Famous Quotes & Sayings

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,

For her to throw a one-hitter, she had complete control. She was never threatened on the bases or anything.

For him not to come out and look at it, he has no base calls to make.

For John Woo, it is quite difficult to make a movie in Hollywood in his own style. Because Hollywood is based on a producer system, it is difficult for a director to express himself using his own style of filmmaking.

Rafael Furcal

For me, it's like a regular game. I guess the Dodgers needed me more than the Braves needed me, and that's why I'm here. It's a business. I'm happy to be here. I have a lot of friends there, but baseball is like that.

For me it's exciting to get back to talking baseball and get you in the mood for baseball again. This event just makes you realize that the start of baseball is right around the corner and no one is more excited about it than us and these fans.

Forget winning the World Series. I enjoyed playing baseball for the first time in a long time.

Steve Phillips

For a star player, he's one of the lowest-maintenance guys in baseball, ... You didn't have to worry about a late-night phone call, there was no entourage issue with him. He showed up to play every day, played hard and produced.

For a series of meetings, if you can reduce the no-show factor by even 1 percent, that can make a significant difference. If you're running a series of 100 dinner meetings and you can get even one more doctor to each one of them, then you've touched 100 more physicians. That has a lot of impact. Even a minimal decrease in the no-show factor can pay volumes in dividends for years to come if, for example, those 100 doctors were to change their prescribing habits based on what they learned.

Alex Rodriguez

I'm not concerned with what Boston does or Cleveland. We have to play our best baseball down the stretch.

I'm not John Wooden, but he wouldn't play a guy based on potential or stats. Five seniors have stayed and they are playing for money. Five years ago I would be praised for rewarding guys for what they earned and not for what their stats say.

Johnny Damon

I'm excited; Boston is where I've had my greatest memories of playing baseball. To me, it's just playing baseball games. I'm looking forward to going there and getting it over with.

Alex Gonzalez

I'm excited and proud to be playing for one of the best teams in baseball.

I'm excited about the clinic because I'll get to help kids get excited about baseball.

I'm expecting this to be the biggest single-day ticket sale in our history and Major League Baseball history.

I'm extremely excited to move forward. Baseball has been great to me. It's been a great experience. But I'm definitely ready to move on. The lifestyle - people don't realize how difficult it is. A lot of things happened to me this off-season. There are things more important in life (than baseball). I decided to step away.

Roger Clemens

I'm proud of the way he carries himself out there. But I'd be proud of the way he carries himself if he wasn't playing baseball at all.

I'm proud of them. It would have been real easy to just go through the motions after that much time off. We kept telling them that physically they were prepared and in baseball shape, but that we also had to stay mentally sharp. Tonight, they looked mentally sharp. They came out ready to play.

I'm proud of them, it's been business as usual. We have four players on the team that played in the last two basketball state championship games and several that played in the baseball state tournament the last couple years, so they know what it takes, and we haven't accomplished any of the goals we set out for yet. It's just a reward for the first four games.

Ichiro Suzuki

I'm really proud that I'm only one of two players from Major League Baseball in the final game. I sense MLB is hurting a little bit.

I'm really excited about what I see, and who I have around me. We have a good base and understanding of what we are doing. We might be young, but we are educated and have a lot of game behind us.

David Harris

I keep points throughout our practice rounds and team members are chosen based on their point totals. I've kept those totals since we started practicing in January.

I like bringing comedy to musicals. That's what's so much fun about this show, because the writers are so based in comedy. I've been able to make it dance and sing ? and keep building things ? in a way they're not used to. For me to be able to get people to laugh in dance is huge because it doesn't always happen.

John Buck

I like being in control. You feel like you've been a solid factor in winning over, say, a first baseman or a right fielder. That's why I like it a lot. It's such an important role.

John Buck

I learned the most I've ever learned in one year in baseball, from getting knocked down and getting back up and getting knocked down again. Sometimes that's good for you.

Charles Schumer

I hope we rise to the occasion. To have Wyoming get $38.31 per capita, while New York gets only $5.47 per capita, doesn't look like a formula based on threat, but looks like a formula based on politics, to me.

Eric Chavez

I hope we can score five or six runs tomorrow. I hope this will help get our confidence back. There's a lot of baseball left, I hope we can get going again.

I hope we can have a discussion based on a draft report at the next meeting.

I hope they enjoyed our baseball team. We had a very nice clinic for young kids that went well. It was a good day for our program and a good day hopefully for the city of Ozark.

I hope the Classic remains and those responsible for eliminating baseball from the Olympic Games were able to see the great show that baseball is all about.

Jack Morris

I just can't imagine what it would be like here without baseball. I don't even want to think about it. ... I just hope that the last few years - you know, three out of four they were in the playoff hunt - that everybody forgets about that contraction stuff and that some way, somehow, there will be baseball in Minnesota.

I imagine the curfew was very important, especially the first couple of months. But I think at this point and time, based on the interaction I've had with the local community, people are really wanting to get out and stay here in Bay St. Louis instead of driving to Waveland and Diamondhead and other counties to go out and have a good time.