Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Tageant

(Lee) threw his fastball well. They swung the bats well still but Lee did a good job.

Craig Biggio

Obviously, we had some pretty big bats last year. But this year's lineup isn't so bad, either.

Nathan Stevens

Obviously we had a lot of walks in those middle innings. I still look at five runs after two and you should still produce a few more. If I look at it from our team's perspective, we've got to put some more at bats together.

Larry Parrish

Obviously we're not swinging the bats good right now. And when you don't swing the bats good, it takes away from the energy of the club.

Jay Gibbons

I can't figure it out. I'm a little puzzled by it. It's pretty brutal how we're swinging the bats right now.

David Hawkins

The pitching was good tonight. It was just our bats went cold after the first inning.

Mary Pearl

One of the first ways of doing that is removing horseshoe bats from marketplaces and urban centers, ... Another important way is to get the horseshoe bat off the diet of human beings. Those two measures will go a long way to preventing another outbreak of SARS.

Ralph Carlson

I was telling our guys to get as few walks as possible because we wanted to swing the bats today.

Jim Patrick

If we get the bats going, I think everything else will fall into place.

Robert Kazinsky

'Star Wars' is a grand soap opera, and 'Star Trek' is about technology, they tried to explain the reality of it, as far-fetched as it might be. And that's why I've always liked the science behind the fiction.

Malorie Blackman

I wanted to have a body of work behind me before I wrote about racism.

Auggie Tantillo

Manipulated currency, non-performing loans made by Chinese state-run banks, intellectual property theft and other state-sponsored subsidies are the driving forces behind the job-destroying US trade deficit with China.

Andy Roberts

Like all the other territories, Jamaica is well behind in its preparation and there is a lot of work to be done.

Martin Brodeur

Letting in that first goal gave them some wind and it set it us back. On the next shift they scored another one to put us behind the 8-ball.

Jared Dudley

Making the Sweet 16 is a dream come true. Now we need to put it behind us and get ready for the next game.

Olusegun Obasanjo

Make no mistake. We face a very difficult job once we get the pomp behind us tomorrow,

Joel Edgerton

Making a movie like 'Felony' is hard work because you're really putting your own ideas on the screen. You can't hide behind some other person's script; you're saying, 'This is my brain, and I want you to know what I think'.'

Shaun Alexander

Mack Strong is the difference between us and the Philadelphia Eagles. We can get behind him and run all day.

Sherri Murrell

Mandy Close is a senior who's playing hard and knows how to win.

Anton Corbijn

Mandela is just the eternal man. You want that man to be around forever. It's the closest thing we have to God, I think. He's the father of mankind, almost.

Ivan Seidenberg

Like all companies, we are closely monitoring the economy, but what we see at this time indicates we can hit our target for full-year revenue growth,

Rich Brooks

Make no mistake about it -- it's a very serious competition and a close one.

Geoff Ogilvy

Luke is a great player. He's probably not overdue, but close to due.

Lucy Jones

Magnitude doesn't tell you damage. If it's not that big or not that close to people, it's not that bad.

Mike Patton

Let's just say we're closer musical friends now. A lot of these people are strangers to me. They were out of sight but very much in mind.

Jordan Reese

(Liberty's) always good competition to go against. It just sucks to coming so close and falling just a little short.

Les Brown

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Mike Gill

Like I always say, defense wins games. Today once we settled down, we made a lot of big plays.

Randy Rutledge

Luke's execution from the point, and his defense on Fischer was big. Luke has grown a lot this season.

Henry Bibby

Making a nice run doesn't mean anything. We didn't come out with any urgency, we didn't have any intensity and we didn't play any defense early on.

Kit Bond

Let me be clear: The National Guard is being fully active, not only in the work they are doing overseas but in their homeland defense activities.

Marcus Johnson

Lots of time we'd come down and make one call, then the defense would be something we didn't expect and we'd have to make another call. It gets tough but we just need to get better at it.

Jerry Moore

Last year was a struggle in a lot of ways, ... Defense really hurt us last year. We're used to some pretty tough defenses, and that wasn't the case.

Raheem Brock

Last year, the defense was young and inexperienced and the linebackers moved around in different positions. Everybody's used to playing where they're at and we're communicating well.

Dennis Fowler

Last year Terryville played us tight in two one-goal games. Their defense was just as tough today,

Lonnie Lawrence

Last year's game greatly motivated us. We knew our offense was good enough to win. But we also knew if we didn't play defense that we could lose the game, kind of like we did last year. We picked up the defense, picked up the intensity and took the win.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Bruce Sutter

My first year in the big leagues, I made $17,000. It was easy to go out and get another $17,000 relief pitcher. I never worried about innings or pitches. I just pitched.

Chad Cordero

I feel good, and I'm fine. My slider is working, and I have made two mistakes. That's about it. I'm going to get work and the innings in.

Felipe Alou

We had one six-run inning, but that was it. There wasn't a whole lot going on. We did the same thing last night; we scored all our runs in one inning. That being said, I'd like two or three innings of scoring.

Ron Gardenhire

We'll put him over there and have him play in some live games. If he can play seven to nine innings and he makes it through it, then he'll be playing by next Tuesday.

