Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bradley Cooper

Women are a source of energy in life. I've always wanted to be in a war or baseball movie, but the thought of having no women on set for six months - that's hell. I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around.

Bobby Fischer

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

Barack Obama

There are places I want to visit where if I'm wearing a baseball cap and some sunglasses I think I can get away with and mingle in a crowd.

Bruce McCulloch

I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.

Brooks Robinson

It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

Brooks Robinson

I'm a Major League 3rd Baseman. If you want to go play in parking lot, I'm suppose to stop the ball.

Brooks Robinson

I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.

Brooks Robinson

Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.

Brooks Robinson

If your not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.

Brooks Robinson

I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.

Bronson Arroyo

Boston fans - and New York fans are the same - it doesn't matter what you do outside of baseball, they don't forgive or forget that you play in pinstripes and they don't care about your interests off the field.

Bronson Arroyo

I'm definitely an athlete who has a hobby playing music. I've been doing baseball since I was 5 or 6. It's the only thing I've ever thought of really my whole life, and music came into my life actually in '99, playing and singing. It's definitely been the only hobby I've had that I can't put down.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing.

Scott Jones

We have a senior dominated group and we are not expecting a lot of surprises. The key to our success this year will be based on how our four through six runners perform. All of the runners have been training on their own this summer and have done a good job keeping us informed of their progress.

Conan O'Brien

President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.

Dwight Gooden

My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple-A playoffs, there were four or five. When I came up in 1984, I never saw so many people.

We used to have a 330-yard cinder track. Now it's cut to 200. They put a baseball field in the back corner.

We urge all persons to read and base their investment decision only on the preliminary prospectus, dated May 21, 2001, and the final prospectus dated the date hereof,

We understand we're officially in October baseball. It just doesn't seem right to celebrate when your magic number is one.

We shocked the world. A bunch of hockey players beat the United States. Baseball Canada is in ecstasy.

Amy Bloom

I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to write. But at the same time, I feel that writers are, of course, writing for their readers, too.

Allison Tolman

I'm hoping I can evade a type and go for roles based on what I consider plausible and what I consider good.

Sarah Gadon

I think I'll always base myself out of Toronto. I don't have any plans to move to L.A.

My collection has a whole new cut; they are based on the style of jeans my mum wore in Texas in the '70s.

Gayle Forman

I have written a picture book that is based on my daughters. You know, my youngest one likes to tell everybody, 'Mommy wrote 'Best Day Ever' about us.' Which is true.

Gene Weingarten

What if this world of ours is not based on presumptions of magic? What if this world is really 'What we see is what we get'... Would that be so bad? ... There is a secular magic in everything around us. The world is beautiful. We have love; we should take care of each other. That is not a frightening concept for any parent to deliver to a child.

Ian Schrager

Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.

Ian McLagan

Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; that's what we played, you know? We were pretty much based on Booker T. and the M.G.'s.

Gary Owens

Then, when I got in the military, I used to host - even in high school - I hosted the talent shows, and when I was in the military I would host all of our base Christmas parties and stuff.

Frederick Banting

The method of estimating the potency of insulin solutions is based on the effect that insulin produces upon the blood sugar of normal animals.

BASE jumping is skydiving from fixed objects, like buildings, antennae, bridges and earth - meaning mountains, cliffs. It's for sure - for me - it's the ultimate feeling of being in free fall, with all the visual references.

I have met many people, and everyone's impression of me is based on my career.

The toxic effect of carbon monoxide on man has nothing to do with inhibition of cellular respiration by carbon monoxide but is based on the reaction of carbon monoxide with blood iron.