leon's got a chance, ... Last week, he couldn't have done it.

Jim Bolla

(Losing on senior night) last year was kind of a bummer. But as least we got a win tonight and we've got a lot of people out there supporting them.

William Jefferson

Louisiana is last on the things that we ought to be first on, and first on the things we ought to be last on. We can do better than this,

Ron Zook

Lou turned up the wick considerably this year from last year.

Sullivan Sykes

Last year we had the potential, but we could never get over that hurdle. This year we play more as a team.

Jim Leyland

Makes a big difference. Players always make the difference.

Zeke Moreno

L.T. is fast. It takes 11 players to stop him. If 11 players are on the same page, then it's cool. But it's going to be very hard.

Calvin Branch

Scouting is something I'll be able to do later, but a player can play only so long.

Tim Purpura

Scouting and player development are the R&D of baseball,

Gary Wadler

One high-profile player tests positive, and look at the chaos. The problem, once again, is in the system.

Zydrunas Ilgauskas

Obviously, you can't replace a player like that.

Dick Vermeil

Now the players are going to say we don't need to practice on Thursday.

Paula Creamer

When the No. 1 player in the world is in the field, everything starts higher. It will be more known. But a win is a win at the end of the day.

Chris Davis

I'd like to credit my speed to my grandfather. But he was also a quiet player. He didn't talk much. He just went out there on the field and did his own thing.

Sam Cassell

I don't think he tipped it. I just shot it short. I shot it short over a 7-foot guy.

Elizabeth Bowen

Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.

Abraham Lincoln

If you have never failed you have never lived.

Grace Young

On short notice, we're not going to get a lot of people.

David Hamilton

She's his own daughter. He (his father) is in recovery, but at the very least, she has shortened his life.

Rachelle Lemieux

She?s been sick and she can only play in short spurts because she has trouble breathing.

Winston Churchill

Old expressions are the best, and short ones even better

Alan Woods

Short term, this is going to be bad. Long term, this may be good.

Tom Parker

I don't have a worry he'll be short of words.

Larry Morandi

Legislators are going to have a tough time striking that balance.

Chris Shelton

I'm striking out way too much. I'm not making any adjustments, either.

Scott Gomez

It's like striking out in baseball. It's a long way back to the bench.

Albert Schweitzer

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

Chris Evert

I wanted always to appear strong and in control . . . .Then the cookie began to crumble.

Charles Spurgeon

Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in His changeless love.

Charles Spurgeon

Show the world that your God is worth ten thousand worlds to you. Show rich men how rich you are in your poverty when the Lord God is your helper. Show the strong man how strong you are in your weakness when underneath you are the everlasting arms.

Charles Spurgeon

It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue with God; but those who prevail bring forth their reasons and their strong arguments

Charles Spurgeon

Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree. Look up to the cross, and you will kill sin, for the strength of Jesus' love will make you strong to put down your tendencies to sin.

Charles Perrault

To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a care/Makes for a very rare woman. So here our tale appears to show/How marriage deferred/Brings joy unheard/Nothing lost after a century or so. But others love with more ardor/And wed quickly out of passion/Whatever they do/I won’t deplore/Nor shall I preach a lesson.

Charles R. Swindoll

Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.

Diane Lane

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

Levance Fields

Of course, I'll be ready. I think I could have done it this year if Carl hadn't come back.

Cory Sarich

One year I had about 14 different returns. That's a lot of signatures when it comes time.

Jose Theodore

Obviously, this year I didn't play up to my level, but the year's not over yet.

Chris Evans

If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack.

Charles Spurgeon

If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be a full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.

Charles Spurgeon

In all of my years of service to my Lord, I have discovered a truth that has never failed and has never been compromised. That truth is that it is beyond the realm of possibilities that one has the ability to out-give God. Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.

Charles Spurgeon

Ten minutes praying is better than a year's murmuring.

Dick Van Dyke

All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We were like otters at play.

Dick Van Dyke

I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years.