Greg McVey

We haven't had a lot of those innings all year. We know we can pitch and play solid defense, but when we can get innings like that, I like how this team looks.

Clint Hurdle

We've got different plans for Bonds. We're only going to pitch to him in innings that end in vowels.

Roger Durnwald

We have to get the players mentally ready to play seven innings every night.

Scott Linebrink

We've got to remember that we've got nine innings to play, and anything can happen, especially late in the game. To get those three runs, we had new life in the seventh inning.

Mike Scioscia

(Lackey) wasn't as sharp as we've seen him, ... He threw a lot of pitches early, and then he settled in. I thought he kept his composure, and he pitched. You look at the linescore and see seven scoreless innings and say he breezed, but it wasn't easy.

Phil Garner

make your pitches, (it) doesn't matter if we walk him.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

September 11 reinforced for me that whatever I'm writing about, it better be something that really matters to me because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. And for me it's stories about people in pain in New York.

Willie Revillame

Mr. Lim has always been there for me. No matter where I go, he's always there to support me.

Karl Dorrell

Matt Willis has had more practice time, and he's the one that will be in that position.

Bob Hansen

Matt was really in control. He played beautifully.

Barry Alvarez

Matt was probably 205 pounds when we recruited him,

Terry Olson

Matt was on the radar of a lot of schools, but things didn't start to pop until we got to the national tournament. That's where his stock went through the roof.

Robert Johnson

Matt was a wonderful athlete. There's things that he can do. ... You can't try to do what Matt did.

Todd Pridy

Matt was at his best, his stuff was very good, and he pounded in a lot of first strikes which is always impressive.

John Calipari

Let me tell you, we played well. Don't think we didn't play well, we're not much better than they.

Dan Dersam

Leah played exceptionally well in the first half. In the second half, they did everything but tie her shoes together to try and stop her.

Colin Cushman

Megan played great. We're a young team, so I'm not too surprised that we had some problems.

Michael Lehmann

My first movie, 'Heathers,' had played at the festival, so I had a little bit of a Sundance connection, but I didn't really know about the Labs.

Scott Rolen

No different than any other year. Played it the same as every year, no swings the first time out.

Jim Tressel

Obviously, it was a different scenario than we've played under recently.

Robert Price

We had been at Warehouse C-11 in Atlanta, where we had played before,

Rafael Nadal

For sure I didn't play 100 percent. But he played very good, too.

Roberto Luongo

From my standpoint it's disappointing. I think I could have played a little better.

Karl Dorrell

Make one or two more plays than they do.

Terry Teachout

One reason why Shakespeare's plays remain so popular is that they're now regularly presented in updated stagings with a contemporary flavor.

Bret Bielema

Obviously, you've seen him make plays out there. He's going to make some for them (opponents), unfortunately. We're trying to get those out of his system.

Jeff Banks

We had backups ready to go. We charted his plays to see how many times he touched the ball, worried about overusing him.

Alex Barashkoff

I don't think he was rattled. Big plays come with more experience. We're a young team and we need to get better.

Augie Garrido

If we play our best, and the other team plays its best, and they win, then congratulations to them.

Plaxico Burress

I make those plays every day in practice. I just didn't make it.

Jason Richardson

I'm a jumper, he's a passer. So there's going to be some spectacular plays going on.

Michele Jackson

She understands that if she plays well, this team plays well. Defensively, she buckled down and the rest of them followed.

Tori Kelly

My first competition, I guess, singing-wise, I was six years old, and there's a video of it, too. I'm just, like, stick straight. I'm not moving at all, and I'm just singing.

Carla Ponte

My disappointment - my big disappointment - is because six fugitives are still at large, most probably in Serbia, and that includes, of course, Mladic,

David Keith

From sixth grade on I was a real Pillsbury doughboy. Overweight, long hair, thick glasses.

Paula Abdul

I wish we could have more than six (guys).

Bob Eastwood

Sixty is just a number. I don't feel 60.

Jessie Pettit

Six times now, huh. That's not too bad.

Paul Johnson

I'd like to get one win, ... I'm not thinking about getting six wins.

Bethany Mota

I remember when I was in the sixth grade, my friends used to come over and we would give each other blindfolded makeovers, which turned out interestingly to say the least!

Chauncey Billups

We didn't play that great, but we got it done. Sixty wins, that sounds good.

Randy Bowen

We swung 'em a little better. We're still not where we need to be.

Mary Stazzone

She threw up all the meat, but we couldn't find the stick.

Adam Haluska

You don't really have much time to think about it. I didn't really look at the basket. Just kind of threw it up there in desperation.

Devan Downey

We didn't come to play, we got what we deserved. We threw it all over the gym. It wasn't one person. I wasn't there mentally.

Jeremiah Trotter

The ref said I threw a punch, but I didn't throw a punch,

Mary Murphy

We threw so much at her when she walked in the door. I think she's pretty prepped for the undertaking.

Rick Jackson

We threw it away and they went down and got a two-point lead.

Jeff Burton

I threw it away after the first week.

Mark Prior

I threw a lot in the first inning,

Yvette Girouard

I thought Dani was magnificent tonight. I thought she threw as well as she's thrown in a while.