Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Rumsfeld

We will be spending ... taxpayers' money -- hard-earned money -- that is being wasted to manage and maintain bases that we don't need,

We will be operating business as usual. There is no change for our 2006 plans, on the business or baseball side.

Pat Brown

We will base the (after-school) program on the feedback we get from the students this summer. The methodology might change, but the focus (on education) will not.

Alfonso Soriano

We have a day off tomorrow and will think about the baseball we've played the last two weeks. After that, we'll get back to baseball.

David Warner

We have a core chemical base here and a core plastics and polymers base. We're just trying to expand those.

We had three two-out base hits to score runs. You hope it's the start of something.

We had three kids over .300 and nobody over .400. That's not great for high school baseball. We had to always hope for a pitcher to come up with a great game so we could stay in the game, and most of the time that didn't happen.

This was fun. The sitting president to come out and throw the first ball? That's a great honor for your baseball team, your fans, your city, your region. That doesn't happen very often. First time in 130 years it happened here. It's something we were proud of and wanted to go without a hitch and it certainly did.

This was extreme circumstances,'' said Pat Courtney, a spokesman for Major League Baseball.

This was very minor, based on the report, but we look into all crashes whether there are injuries or not.

Those two runs we scored with two outs were big. I thought we ran the bases well very.

Those steals are a product of our press. I'm kind of like a center fielder in baseball. I'm reading the point guard and anticipating. With the exception of the second quarter, we played great defense.

This team is probably the loosest I've played on. Coach does a great job of keeping us loose. We play baseball at practice. He dances, claps, sings, and we all rally around that. There was no tension around the team.

Livan Hernandez

This team is excited, ... You play baseball like that. A lot of teams, the Marlins play like that and enjoy the game. This team is the same way.

Ichiro Suzuki

This was the most humiliating day of my baseball career.

This was such a big game. This is what Florida State baseball is all about. It was so much fun. What else can I say?

Dave Roberts

This was a very big game for us. We don't want to scoreboard watch too much, but we knew the Giants had won (in Washington). Jake is our staff ace, and he is our stopper. When he takes the mound, we expect to win baseball games.

This was an unfortunate outcome but, based on the facts and circumstances that our providers had at the time of the case, their response and care were completely appropriate.

This was an unfortunate decision based on false fears. These people want to censor information from students.

They just had that one inning. That was a high school baseball inning. They got walks and errors and one hit. You don't see a lot of teams stringing six and seven hits together to score runs.

They know what's at stake. They know what we're all about, so we never have to talk about the winning streak and our goals. They know what our goals are, and our goals are to win championships. We don't talk about the streak. We just feel like that if we go out and we prepare ourselves fundamentally that we will win baseball games.

It was just a hard-fought, well-played baseball game. The kids deserve a lot of credit for bouncing back after Friday.

It was just me in my basement honing my skills, hearing songs on the radio and trying to manipulate them and then writing over those, and I started with local artists in Boston, writing records for them.

It was just a great baseball game. Win or lose, obviously you don't want to lose, but you could understand in a game like this. It's very rare we score one run in a baseball game, and it's very rare that they get shut out.

It was just a good competitive high school baseball game. Juices flowing. The kids were competing and we competed until the last out.

It was just a feeling I had. It was a feeling, 'Hey now is the time to go to the 1-3-1.' It was not based off breaking down film and not based off seeing them. It was just a feeling I had.

It was just a comfort level with the manager. He inherited those guys. Both of them are good baseball people and they're going to be offered other positions in the organization.

Bill Lester

They would definitely be in control of their own destiny ... But they still need a place to play and Major League Baseball still needs a presence in the Upper Midwest.

James Oliver

They will lose the sense of control that they can reward or punish the server based on the service they receive,

They've played to much baseball for us to play like that at times. Some of the things we were doing we went over just yesterday.

They've never seen so many big league players be in a tournament like this. And in a lot of Latin American countries, I think there's a lot of pride in baseball as a national sport. They want to see us representing Puerto Rico to the best of our abilities.

Roy Halladay

They've got a tough lineup. They make you work, regardless of what the score is. It just seems like they have long at-bats, somehow they get on base and it's one of those games where I was pitching out of a lot of jams.

Things didn't go as well as we would have hoped last year, but I was very optimistic that would have been turned around based off our discussions and the way things were going with our workouts,