Famous Quotes & Sayings

Buddy Gouldsmith

Part of the reason that we scheduled them ... was to excite people in our community about college baseball. I think people are excited about it, and I think we've got a chance to have a great crowd and gain a lot of community support.

Bruce Bochy

Our objective is to get to the playoffs and play good baseball. We'll figure that out once that happens.

Brian Coleman

Our media strategy was twofold: target both the college & minor league baseball fan through strategic baseball partnerships with Rawlings, Easton etc; as well, we invested significantly behind online media to target the baseball gamer and baseball fan.

Frederich Cepeda

Our message is already out there from our international competitions. I think we showed people that baseball is spoken here, baseball and nothing else.

Jamey Wright

People need to recognize that this is one of the greatest players, if not the greatest baseball player ever. We should cherish the last year or two years or 20 days we have him. I enjoy watching him play.

Larry Hartzell

Stadiums started to paint seats red, white and blue. And instead of advertisements on the outfield walls, there were now recruitment signs for the service. You couldn't help but notice all of the patriotism around the country at baseball games.

Brian Sabean

Spring training was a long time ago. He could be starting from ground zero as far as the baseball activities.

Josh Beckett

Spring Training is just a fun time. I really don't know how to explain it. Everyone's got new jokes and everyone is having fun with each other. You get to have your cake and eat it, too. You get to have a life. During the regular season, you don't because it's all day long -- baseball is at the end of the day. But here it's at the beginning of the day and then, with me, I'm going to go out and play golf every day for the next six weeks.

Conor Jackson

Spring Training doesn't go on the back of your baseball card, but this is one of my plans for the year ... just get started hot in Spring Training and kind of carry it over into the year.

Anne Patterson

Relay for Life is an opportunity for residents to come together as a community to support community members who have survived cancer, who are fighting cancer, and to remember those who lost their battle with cancer.

Kiran More

Patel has been keeping well and also chipping in with the bat in recent domestic matches so we decided to pick him.

Tommy Haas

Pavel is a very good player, ... We have had some close battles in the past.

Bill Lee

Part of the fun is watching kids take batting practice and run around the field and create memories.

Bobby Pierce

Our offense has really come around. We're swinging the bats well and getting good at-bats. When we get runs on, we're driving them in.

Howard Thompson

Our office is in pretty good shape, but the building itself had some damage. We're setting up a temporary location in Baton Rouge.

Richard Moore

Our offensive line did an outstanding job tonight. I thought if we would win the battle up front we would win the game. When your tailbacks are averaging over 12 yards a carry, that says a lot about the big boys up front.

Phil Summers

Our Level 7 team was battling some minor injuries going into this meet. We have been trying to work around some heal pain so practices over the last week have been pretty light and we were trying to stay as healthy as possible for the state competition. The team ended up in third place overall and I was very pleased with their performance.

Thomas Schaaf

Our legs were tired tonight. Everyone is talking about the things we can win, but we had to battle hard tonight.

Jack Schweers

Regardless of who we're playing, we want to play as good as we can this time of year. We had a good practice (Monday), and we hope to be at our best (in the sectional).

Paul Bush

Regardless of whether you're looking at grapes, apples, cherries or any kind of fruit, you'll get the best color around here.

Rick Barnes

Regardless of what people are saying, N.C. State has not offered me the job. Texas is one of the best jobs in the country, and I'm happy here.

Kevin Marsh

Regardless of how I played, this was the best week of my life. It would have been the best week of my life if I had finished up on Wednesday, really. Being here for the first time you just want to soak up the experience as much as you can. But it also makes you hungry to get back, and prove that you really do belong.

Gloria Estefan

Regardless of culture or language, they really enjoy the album. And that to me, is the best thing.

Laurieann Gibson

Recently, Lady Gaga was motivated to take the helm of the creative direction of her career and as such I decided to step away. I am extremely proud of her, and in stepping away I wish her all the best.

Jim Shannon

Rebounding and defense were big keys for us. They're much bigger than us, but we more than held our own on the boards. And we got after them on defense. It was our best defensive game of the year.

Bob Myers

Rebecca and Christina are probably two of the best girls in the state; there's a very good chance they'll place in the top five at states. Those girls are just great leaders. I think we're going to win it all. The girls we have are good, they have two great leaders to follow.

