Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Abbey

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.

Atul Gawande

Over time I learned that there are two very different satisfactions that you can have in your life. One is the satisfaction of becoming skilled at something. It almost doesn't matter what the terrain is. There is a deep, soul-feeding resonance in mastery itself, whether in teaching, writing a complicated software program, coaching a baseball team, or marshalling a group of people to start a new business...

Eddie Vedder

The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball.

Dizzy Dean

Fans, don't fail to miss tomorrow's game.

Dizzy Dean

I'd get me a bunch of bats and balls and sneak me a couple of umpires and learn them kids behind the Iron Curtain how to tote a bat and play baseball.

Dizzy Dean

Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.

Dizzy Dean

Let the teachers learn the kids English. Ol' Diz will learn the kids baseball.

John Prendergast

The principal strategy of all these actors, both state actors and proxy militias, is to displace people in order to undermine the support base of your opponent.

The price you see at the gas station is really based on the gas station owners expectations of what they have to replace the gas in their tanks, not what they paid for it.

The prices right now for a number of the base metals are really in uncharted territory.

Dave Pelzer

In life you are going to make mistakes, you're going to fall down, but it's the getting up that counts. Just like in baseball: you'll get a few hits, but most likely, you'll strike out more than you'll get on base. But don't quit. Find your focus, relax, take a deep breath and give it a good swing

Luis Sojo

We were coming from behind until Miguel hit the top of the fence. We thought it was a home run. But the umpires, you know, thought different.

Robert Cray

We were coming back into the States from Canada when that all went down. I didn't come up with the idea. The idea came from the promoters. I said, "Yeah, let's do it." Seattle was the right place for that. That was the original home base for me, so we had a great turnout.

Clint Hurdle

We need cleaner innings from the bullpen. He has had a lot of people on base when he has been out there.

We need to look at these for what they are: local races based on local candidates and their views. I don't know that these races are determinate of larger trends.

When we scheduled them, they weren't number one, but we expected a challenge. The rankings are based a lot on tradition, but it can change. I by no means think we have the most talented team in the country, but we played hard.

When traders were able to earn a million dollars, of which base pay was $150,000 to $200,000 and the rest was bonus, they would go for it. Now if you're sitting there earning $600,000, you become less risk-seeking. And if you have less risk-seeking, the ability of the market to be incredibly volatile is increased.

Phil Garner

Let's see how he feels tomorrow. That's about kind of what I expected based on (the fact) he's been throwing off and on every other day basically for the last week.

Lets put it this way. If this was baseball, our magic number would be six.

Billy Beane

Lenny was so perfectly designed, emotionally, to play the game of baseball. He was able to instantly forget any failure and draw strength from every success. He had no concept of failure. And he had no idea of where he was.

Let's turn around what's been a declining patient base ... and let's grow for what I think is going to happen to Wilson County.

Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.

Michael Dell

Last year we dramatically extended the capabilities of the Dell direct business model through opportunities with the Internet, ... Our online customer mix moved from a predominantly consumer-oriented base to a far broader base including business and government customers.

Nick Saban

Last year was a mountain climb -- we were fortunate to be able to plant the flag at the top of the mountain and win the national championship, ... This year, we have won zero games. We are at base camp at the bottom of the mountain looking up at the climb. And it will be very difficult.

Jane Lindskold

'Legends Walking' was the first of my books to go to a second printing based on strong initial orders, but much of that printing never found its audience.

Let's fight together so this event won't be held every four years but rather every two, so the baseball world won't have to wait so long to enjoy this.

Leaving Boston was not easy. It was a high level of passion to win, a unique rivalry, a baseball operations staff which was a great, great place to work. That's what I need to learn here and need to recreate here.

Scott Anderson

Many of the upper level men players come from successful baseball careers and believe they are still playing in the major leagues.

Many of these biographies are based on rubbish that just isn't true, ... All the traditional stories came from Daniel Defoe, who of course wrote a lot of myth and legend.

Many of the plans that set out into this market, set out with expectations that they would have a larger base of beneficiaries. I do expect you will see some of the smaller, newer plans dropping out.

Samuel Bodman

Many oil producing countries do not operate in a manner consistent with U.S. federal law, but they are not based here.

John Conyers

Many of us find it unacceptable to put our brave men and women in harm's way, based on false information.

Many people get caught up in the non-stop gossip, rumor, and speculation that goes on every day. They end up making buy and sell decisions based on their emotions and using very unreliable information.