Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sandy Alderson

To me it will be one more of those esoteric statistics, one more of those historic footnotes that make baseball so great, because it is unpredictable,

Ichiro Suzuki

To be honest, I never imagined we'd get there. We had a great team, the best. I hope we showed everyone what a great sport baseball is.

To win a major championship - I think, at the end of the day, that's what a golfer's career is based upon.

Scott Podsednik

To watch what Paul has done in this series ... wow. It's been fun to watch. We like our chances with guys on base and him at the plate.

Michael Specter

To suggest that organic vegetables, which cost far more than conventional produce, can feed billions of people in parts of the world without roads or proper irrigation may be a fantasy based on the finest intentions. But it is a cruel fantasy nonetheless.

This one is sort of celebrating the heritage of Negro League baseball.

This officially turns the baseball operations to you.

What it suggests is that they experienced more revenue erosion than they had counted on for January. It's encouraging for the long-term. They have a much higher cost base than they should given the size of their company so they need to right-size it. It's hard to lay off that many people, but they need to do it. I give them credit.

Richard Wiseman

What it shows is just how much of the picture in our head of our surroundings is a massive construction, based on expectations, what we think is important, what we normally encounter and so on. And that's what magicians are very good at exploiting.

We got a few guys on base early in the game, but we could not execute and we could not get those guys in. At the end, that was what really haunted us.

We got a couple of walks and base hits, and it just seemed to flow after that.

We gave the designers some parameters. We gave them the base colors. But we didn't want to hamper their creativity.

We have a base defense, but you can scheme offenses out of. We have different reads when we face different offenses. What you're seeing is 11 kids that can and will run to the football. We are very pleased with that. That is what this defense is built around which is speed.

Paul Brooks

We have a baseball-rich tradition in the community and have a pretty good group of players out.

Bernie Sanders

Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times are too serious for that.

Bernie Sanders

Politics is not a baseball game with winners or losers. What politics is about is whether we protect the needs of millions of people in the country who are hurting.

We want to go from confrontation to cooperation, ... We want our members and our workers to have health care, we want our members to get wages and improvements based on productivity. Most of all, we want our workers to be treated with dignity.

Bobby Cox

We were one base hit away from really turning the game around.

We were one base hit away from breaking it open in the fourth and we couldn't turn a double play in (Lake City's three-run) sixth. The kids played hard and never quit.

We just don't know all of this yet, ... It's just a process of waiting to see what happens. But we know the base will close.

Felipe Alou

We knew he was going to hit one. We knew he was going to hit more than one. We expect him to hit one every time he comes to the plate, and that's a good feeling even if he doesn't do anything. The anticipation gets everyone on their toes. What we need to do now is get him into good baseball shape, which he is not in now.

Felipe Alou

We knew he was going to fight his way out of it. A guy like that is just too good a baseball player ... We knew it was just a matter of time before he figured it out, and he did.

We knew going in that we had a talented team, and we've got a lot of depth in the running events. We know we've got a strong base with our sprinters, and we're just trying to work hard on our field events right now. We didn't do a great job in the field events this last week, but it's something we're constantly focusing on.

Doug Ferguson

We knew coming into this game that we were going to have to play near-perfect baseball because they're so fundamentally sound, and we didn't do that. But this (tournament) was a good experience for us.

Steve Riley

We knew and said six ways from Sunday at the time we were setting the rate, this was our best guess based on the data we have today. We took in more money than we should have.

Dennis Hastert

We kind of touched base on where we were, ... I think we reached a tentative understanding. He wanted to take it to the Democrat caucus.

Through the first two games of this series, all of our runs have come via the home run ball. We were not able to, when we tried to get something going, sustain it offensively to put ourselves in a position where a base hit or a gapper could score a couple of runs for us.

Sean Hayes

Through that, I got to know Jerry's work, and I am definitely his number-one fan right now, which is interesting because it usually works the other way around: you usually create a project based on your hero.

To imagine baseball getting involved is not far-fetched. How the involvement will end up looking is not yet determined.

You have to permit based on the reserves you have, but this is elephant country,

You have to kind of measure your patience based on how you believe in the creative, and there we felt like, unfortunately, it was not going to get better. We needed to make a quick change, and we saw life in The Bachelor, which is cast better than it's been in five years.

You may have taken the yen as far as you can, at least based on a short-term shift in policy.

With 'Human Giant,' we tested almost everything live and made tweaks based on what worked and what didn't.