Famous Quotes & Sayings

One of the biggest things that people say is that kids love football, they love baseball, they love soccer, they love basketball, but put a hockey stick in their hands and we'll find out where their true love is.

Chuck D.

One of the biggest decisions this organization will make is whether B.J. Upton is going to be the everyday shortstop. If not, personally, my decision would be to move him to third base and let him play there.

One of the many things I like about baseball is how it combines individual talent and teamsmanship.

Ed Rendell

One of the reasons we don't have our deficit under control is because Republicans are wusses and won't tell their base a simple fact that everyone knows. We can't eliminate the deficit without raising some revenue... They're wusses.

One of the most encouraging signs is that, if the 2003 and 2005 year classes come through in good numbers, we could have as many as four strong year classes at once. That would give us a healthier, broader base of support for the population, something we haven't had for more than a decade.

Domo Genesis

I was four or five, and my mom got all the Power Rangers to come through. I thought it was really them. I started crying tears of joy. It was so amazing. My favorite Power Ranger was the green one. He wasn't in every episode - he was rare, like Based God. He was like the Based God Power Ranger.

I was scheduled to go to Paris next week and I was really sweating it until yesterday when the conference was canceled. Yes, I'm in the business and I understand that the statistics are in your favor when you fly, but I'm just like everybody else -- I don't make decisions based on statistics.

Pete Rose

Mr. Selig looked at me and said, 'I want to know one thing. Did you bet on baseball?' ... I looked him in the eye. 'Sir, my daddy taught me two things in life -- how to play baseball and how to take responsibility for my actions. I learned the first one pretty well. The other, I've had some trouble with. Yes, sir, I did bet on baseball.'

Mr Rene Garcia Preval is credited with 51.15 per cent of the votes based on 96 per cent of voting stations counted, and is declared the winner.

Peter Schoomaker

Much of what we've gained out of Comanche we can push forward into the tech base for future joint rotor-craft kinds of capabilities, as we look further out,

Much of the NCDE is heavily forested so it's hard to see those bears. The bottom line here is we are going to have to revise the recovery plan for the NCDE, because we know we can't make a credible minimum-population estimate based on sightings of females or cubs.

Michael Specter

Much of modern molecular biology and microbiology has been based on the effort to decipher the basic code of life, which is made up of four nucleotides: adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine.

Much cooking is based on the season. We serve spring foods during that time of year, all served together.

Mt. Hope and North Kingstown are both physical teams. We'll have a battle if we get there. They did the right thing with the seeds. They did it based on record not division winners. St. Ray's is on a collision course with North Smithfield in the semis. It should be interesting.

Kevin Madden

Mr. DeLay makes decisions and sets legislative priorities based on good policy and what is best for his constituents and the country. Any suggestion of outside influence is manipulative and absurd. Mr. DeLay has very firm beliefs and he fights very hard for them.

Mother Nature did not cooperate with us at all; we had four major hurricanes and four evacuations. The last hurricane literally put the entire base under two feet of water. There were employees who lost just about everything, but they've managed to get back together to where we are today.

John Podhoretz

Movies and television shows based on comic books constitute the worst single genre in the history of filmed entertainment (with the exception of porn).

Matt Price has done a great job for us all year. He's got great poise and that's one of the things I like about Matt. He looks like a baseball player out there.

Medicare says that hospitals that perform more surgical procedures, such as many urban hospitals, are likely to experience decreases in payments as a result of moving a system of calculating payment based on hospital-specific costs, instead of charges.

Martti Ahtisaari

Mediators do not choose the conflicts they became involved in, but the parties to the conflict choose the mediator. Their participation as intermediaries is based on the trust of all the conflicting parties.

My inside game is pretty much based on quickness and my quickness is back to where it was. I've just got to get the explosiveness back and just get the feel back. I felt pretty good toward the end.

Jim Courier

My initial dream was to be a baseball player, ... I remember throwing a baseball at 2-years-old in the house. My dreams of playing tennis just kept changing. It's been a remarkable road.

My lifestyle wasn't great in baseball, and I'm much happier now. After spending three years in the minors, getting a chance to play at Colorado was a dream come true for me.

Don Cooper

My job is basically to coach the people who are there. Everyone in baseball knows, though, that Vazquez is a high-quality pitcher.

Roger Clemens

My legs felt fine, ... I still need to get a little more strength in my lower half, but I think Jim Hickey, our pitching coach, and the skipper were happy with the way I was getting out over my front leg. So it makes a big difference; without the burning sensation in my leg, it was a lot nicer. My control was still off, and I think that was what was aggravating me a little early.

My foundation is based on helping children, and I hand-pick projects that are close to my heart and home.

My form so far hasn't been great but your year is based on the whole season and not the first month or two.

John Danilovich

My first two months will be getting the home base solidified.

My first thought process was just keep it in the yard. Eighteen innings of baseball. That's unbelievable for two teams to go at it like that. It's the best game I've ever been a part of. I just want to keep learning and learning.

My first team was the Vipers 10-and-under. My dad played baseball. My grandmother's uncle played professional baseball with the St. Louis Cardinals.

Lester Holt

My first priority is to provide perspective, ... This story is so broad-reaching and there are so many elements. I don't want people to make their judgments based on one report. We should never be in a position where we're firing up a mob. I don't think it's our job to beat people up.

Adam Roberts

My first objective is to graduate. I definitely want to stay around the baseball field, maybe get into coaching and do it at the highest level I can.

Douglas Preston

My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.