David Pottruck

Recent trading volumes are propelling the company to its best quarter ever in terms of revenues and profits.

Carla Peterson

Rebecca wears her heart on her face. She has been working on that skill for awhile. She has competed with it before. Everything came together for her with that.

Deon Thompson

Reggie really sparked us off the bench. He came in with his head focused on helping us win this game.

George H. W. Bush

President Bush, testing the mic at the GOP convention:'Four score and seven years ago. We have come here to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place. ... My fellow members of the press corps, especially the camera man, tax relief is on the way ... don't spend it all in one place.'

H. Hart

Our players left everything on the field. When they came off the field, they were spent. I was watching them come through the tunnel going to the locker room. I just really hurt for them because the effort was just terrific. It was like two heavyweight fighters through the overtimes refusing to go down.

Ken Stringfellow

Our relationship, musically and friendship-wise, came to a halt for a couple of years, ... Slowly those doors opened again, and we had an opportunity to do some shows in Spain and took the chance to experiment over the course of a year or so. I spent some time repairing my friendship with Jon, and then we were probably open to anything at that point.

Eve

Originally, after 'Tambourine' came out, another record was supposed to come out, but I had issues with my record label at the time, which was Interscope. We couldn't agree on a record, so that took some time. I had to leave them and find a new label.

Joe Kuhn

Parker kept us in the game prior to halftime. He came out and hit a couple of big 3s for us during the first half. We might have been out of it early were it not for Dustin.

Barry Trotz

Parker came over the glass, and your first reaction is one of disbelief. Witt turns around, and his first reaction is to swing back. I don't like that trade-off. ... Parker is a marginal player for San Jose, and Witt is really starting to do some good things for us.

Doug Scheidt

Park did a great job. They came out really ready to play and I thought coach (Josh Wolf) did a really good job of having them just enough fired up, but just enough under control and calm. I thought they exhibited that in the game, and we didn't.

DeLoss Dodds

Regardless, we are proud of our student-athletes, coaches and support staff who have worked at meeting the standards, but we are not satisfied with some of our numbers.

Judy Samaha

People know what I would do if that ever happened here. I have a frank conversation with my coaches about matters of sexual harassment. They know where I stand.

Larry Conley

Sure, there were times when I hated the man but like all great coaches he was a great teacher. He would settle for nothing less than our very best. That's what a coach should do.

Matt Hasselbeck

Some of those people are former players here. Some are coaches that have been around or people in the building. Or maybe it's just some of the people from Seattle who have followed the team since 1976. It would mean a great deal to them.

Mike Cox

Some kids are really good students in high school, but go where they like the coaches better, or like the facilities better. That's the trick question with the whole thing. What is that particular kid interested in? And what you find out, that's what you emphasize on that visit.

Kevin White

Our team has probably been the most resilient team in the history of college basketball. They've competed every night -- the players and coaches deserve the credit for that.

Shaun Heshka

Our team excels in the playoffs. A lot of it has to do with preparation; the coaches put in countless hours in on video. And then it comes down to detail and discipline.

Tim Curley

Our focus is 100 percent on this season ... I hope he coaches for a long time.

Herb Kohl

Our goal is obviously to get to the playoffs, but I hope we'll be more than that. I hope we get to the playoffs with a good seed, and we can win a round, maybe two rounds. In my mind, we're not a team that will be satisfied to be 41-41 or 40-42. We can do better. I think the guys feel that way, and I know the coaches feel that way.

Joe Lunardi

Recent history suggests they're in. When you win the championship of a top-10 RPI conference like the Mountain West, you're in.

Matt Kuk

Our players have their sights set on winning our conference this year. Last year, we were around a .500 team, so we're definitely looking to improve, because we know we can do better than that.

Rod Gorman

Our regular season conference schedule prepares us for the post-season. To come out of our district was rewarding, for sure.

Flip Saunders

Part of it is teams that were not very good have gotten better, which makes for a much more competitive conference. What developed for a few years in the Western Conference has now come back to the East, where there aren't really any gimme games.

Pascal Lamy

Some of you will have read, or perhaps written, stories about a Plan B to be implemented in the event that the Hong Kong ministerial conference falls short of our objectives.

John Hendricks

Somehow, they have become our conference rival, and we're opening the season with them, so I'm expecting a good, hard-fought game.

Tracy Smith

Our preparation and focus is to get ready for the Big Ten. Our record is 0-0 in the conference and that's our mentality right now.

