Famous Quotes & Sayings

We scored one run on a homer, but it was nice to see some other things go well. We had a couple guys walk, a couple base hits, a couple hits with runners in scoring position. Those are the little things you have to do to win. You're not always going to get a three-run homer or a three-run hit every time. You have to do the small things, and that's what we did today.

We scored early, but the bats kind of fell silent in the middle of the game. They take their baseball seriously. It was fun to go over there and play them.

Vanessa returns after playing a number of years at the first base position. She is very intelligent and plays and thinks the game very well.

Vicki is a basketball player who's never played softball before. She's really quick, so our goal with her is just get her on base and move her around. Now that she's starting to hit that's really going to be a help.

Matthew McConaughey

Very seldom to you read about stories like this. It's based on something that happened ... history. I was inspired by it. It really happened and it stayed on my mind. I wanted to be a part of it somehow." ()

We feel positive about our many growth opportunities and our cost reduction initiatives outlined in January. We also have already begun to see the benefits from our lean manufacturing initiatives and have experienced a broad base of support for these efforts throughout our operations.

We feel like we've got all our bases covered and the message is out, but people don't always heed the warnings. In a way, the industry is in conflict with a certain set of its customers.

We don't want to see a game of this importance decided like this, but sometimes the baseball gods are unkind to you.

Richard Engel

You gotta love the names. They're so eager, earnest, and hopeful: Camp Prosperity, Camp Liberty, and Camp Victory are the names of just a few of the U.S. military bases in Baghdad.

Joe Girardi

You go from being excited to panicking a little bit when a guy slides into him. Your emotions can get a little wavy. For me, being a baseball player, it's just exciting to watch what kids can do. When you think about it, he probably should be a junior in college.

Shane Jones

You give a team five runs in an inning well, we didn't give them to (Mountain Crest). We gave them a couple of runs, some runners on base and they came up with big hits.

You have to recognize that you have a chance to have a special place in baseball history, so you're going about it for more than just the moment or the money or the stats or the attention. I think that will be the key for some of these really terrific young pitchers. You have to be really good, and at some point you have to dedicate yourself to your place in baseball history.

You have to realize that if you start making deals just based on public opinion, you're going to be in a lot of trouble.

Gigi Hadid

You have to realise that everyone that you are working with is important. It doesn't matter where you are starting from; you are always going to run back into those people, and they are going to talk, and that's going to be the base of whether you get good opportunities or not.

You have to proceed as if you are not going to have him. That's the only way you can proceed. We signed two veteran corners, obviously, to protect ourselves. But I think when you get into the draft you can never make a decision that is based on another player's medical uncertainty. You are really taking too much of a risk there.

You get the tax credit based on the purchase price of the product and the installation and it's up to 10 percent of that cost to a max of $500 will be returned to you by Uncle Sam.

Maria Ressa

You get the idea: everyone wants to use and interpret the information they get based on their vested interests and that often clouds the judgment of the information.

John Schultz

You get the bases loaded, things get a little bit tighter and tense. We had a chance to get some momentum for us ... but it just didn't happen right there.

David Wright

You look at it, you've got to take one game at a time and play good baseball. Yes, we started hot, but there have been a ton of teams that start hot, then they go into a drought after that. So we have to stay focused and continue doing what we're doing.

Mark Ellis

You look at Frank's numbers and he's amazing. He's already a presence around here. You couldn't be a baseball fan in the '90s and not follow Frank Thomas. He's as good as there was in the game.

Paul Theroux

The idea of traveling in Africa for me is based on going by road or train or bus or whatever and crossing borders. You can't travel easily or at all through some countries.

Working on a big-budget summer blockbuster with a built-in fan base is a dream come true for any actor.

Obviously there are positives to working in the epicenter of innovation. But there are also disadvantages. There is a groupthink mentality that goes on. Being based outside of Silicon Valley, you're not as subject to it.

Peter Gould

I wrote a spec script that people really liked: a political serial based on Jeffrey's Toobin's 'A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.' It was the first thing I had ever written with any political subject matter in it.

P. L. Travers

'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is based is my favorite - the myth of the Monkey Lord who loved so much that he created chaos wherever he went.

Portia Simpson-Miller

I'm a Christian woman, but I believe in human rights. I do not go into people's bedrooms. I appoint people based on their capabilities, not their sexual orientation.

Love never ends or fails. Love never ends. Everything must be based on love - the relation between two friends, my ministry, my service; the church services in every field must be based on love. Why? Because God is Love.

Philip Kerr

All nationalism is based on racism and hate. I'm Scottish; I was born in Scotland, as my parents, as my grandparents.

Paul Broun

There are more people killed with baseball bats and hammers than are killed with guns.

You can't really think about anything. If you over-analyze a situation, you're going to put more pressure on yourself than you need to and mentally, you're just going to find a way to just blow up, and I don't know if you'll be able to get the job done. I don't think about anything when I'm out there, when I have people on base in a one-run game. I just pitch.

Mike Jacobs

You can't really describe it. It's like walking on air. After I hit my home run, I felt like I didn't hear anything and just jogged around the bases ... it's unexplainable.

John Kruk

You can't put a slug out there at first base and expect him to make plays.

You can't put 23 people on base and expect to win the game. You can't make six physical mistakes.