Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbert Hoover

Through baseball we channel boys desire for exercise and let off their explosive violence without letting them get into the police court.

Herbert Hoover

I SEND YOU MY HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS UPON BEGINNING THE THIRTIETH YEAR OF YOUR GREAT CAREER AS MANAGER OF THE NEW YORK GIANTS, IN WHICH YOU HAVE DONE SO MUCH TO UPHOLD THE TRADITIONS OF CLEAN SPORTSMANSHIP IN THE MOST BELOVED NATIONAL GAME.

Herbert Hoover

I shall tell my doctors baseball has more curative powers than all their medicine.

Herbert Hoover

Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.

Herbert Hoover

I was not able to work up much enthusiasm over the ball game, and in the midst of it I was handed a note informing me of the sudden death of Senator Dwight morrow. He had proved a great pillar of strength in the senate and his death was a great loss to the country and to me. I left the ballpark with the chant of the crowd ringing in my ears, 'We Want Beer!'

Herbert Hoover

I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was no good.

Herbert Hoover

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

Herbert Hoover

I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons.

Jack Nicklaus

You're always struggling because you're not playing on a 53-and-a-third by a 120-yard field. You're not playing on a baseball diamond. With golf, every field is different and every atmosphere is different. The grass is different. The weather is different. You're outside. You're not in a stadium. There are so many different variables, so you never master golf. So, I think good athletes like a challenge.

Jack Adams

What pitching is in a short series in baseball, goaltending is in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Before Pearl Harbor, 84 percent of those surveyed said that baseball should continue to be played. Afterward, that number dropped to 66 percent. The majority of the people wanted the sport to be played, but it was obvious that many people had their minds changed by just that one single event.

Jim Edmonds

Because he's a good player - he's got great defense, a good arm, runs the bases well and just plays it right.

Because of possibly baseless mold claims, most Texas homeowners were slapped with huge insurance premium increases, whether they filed a mold claim or not. Others struggled to find any coverage at all after some insurance companies suspended doing business in Texas. Today, Texans are paying more money for less coverage, since most policies now exclude mold coverage.

Certainly we are developing concept cars with the intent that they influence production cars. So we take the F3R's packaging very seriously. We're looking at that design very seriously to gauge its potential as a base for a production vehicle.

Larry Lucchino

Certainly Theo is a good friend of all of us, and he's worked very closely with these guys in the past. The door has been really ajar for some time, and until Theo goes to work for another baseball organization we'll keep the light on in the window with the possibility of him coming back and helping us.

Certainly (the government) made some statements in recent times that they'd be very, very, concerned if this skill base went offshore.

Chad has a great arm, and he is very good at reading pitchers. He has worked very hard, and is very baseball mature.

Pat Gillick

Charlie's a good baseball man and he's been around the game for a long time, ... He can evaluate players mentally and physically. A lot of managers can't do that.

Jack Evans

By and large, these decisions are being based on our decision to focus on core businesses.

Daniel Morgan

By getting their owned skilled team, Celera can begin to tie together their massive data base with a research base and begin developing compounds on their own, ... That's all to the good and will help diversify their revenue base.

By reducing the cost base drastically we will be able to realize market presence with greatly reduced exposure,

Trey Smith

Hopefully our game will do for mid-major conferences, what we hope it will do for all of college baseball, which is get more fans in the seats and watching on TV. We know how exciting college baseball is, and hopefully after gamers play 'MVP '06,' they will too.

Hopefully, it will be a learning experience. It was not the best conditions, be we're too good of a baseball team to play like we did.

Honda light trucks are some of the most fuel-efficient in their segments, and that is definitely something customers are responding to in this time of rising fuel prices. We're not seeing a shift away from light trucks right now, but we are seeing customers make purchase decisions based on fuel economy.

Home run, base hit, whatever. It's just nice to contribute. It was really a nice moment for me to put us ahead. More importantly, getting a win in a game like that was big for us.

Brian Cashman

Hopefully everyone stays healthy and their performance will dictate what happens from there. Their Major League contracts say 'Major League Baseball player,' not 'starting pitcher.' The competition will decide who earns the right to be in the rotation and who doesn't.

He's very quick, has a good bat and a great arm. It's nice to come and see him grow up as a person and a baseball player.

Being on our own and hitting the road as hard as we did was a music education in itself. We didn't have a lot of bills, so we were able to just focus on the music, build a fan base and make friends within the music industry.?;That, and our?;reputation as being incredibly easy to work with, is what eventually earned us a major-label recording contract.

Joe Nichols

Being in the studio with Dolly was like a baseball fan getting to play catch with Mickey Mantle.

Being here for three years and knowing nothing but coach, it's certainly going to be an adjustment. It's a testament to coach that, when he's gone, he's left such a strong base that we're going to do just fine.

Before high school I really wanted to play basketball and play in the NBA and all of that stuff. I still miss it. Once I saw that baseball could maybe take me somewhere, I decided to pursue it.

Ned Yost

Before he came to Spring Training, he strained it a little bit. He slightly re-injured it in the World Baseball Classic. He came back and was feeling all right, but he slid into first the other day and kind of tweaked it again.