Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's a little team. Here, everyone's interested in baseball and American football and many people didn't even know that a soccer match was being played today. So it's easy for them, because they aren't playing under any pressure. My mother, my grandmother or my great grandmother could play in a team like that.

It's a little more than I budgeted for, but I always said it's player specific. Based on what we did, I'm very satisfied.

It's all in good fun. There's familiarity in how you play. There will be conventional baseball on both ends of the scale.

Billy Donovan

It's all based on drama. Drama sells. Coaches have made money, coaches have gotten fired and players have been recognized for their achievements. I was part of Cinderella, but as much as the NCAA Tournament has propelled me and given me a lot of great moments, it's also provided a lot of hurt, pain, and suffering for me. It goes both ways.

It's all related to how recently you got your shipment. Retailers base prices on replacement costs.

It's all pretty much based on strength of schedule. Another thing you have to look at is all four of Pitt's losses have been on the road. In the new RPI formula, losing on the road is useful.

Jeffrey Loria

It's a killer. It's very disheartening to be in the situation we're in. But we've got no choice. We need to get this thing done, period -- one way or another. I'm not going to be the only one supporting this baseball team -- I mean carrying the team -- financially.

It's all about the nature of the sport. Baseball doesn't make money in college. There might be two or three baseball programs that break even.

It's all about momentum. Mountain Pointe is playing its best baseball right now. We know it and they know it.

It's all about market share. You can't have the cost base and keep losing market share year after year.

I took a set of the foundation and basement plans home and worked on the dining room table and came up with a figure of $400,000, ... Bids were received by Maas Brothers, and the lowest was more than three times my estimate.

David Eckstein

I told them baseball owed them nothing and wasn't a fair game. I emphasized what a privilege that it is to wear a uniform every day. I challenged them to do something to earn and deserve the right to wear a uniform. I warned them that if they didn't, they might not be wearing one.

Pat Burrell

I told you guys the other day that he is the catalyst. It seems like if he gets on base three times a night, he scores three times. He knows how important he is to our team. He's been great. So hopefully he will continue to get on base and take his walks and be J-Roll.

I told (Val) to come up here with a first base glove because what I'd like to do is get him playing once a week at first base and also some right and left field. I think it'll help his situation for the future to go to the big leagues as a possible first baseman. I'll try and help him out a little bit by moving him around.

It rained so hard I was standing on 2nd base jumping around puddles get in it.

It is with great pleasure that we welcome Konami as an official global partner of the inaugural World Baseball Classic. Konami has always been a strong supporter of baseball and it is only fitting that they be part of this historic global event.

It is understood that the highest-ranked man and woman, based on his or her four best results over a two-year period, will each earn a six-figure jackpot.

George Steinbrenner

It is unbelievable to me that the highest-paid team in baseball would start the season in such a deep funk.

It's tough to bring in a guy for his Major League debut with the bases loaded. But I figured everything will be downhill after that. Ollie wasn't throwing strikes, and I figured that was the best way to go at the time.

It suggests the trend has changed, because each week's estimate is based on the trends. This is clearly an important change, when taken with other news, particularly monthly payroll statistics. It suggests more good news is on the way.

It's very difficult when you start to understand you are facing a life-threatening situation. You don't know what's going happen. It goes beyond just wondering what's going to happen to your baseball career. You wonder how your entire life might change or if you're still going to be fortunate to have a life.

It's very difficult to try to make a stock market forecast based on an interest rate outlook because things change. We don't think you gain a whole lot of value by trying to make those type of predictions. Take a step back, get rid of a lot of noise, and focus on good businesses, good industries and not pay too much, you sleep a whole lot better and you've got a much greater probability of success.

It's very difficult to base plans on what someone might do with (a cell phone).

It's very common to find tourists that pick their travel destination based on where the brewery is, and actually travel from brewery to brewery.

Its usually based on patient preference, but the kind of services each hospital offers is also factored in,

Joey Harrington

It's not something you can rush into. I would expect him to do his homework and cover his bases and make sure everything's in line before he pulls the trigger on something because it's a pretty big decision.

It's not necessarily replacement of your loan cost. It's replacement based on the value of your automobile.

It's not nearly as hard as it was 10 or even five years ago -- certainly not as hard as it was 100 years ago -- to either replicate your data or get your whole infrastructure out of the area. That's our first recommendation in all cases -- the bottom line is, if you have any hope of continuing your business, you have to base your operations outside of the city.

It's not looking very good. We made an offer based on the value we think he brings our club. We'd like to have him back at the right number -- not just at any number.

It's not like you're handing over the security function to the terminal operator. Some time ago, we looked at the major terminal operators in the country, based on the number of containers they handle, and it's interesting that, of the top 20 that show up on the list, of those, only a few of the major ones are American companies.

J. J. Johnson

It's not like fans will be sitting on their wallets if baseball players stop playing.

Saxby Chambliss

It's not that it was our time, but you can only go so long with so many bases and not be part of the process,

It's not terribly surprising to me that it might take quite a marketing effort to interest shippers beyond the traditional base of prairie grain,