Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Bagwell

There's no other situation this would be OK. A normal guy, that wasn't going to play. It fit for our situation at the time. It's not something I would advocate. But Roger Clemens is a gift from the baseball gods. Anything he does is a gift. ... Craig (Biggio) and I have never had a ring. Our best opportunity to get one was to have Roger around. He tends to his obligations, his kids. And it's not like the man comes in here and pitches five innings and gives up six every day.

There's no getting around it. We're at a point right now where we need to win a baseball game. There's no sugar-coating it. We've dug ourselves a deep hole.

There's no football practice tomorrow. So I'll be at baseball practice ? I think. I'm just running around everywhere.

There's more of a baseball culture that has developed in other countries. There are quite a few countries where the baseball culture is pretty well developed.

Justin Hawkins

There's no way that a fan of The Darkness, based on what we did on the last record, is not going to love this record even more than the first one.

Tomas Vokoun

There's no way of knowing before you get there. Everything else would be just words and not really based on any evidence. We'll all find out.

Mike Hargrove

There's nothing worse than loading the bases and scoring one run. Jose is still not a polished player, but he has a chance to become one.

There's nothing I can do. He came to third base with his head down.

The town loves baseball, that's a fact. We have a lot of youngsters that are dedicated to the team and the program.

Rhodri Morgan

The Tories? relationship with Wales is based on trust and understanding. We don?t trust them and they don?t understand us.

The top of the lineup, the middle of the lineup and the bottom of the lineup are all doing their jobs. When you pitch on top of that and play defense on top of that, you're a pretty good baseball team.

John Galbraith

The traveler to the United States will do well to prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.

The training we're constantly modifying is based on lessons learned,

John Griffith

The time is based on the sunrise, but we're kind of liberal about that. Sometimes it's based on media coverage.

The time for using language of threats is over, it's time for negotiation. We express our readiness for negotiations based on justice and a comprehensive compromise. We want to peacefully solve the problem.

Sathya Baba

Is the intention pure, selfless, and born out of love? Is it based on truth? Does it result in peace? If so, it is a right action.

I still doubt the sustainability of the equity momentum. However, we have now built a base that we will bounce off of, and that means 6,300 is definitely within sight.

I still don't think that the tech outlook is all that great. This rally is based on sentiment, not fundamentals.

I started to fall in love with the game of baseball when my dad gave me my first set of baseball cards, ... I kept the ones I recognized. The guys I didn't were the ones I put in the spokes of my bicycle with clothes pins.

I started out on my brother-in-law's team. He had a terrific team. He needed a sub in the summer when the guys went on vacation. Going from baseball to softball, I bent over the plate. I had never seen a riser like that under my chin. The whole team laughed at me.

Isn't it amazing, all this stuff down in a basement in Akron?

Judith Jamison

I smelled the same smells as a kid growing up in my little house in Philadelphia. My father used the basement as his craft shop. And when I smelled the wood and saw the shine of the stainless steel set, it brought a tear to my eye.

I spent nine months trying to convince him he was a baseball player.

Matthew Lawrence

When you make movies of based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.

When you lose a couple and you didn't play your best baseball and the runs aren't coming, sometimes you might be pressing a little bit. But I thought our guys were comfortable. They were taking their hacks up there, being aggressive.

Shoeless Joe Jackson

When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit.

Matt Holliday

What Todd went through was an aberration. He makes it easier for me and (Atkins) because he's on base every time we come up.

What this says is that the Democratic Party is not a fully functioning party. It means that it has lost its base and some sense of its direction. One of the things that's going on here is a lot of soul searching. . . . There are discussions of the old tribal politics being replaced by competence and performance politics.

Freddy Sanchez

We've received tremendous support from some of the greatest fans in baseball this week. They're excited, and we're excited to get the season started.

What good decision-makers do is really surprising. There is all that stuff, but they think about the one thing that is most important, and that's what they base their decision on.

What a story Henry is - going from third base to their starting rotation. He's just been unbelievable. He just doesn't walk people.

Vendors must protect their installed base before trying to increase share because unless customers are happy with the products, they are likely to change at the end of the contract.

Mitt Romney

Ultimately, legislation may need to be filed to provide an exemption based on religious principles.