Famous Quotes & Sayings

Craig Biggio

I don't care, who cares? You're up 3-1. Obviously, the old cliche, you keep getting guys out there, and sooner or later you're going to get some base hits. The biggest thing is we're up 3-1 right now. You don't care what you're average is with runners in scoring position.

I am happy with this team. They really are a great group of kids. They are a lot of fun to just be around and to coach. I am not sure what our team batting average is, but I know they are the type of guys that have one of the higher grade-point-averages.

Ben Folds

I'm definitely an anomaly, but I'm making things. They're selling, say, martinis, and I'm kind of making vintage Riesling. People aren't going to sit there very often, not your average public, and your average music-business monster is not going to take the time to notice the overtones and the undertones inside the flavor. They'd rather just have the martini.

We've suspended betting, the average bloke sitting at work has no idea Johns has been in Sydney seeing a specialist.

Richard Sherman

We've seen a lot of average college players turn into great NFL players. We've seen great college players turn into great NFL players. We've seen great college players turn into terrible NFL players.

We've scored under 200 in all of our matches. Last year we averaged 220. We're striking the ball really well. We need some work on our short game. We kind of lost our focus around the greens lately, but I think that will come back.

Celinda Lake

We should realize that the average family in America spends five minutes a week on politics.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

I'm just an average woman with average concerns.

Branford Marsalis

The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula.

Bruce Nash

It's very difficult to get your ideas to Hollywood if you're the average Joe or Jane. An agent wouldn't bother with you.

Bruce Lee

It's the law of averages: put in more, come out with more.

We have a print average of $15,337, so it looks like the phenomenon of last week's $40,221 print average (from just 23 runs) continues,

We used to have an average of 75 seniors on Fridays. Now we're up to an average of 100.

We shot a ton of free throws. We average about 55 percent from the line.

Walk-up (ticket sales) for the first (Stockton Thunder) hockey game was huge. We averaged 8,300 fans for Saturday hockey games, so I suspect we'll do that for football.

Georgette Mosbacher

I grew up in a one-parent family. I worked my way through college, I had very average grades and I was very average looking, but I've lived a remarkable life only because I believed I could.

Gene Weingarten

While it is true that many hep C victims became infected through blood transfusions or organ transplants or in other innocent ways, mine was contracted during my college years, when I showed as much care for my personal health as your average suicide bomber.

Edward Norton

I think a lot of people in their average day actually imagine two sides of a conversation at one point or another. I think that the mental trick of holding two sides of a conversation in your head is actually something that we all do.

Albert Camus

In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more or less easily to the fact that ours has never risen above the average.

Clay Shirky

Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.

Clayton Christensen

If you ask the average guy on the street to name five companies that have truly transformed themselves over the few decades, Hewlett-Packard would be on everybody's list. You'd also put on this list GE and Johnson & Johnson.

Clayton Christensen

One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, and fills 50 prescriptions per year.

The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast.

Daniel Kahneman

Divorced women, compared to married women, are less satisfied with their lives, which is not surprising. But they're actually more cheerful, when you look at the average mood they're in in the course of the day.

Daniel Kahneman

The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.

Don Kelly

Now we average 90 accidents a day and often it's as high as 100

Dale Murphy

God isn't really interested in our batting averages.

Dule Hill

I know I have a big, big head. Hats, a lot of times, do not fit me. What is the average head size? Maybe like 16 inches. From the center of my forehead around to other side might be a foot, give or take four inches.

Drew Houston

You become the average of the five people you hang out with.

Andy Warhol

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

Angela Bassett

Don't settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that's in us.

Anais Nin

I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits

Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs.