Famous Quotes & Sayings

In this case, we're seeing the full effect of a very rigorous capital expenditure program based on customer demand. Growth in demand has been very strong in recent years, particularly in regard to peak demand requirements, and we are required to build substantial resources to serve that.

I just lost it. I saw the base line was open. It was just a fraction of an inch.

Dontrelle Willis

I just got off the phone with my mother and she was just yelling and screaming. I can't blame her. When your son is a 24-year-old millionaire, regardless of whether he's throwing a baseball or working for Donald Trump, it's a beautiful thing.

Jim DeMint

I hope Major League Baseball will take this important moment in baseball history to remove the taint upon the memory of Shoeless Joe and appropriately honor his outstanding baseball accomplishments,

Chone Figgins

I hit ninth the first month, and to be in the top 10 in runs scored, that's putting in a lot of work. There was a stretch where I went 1 for 30 and I was hitting ninth. That's why stolen bases are not even important. It's getting over so guys can get you in.

Jacque Jones

I hit down there every year. It's not a big deal. That's where I do my baseball stuff, that's where I do my weight lifting.

Alan Trammell

I hope I get to continue with this because there is some unfinished business. I'm going to be in baseball for many more years, whether it is here or not. I'm not done. I'm confident that I can do this.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I honestly feel that it would be best for the country to keep baseball going.

I have reluctantly concluded that this nominee has not satisfied the high burden that would justify my voting for his confirmation based on the current record.

I haven't seen any junior in the Midwest better than Clay. There's not one school in the country that wouldn't offer Clay a scholarship based on talent alone.

Jim Thome

I haven't had any setbacks at all. I'm excited. I called a couple of my buddies the other day and said, 'Man, I'm a baseball player again. Forget this rehab.' Everything's been good.

I haven't had a day off or a weekend off in a while. When football was over, I started basketball the next day. When basketball was over, I went straight into baseball and track. If I haven't had baseball practice, I've had track practice.

Pat Gillick

I have to get that (judgment) from the manager. Charlie is the type of manager who can evaluate players both mentally and physically. He isn't a guy who bases his opinion of a guy on how he did the day before.

Ralph Brown

I have to say I wasn't a huge fan of 'Star Wars', and I'm still not, really, but you have to acknowledge that there's a huge fan base for it, and these people are really sweet. You can't stereotype a 'Star Wars' fan.

Anthony Zerbe

I really love being onstage - that's kind of home base - but I love the camera, too. I love it all.

I probably haven't faced a lineup like them, but for me, I'm not scared of anybody. They're baseball players just like I am. They put their unis on the same way I do. It's about execution. Today I didn't execute. There's no other excuse for it.

I prefer to play first base or pitcher in college. Coach Dews runs a disciplined program, which impressed me. I know he can give me the tools I need to keep focused on bettering myself.

Adrian Gonzalez

I played in Double-A and it was the same level of baseball. There were players who were 30 and 35 years old. They knew the game and I learned a lot.

Alex Rodriguez

I played great baseball for a year, ... I played like a dog for five games.

Alex Rodriguez

I played great baseball all year, ... and I played like a dog the last five days.

In the thinking of most analysts, based on the fundamentals, there certainly is enough out there that the Fed should keep going, at least at this meeting.

Ravi Shankar

In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on certain sequences called ragas. When I perform live, 95% of the music is improvised: it never sounds the same twice.

Investors are conditioned to see politics-induced pricing weakness as a buying opportunity and our base case is that this time will prove no different. Still, this is shaping up as an exciting week.

Investors are being cautiously optimistic. There's a desire to put money back into the market based on a feeling that the worst of the economy may be behind us, ... However, there's not enough evidence of that.

Investing in our content, our customer experience and the success of our advertisers are our top priorities and further evidence of our long term strategy. What's extremely encouraging is that despite our free offering, our subscription revenue for this fantasy baseball season continues to show healthy growth. That is certainly a strong testament to the strength of our fantasy brand in the marketplace.

Bob Uecker

In those days, your contract for the next year was based on your innings pitched.

Intuit delivered another strong quarter and we're on track for another strong year. Our two largest businesses -- QuickBooks and TurboTax -- continued to perform very well as we successfully execute strategies to expand our customer base and solve more of our customers' needs.

In total, the case study registrants of whom we conducted investigations have collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments based on potentially fraudulent activities.

In too many games we played five or six innings of great baseball and then just cruised through the ninth. To be the dominant team we want to be we need to keep the pressure on our opponents every inning.

Inventories are at pretty comfortable levels based on a milder weather outlook, so the chances of a squeeze on supply this (northern) winter are receding.

Dick Cheney

I obviously, based on the past history, am a skeptic, ... Inspectors were in there for seven years and worked for seven years, and they did a lot of good work. But they didn't get everything.

In the second game, we got back into it because we were patient. We got people on base and came up with a timely hit here or there and got on top of it.

In the second game River Valley continued to make every play, robbing us of at least four base hits that would have changed the outcome of the game.