Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Frank Robinson

What am I going to say to him? How to handle himself? Swing a bat, be successful and drive some runs in tonight. That's how I want him to handle himself. Other than that, I don't feel I have to go in and talk to him about how to handle himself on a baseball field.

What Cuba has shown to the world is not only that we could play up to par with other major leaguers. We are not professional, we are amateur. We don't get paid for doing this. We deserve a high place in baseball because we do this with sacrifice, with human value and courage and sportsmanship, and because we give our utmost in order to come to the field and show what good baseball is all about.

Helen Brown

What Cosmo did was report on what was true out in the real world, but was never reported before. Some of the principles were based on 'Sex and the Single Girl,' which said that if you're single and 33, you don't have to go to the Grand Canyon and throw yourself in.

Abraham Maslow

What conditions of work, what kinds of work, what kinds of management, and what kinds of reward or pay will help human stature to grow healthy, to its fuller and fullest stature ? Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of hum

Michael Barrett

What can I say? I go up to hit there and I still can't believe that I'm in this situation. Bases loaded, Cubs-Cardinals, Wrigley Field. I can't believe it.

What the WGA has endorsed is not an immigration plan 'based in reality,' but a surrender plan based on capitulation to cheap labor interests. What is needed, and what the American public is demanding, is a true enforcement plan that is based in reality and the political will to enforce this nation's laws.

We tend to make a bigger issue out of opening day.

We spent about half of each practice this week working on the power play. We anticipated having a lot of power plays based on how they played us last time.

Through the smoke I could see that it was in an isolated part of the basement in a small room.

We try one-to-one method based on the capability of each student.

We talked about how you can leave no doubt at the end of the game. We had two batters today that I was really disappointed in how we pitched. One of them was the first inning, and then, the golden rule of baseball you don't walk the tying run on base and bring the winning run to the plate. We did that, but other than that we did extremely well.

Tommy John

We talked about baseball and how it has changed in the minor leagues. Since I played, the change is just phenomenal. The growth in minor league baseball is outstanding.

We just rewrote a script based on John Grisham's 'The Runaway Jury' starring John Cusack and Gene Hackman,

We just need to find a market in Canada that works. We know we have a tremendous fan base up there.

We just love baseball. We cheer when the other team makes a great play. We don't care. In St. Louis, it's all about baseball. And when it's over for the year, now that's something to be sad about.

We just wanted to go up there and do what we needed to do to win the game. We hit the ball. Eight hits aren't a reflection of how hard we hit the ball. The wind took away four or five extra base hits.

John Abizaid

there's actually some indication, based on intelligence information that we have, that ammo is starting to be difficult for them to obtain in certain areas.

There's something about playing the game of baseball that lights up a youngster's eyes but for children facing mental and physical challenges, that opportunity can often be a difficult first test. The Miracle League gives these children the opportunity to get out in the sunshine and enjoy the game of baseball in its purest form.

George H. W. Bush

The residents of Louisiana will work based on a plan similar to the Marshall for the reconstruction of the State. All together we will put the State back on its feet,

There's no reason to come back. It wouldn't help me get to the next level if I came back. It can only hurt me. I made the decision based on that. This has been my dream, and now I have the opportunity.

There's no real justification for public financing of stadiums. They don't generate economic benefits. They don't help revitalize neighborhoods. The economic research on this is pretty solid. The only studies that show positive effects are the ones commissioned by baseball and people who want a stadium built.

There's no race. The base voters are the only ones that are going to turn out, and he's got them all locked up.

There's no question baseball disrupts the launches of entertainment schedules, ... And beyond ratings, the most important issue for baseball is whether there's a perceived competitor to Fox. But right now I don't see a strong competitor to Fox.

There's no possible way I'd be ready to pitch (in the World Baseball Classic). Trust me, I'd love to have the chance to represent my country, that's everyone's dream to hold the flag. But I would have had to start throwing by mid-December to be in game shape by then and I've just started to throw lightly now.

Buck Showalter

There's not any phase of the game Mark wants to be mediocre in, ... He could be a guy who will steal you 10 or 15 bases a year.