Famous Quotes & Sayings

Justin Trudeau

I had to learn to dismiss people who would criticize me based on nothing, but I also had to learn not to believe the people who would compliment me and think I was great based on nothing. And that led me to have a very, very strong sense of myself and my strengths.

Chipper Jones

I'm very impressed. I've been wanting to go over to Japan for a long time to play on the All-Star tour. Everybody tells me they usually kick our butts when we go over there. So major league-caliber baseball is played over in Japan, too.

I'm very hopeful based on what I've seen in practice. The returning guys are stepping forward and the freshmen have jelled right in with the team. I have no fears that we can't do the job.

I never thought I could get a state title in baseball and somehow not get one in tennis. After the season ended, I thought, heck I'll end my baseball career with a state championship and go back to tennis and see if I can duplicate that.

I never really took to golf until I was in the sixth grade, because I was always playing baseball.

I'm very proud of him, ... For me, personally, he's certainly one of our very best stories and one of the best baseball stories we've had. I'm always impressed by guys who beat long odds. When you hear these stories of guys who were undrafted as juniors and have beaten the odds by long shots, I think they're great stories.

Chris Capuano

I'm very happy to have the win and the runs, but it was a tough game to pitch in the sense that there were a lot of long innings,

Dontrelle Willis

I'm very excited just to meet with him and talk baseball with him. He's an experienced winner and he comes from a great organization that knows how to win. I think he's going to put that personality and that feeling in our locker room, so it's a good choice.

I'm willing to pay people based on the value they create.

Derek King

I murdered my dad with an aluminum baseball bat and I set the house on fire from my dad's bedroom,

I'm training her to be a lead-off; her role is to get on base. I think she'll be able to steal some bases for us this year. Usually, you want to put one of your best fielders as shortstop, and it's usually not a ninth grader.

Gary Sheffield

I need to work myself into baseball shape. This is part of spring training. I still have to be careful. When the lights come on, I get focused.

In a terrible ironic twist, Bruce's immigration hearing, which was the hearing to determine whether in fact he should be deported based on the drug dealing conviction which Rowley had vacated, that hearing was scheduled two weeks before the trial.

Bill Gates

In a sense this is the end of an era. Microsoft and the original PC rose to prominence based on the MS-DOS product. And even as Windows came along, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, underneath MS-DOS was running there. Windows simply sat on top of MS-DOS. Well, so today it really is actually the end of the MS-DOS era. It's also, we would say, the end of the Windows 95 era.

ASAP Rocky

I'm the CEO of A$AP Worldwide. But as you can see, when I'm with them, everybody's equal. We don't really base our love off of finances or who's superior by financial status. We're all equal. When I'm with them, I'm letting them shine 'cause it's just like how it used to be. They still there. I'm just chilling out front.

John Armstrong

I'm not sure if other arrangements to buy zinc have already been made at this point. Generally, we buy products on contract for a length of time. The link of the contract is something that is based on the volatility of a particular product, and the price of zinc has been going up.

Ian Snell

I'm not the typical ballplayer. I don't drive a fancy car like a lot of guys. I don't get wrapped up in a lot of stuff. I just like to play baseball and win. That's what I care about. The other stuff is political stuff and I don't worry about it.

Carlos Lee

I'm happy to be here. I can only do so much, so it will take the whole team to (win the WBC). It's nice for baseball to see fans from different countries having the opportunity to see big league players together on one team.

I'm hoping based on the publicity they have been getting at least 40 percent turn out, but I don't know because it could be as low as 10 percent.

I'm hoping, based on public pressure, that he gets what he deserves.

I'm hopeful the fans come streaming back. It's time for the fans to step up to the plate and watch this exciting baseball club.

I'm honored to be coaching one of the premier baseball programs in the country.

I'm having a great time. It's obviously fun, but I don't think about baseball when I'm in bed. I think about how I'm able to breathe, how I'm able to sleep.

I like what he's doing, and I really like his work ethic. He has good baseball instincts and he's made a very good impression.

Barry Bonds

I'll be there. I'll be on the field and in the lineup on Opening Day. I think that's fair to say. Based on the way my right knee is feeling right now, I'll be ready.

David Wright

I'll be sitting in bed tonight thinking about the crowd and the energy today. That's what New York baseball is all about. This is what I want to experience in October.

Wayne Gretzky

I'll be honest with you, when I was 22, 23, 24, I never thought I'd be a coach in the NHL. But I'm excited about the challenge . . . . The last couple of weeks I've been following my son's baseball team around and I kind of got the itch to coach, as silly as that sounds.

Ryan Dempster

I like the idea of coming into the game with the bases loaded and two out in the eighth,

Harry Reid

In the fullness of time, he may well prove to be a fine Supreme Court justice. But 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.

Bud Selig

In the interest of security and out of a sense of deep mourning for the national tragedy that has occurred today, all major league baseball games for today have been canceled. My deepest sympathy and prayers go out to the families and victims of this horrendous series of events.

In the '20s and '30s, there were these musicals either set on college campuses or based on classical stories, so any of the Rodgers and Hart musicals certainly influenced me. I was definitely influenced by any of the 'Porgy' songs; I was influenced by 'American Pie.'

Fay Vincent

In some respects, it's the most damaging and difficult mess for baseball since the White Sox scandal in 1919.

In some oil fields there are hundreds or thousands of wells. The filtering allows them to focus on wells based on specific criteria, such as top producers.