Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Konerko

You have to know what you're doing and where you're going. For some guys, the answer is just keep doing what you're doing. For other guys, that might not be the case. It just depends on what kind you are.

Paul Konerko

We know next year was suppose to be our year, but we didn't feel like waiting when we think we can win now.

Paul Dickson

The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball.

Mackenzie Astin

If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Marx was wrong--religion is not the opiate of the masses, baseball is.

Harlan Coben

I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

Grantland Rice

Christy Mathewson brought something to baseball no one else had ever given the game. He handed the game a certain touch of class, an indefinable lift in culture, brains, and personality.

John Cheever

The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost man. One would not want as a reader a man who did not appreciate the finesse of a double play.

John Cheever

To be an American and unable to play baseball is comparable to being a Polynesian and unable to swim.

You know, Rome wasn't built in a day so you have to try to set the groundwork, set the base work and move from there and I think that's what we've done with a lot of the groups.

You'd go to the Kannapolis Y, and the weights were hidden down in the basement where no one ever went, ... Now weights are the centerpiece of every Y in the country.

You could see the momentum change halfway through the game and they (Palm Springs) got it. We had a couple of base running errors and some mental mistakes, but I think that they were nervous. This is our rival game and Palm Springs played really well.

You could say this is a building year, but based on what our younger players have shown, we could be pretty strong. Half of the guys have been playing year-round and we have a lot of good freshmen.

Carlos Lee

You could say that. I get to play with some of the best players in baseball.

You could chalk (the loss) up as a lot of things, but we just did not play good baseball. Why? I don't know. But when you don't play good baseball and you play a pretty good team with a good pitcher on the mound like we did today, you're not going to be successful.

Charles Schumer

You can't have a campaign for a nominee based on whispers and winks.

You can't take anything away from Central. This was a great game. It's what high school baseball is all about.

You can't say based upon tonight's results that the City of Jefferson wants a Wal-Mart,

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.

You can't predict the future based on the past. Lifting 30,000 people off rooftops with helicopters is not going to work.

Hu Jintao

You can see for yourself based on the reception that my friends here have given me.

Mike Lazaridis

The market for BlackBerry is our core customer base and that's what we've targeted.

Marissa Mayer

The market favors open choice for search, and companies should compete for users based on their quality of search services.

Matt Long

I wasnt athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.

Matt Diaz

I've been sent down to the minor leagues six or seven times in my career. You've just got to have that stability. It's huge. It's comforting. And it's reassuring. To be part of something in this world that's constantly changing like baseball, it's awesome to have your hope anchored in something that's so stable.

Matt Holliday

I'm just enjoying playing baseball in the major leagues.

Matt Kemp

I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games.

Matt Kemp

I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball.

Matt Kemp

Everybody used to say that baseball players can't dress and athletes can't dress. You know, a lot of athletes now are trying to prove everybody wrong, though there are some athletes that try too hard and try to do over-the-top things. But me, I try to be simple and just make whatever I'm wearing look good.

Maya Angelou

If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed to stand there and turn the other cheek, so he or she can get a better angle at taking your head off.