Famous Quotes & Sayings

All that was contained in the report is based on presumptions and allegations. There's no proof.

All of this is based upon the Summit County lie. This is all rumor and innuendo from a political crony of Ohio's last political boss.

All of the schools, and the district name, are based on the Mohawk Indian language because that's the tribe that (historically) roamed these plains.

All the big electronics companies are based in Japan. So when you start putting a lot of electronics and electrical systems in, I think they probably have the best infrastructure to make the sub-assemblies.

All the decisions are based entirely on the election code.

Joseph Estrada

All the hostages, based on reports, are alive,

Ted Thompson

All seven people I interviewed wanted Brett Favre to come back and play quarterback for us. I know Mike has worked with Brett so there is some familiarity, but I didn't make the decision to hire Mike as a head coach based on that.

Maurice Allais

All science is based on models, and every scientific model comprises three distinct stages: statement of well-defined hypotheses; deduction of all the consequences of these hypotheses, and nothing but these consequences; confrontation of these consequences with observed data.

And, don't think I don't sneak over the baseball field every once in a while to see Chad.

Heywood Broun

The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with."

Heywood Broun

When the ball was last seen crossing the roof of the stand in deep right field at 315 feet, we wonder whether new baseballs conversing together in the original package ever remark: "Join Ruth and see the world."

Hideki Matsui

I'm a baseball player. Not being able to play baseball certainly was a lonely thing.

Hideki Matsui

I've been watching American baseball on television for a long time, but it was only in recent years that, realistically, I've been thinking about playing here.

Kurt Cobain

I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball.

Khaled Hosseini

I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.

Kerry Wood

I'm just a normal kid who lives to play baseball. I'm living my dream.

Kerry Wood

The National League is baseball to me.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what were doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?

Norman Rockwell

I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers... only foxy grandpas who played baseball with the kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the backyard.

Orrin Hatch

The fact that Judge [Samuel] Alito is such a baseball fan gives me even more confidence that he knows the proper role of a judge.

O. Henry

[A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened to the game of baseball. Crack! we hit the ball, and away we go. If we earn a run (in life we call it success) we get back to the home plate and sit upon a bench. If we are thrown out, we walk back to the home plate -- and sit upon a bench.

Michael Cera

I heard Bob Weinstein actually likened actors to baseball players. You work for a while then all of a sudden you go through a dry spell.

Michael Cera

Baseball players tend to have something like 20 good years in them and then around their mid-thirties they aren't in the same shape as the young guys in the league and kind of aren't worth as much. Then they retire before 40. And they are left floating adrift in the middle of the ocean.

Michael Caine

I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast.

Marvin Olasky

Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return.

Martina Hingis

Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.

Michael Chabon

Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in which even champions lost almost as often as they won, and even the best hitters were put out seventy percent of the time.

Michael Chabon

I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant figures of dogs snatching at a little passing car, a miniature housewife on her back porch shaking out a snippet of red rug, and I made a sudden, frightened vow never to become that small, and to devote myself to getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

Michael Chabon

The first and last duty of the lover of the game of baseball," Peavine's book began, "whether in the stands or on the field, is the same as that of the lover of life itself: to pay attention to it. When it comes to the position of catcher, as all but fools and shortstops will freely acknowledge, this solemn requirement is doubled.

Theodore Roosevelt

I like to see Quentin (Roosevelt) practicing baseball. It gives me hope that one of my boys will not take after his father in this respect, and will prove able to play the national game.

Joe Posnanski

I never argue with people who say baseball is boring, because baseball is boring. And then, suddenly, it isn't. And that's what makes it great.

Jack Welch

If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?

The hurricane will have a far-reaching impact on the tourism business. And New Orleans is all about tourism. It's based on tourism. It will take at least six months before we see any signs of recovery on that front, if not more.