Lonny Sargent

Our plan was to get as tough of schedule as we could in the spring, so that way when we played our conference we'd be prepared, and I think we have been able to do that.

Mike Ferda

Our plan is to get ourselves ready for the conference schedule with these early games.

Bill Clinton

Recovery is going to take years. Fifty thousand people are still living in tents. I hope you will think of them.

Mark Twain

Spirit has fifty times the strength and staying-power of brawn and muscle

James Hoffa

The 40-hour work week is under attack. The right to organize is under attack. We are fighting for retirement security. Fifty million Americans are without health care. And real wages are falling,

Stephen Colbert

I started as a straight actor. I'd go onstage, and I'd think, 'Wow, this is the only thing I want to work really hard at. I will rehearse fifty times on a single scene; I don't care - I'll do it again.'

Eroll Skyers

He's a shadow of himself. His speech is slurred. He lost fifty pounds. He was found hanging in his cell. He was found seriously hurt and hanging.

Frank Johnson

Forty-five thousand seats is not enough. Fifty thousand to 52,000 would be enough for a New York stadium.

Benito Mussolini

For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to fifty thousand votes

David Bowie

You know, I don't feel fifty. I feel not a day over forty-nine. It's incredible. I'm bouncy, I feel bouncy.

Chuck Palahniuk

In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to serve the purpose of the line that's implied before it and the line that's implied after it. Maybe five lines have to do the work of fifty lines.

Eric Dubin

Regardless of what she did for a living, Bonny loved her kids and her kids loved her,

Tony Arntson

Really what we are focussed on is getting better each week. The kids keep competing.

Joan Chen

Relatively speaking, I was a lot more naive than kids today.

Craig Pippen

Our players have stayed positive even though we haven't come up with some wins. There's been some negativity surrounding our program, and the kids haven't listened to it.

Mark Douglass

Our rebounding killed us. In all of our losses rebounding has been an issue. We must become a better rebounding team. We need kids to step up.

Kendy Hinkel

Parents will see differences in the way kids are talking about what they learn.

Jim Wiscombe

Part of it was fatigue. We didn't sub a lot and kids got tired. We didn't make plays we normally make.

Billy Donovan

Part of it is youthfulness, but the one thing about the kids is that they're in every game.

Bob Williams

Part of this river is the Native Americans and the people we took it from. These kids never had that as part of their experience, so why not throw that in?

Tim Dougherty

I was able to scout them and we understood what they were doing.

Golden Bears

When I look at Section 3's preseason scouting report, it's as if Henninger doesn't go 13-0 and win a state championship, it'll be pretty much a down year,

Iain Dowie

We need as many youth team scouts as possible.

Phil Garner

You just have to trust your scouts in that regard.

Phil Garner

They did it all the way up and down the lineup. That's what was different from the scouting reports.

Lara Gray

I don't know how that happens. Other teams will scout us and they'll try to take something away and we'll have an answer.

Michael Wilbon

He's the one all the scouts want to see right now. Everyone is talking about this guy.

Tony Rasmus

The more scouts that are here, the better he pitches.

Ron Fussell

There must have been 40 to 45 scouts there. It was amazing.

Italian Proverb

It is better to wear out one's shoes than one's sheets

Michael Allen

We put up sheets here so they can have their privacy,

Jeff Davidson

When plywood starts to go up to $23 a sheet ... that's a lot of dollars.

Debra Moore

We have the sheets where you can see on each side of her where it spilled over. The sheets were a maroon color, so it's real obvious.

Sandra Dee

I used to sign vouchers and sign-out sheets with 'Alexandra Dee.' Somehow it stuck.

Roger McNamee

They started out in a world of spread sheets and word processors,

Jimmy Hoffa

We never had any silk sheets in our family...

Ryan Murphy

I love crispy, cool sheets.

Scott Weiland

I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.

Berkeley Breathed

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

Blaise Pascal

I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.

Camila Alves

I feel vulnerable in a good way. When I talk about my family, I usually have happy tears.

Carroll Quigley

It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it.

Dennis Eckersley

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears

Ben Harper

The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules.

Aleister Crowley

I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.

Alex Garland

Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in a riot was something I pursued with a truly obsessive zeal, along with being tear-gassed and hearing gunshots fired in anger.

Aberjhani

Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.