Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Glavine

I'm not devastated over a baseball game. If somebody came to me and said, 'Your wife is terminally ill.' Or, if my kids and wife get on a plane and I got a call that said, 'Something happened with the plane,' that's devastating.

Ted Sarandos

Our feature film, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Two,' has a built-in fan base from the original film.

Tony La Russa

There's a bigger difference now than when I first got into professional baseball because that was before guaranteed contracts, before there was a lot of money, so it was mostly survival. You had more competition.

Tony La Russa

I think each negotiation should be based on what's the best decision - taking everything into account, not taking one thing into account.

Tyrese Gibson

I've never boxed in my life, never been in a military base in my life, never grew up with anyone in the military.

Faith Popcorn

We do a lot of brainstorming with our talent base of 6,500 experts globally,

Wednesday will be a great day for Pacific baseball. But it's also a great recognition of what the Klein family has done for our community and this university.

Craig Biggio

(Wednesday) was definitely a roller-coaster day. It was a close game, and then they tied it up with Bobby's big home run. Then they come back and scored and put us down. Willy not giving up and running all the way through the base gave us a chance. That was a nice game right there.

We'd like to have something stronger, like the World Series ending the baseball season. We are considering a vast number of options.

Shinzo Abe

We would like to deal with this firmly based upon our basic recognition that both...the nuclear non-proliferation issue and stable crude oil supplies are important.

We want to continue building our relationship with the city of Anaheim. We have worked together through the years and we are now working together in brining the World Baseball Classic to Anaheim.

We want to consider our partners and the needs of the world economy, ... We do not decide our currency rate based on the trade deficit of any single country.

We were a little sluggish. We had different ones (hitters) come through for us. We had some hits with people on base and that is what you want to do. Big hits when we needed them.

We were able to run the bases well and we did some other things right as well.

We were able to put Greg out on (Pasco) in the fourth quarter and I think that certainly had something to do with it. Oz (Hopewell) had him for the first three or four minutes of the fourth, then when it was crunch time and we were going to win or lose based upon what they did on their offensive end, we wanted to make sure Greg was on him.

We were able to give them priority based on a natural disaster preference,

We work hard to be family-affordable entertainment. Baseball is the only major-league pro sport that is geared to families, which we at the Indians take very seriously. There are food items, souvenirs and ticket plans to fit every person's pocketbook.

We worked very closely with World Baseball Classic and the State Department.

Abel Ferrara

I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

Robert Owen

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.

Roxane Gay

I think one of the most important things we can do as feminists is acknowledge that, even though we have womanhood in common, we have to start to think about the ways in which we're different, how those differences affect us, and what kinds of needs we have based on our differences.

Ravi Shankar

There are thousands of ragas, and they are all connected with different times of the day, like sunrise or night or sunset. It is all based on 72 of what we call 'mela' or scales. And we have principally nine moods, ranging from peacefulness to praying, or the feeling of emptiness you get by sitting by the ocean.

Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense.

The data speaks for itself. I respect everyone's opinion, but we make decisions based on facts, not opinions.

The decision was mine. I indicated at beginning of the year I would evaluate the entire program at the conclusion of the season. ... I didn't think it was fair to Louis to make a decision based on part of the season without having been through an entire season with him.

The decision was based on new evidence that came to light in this litigation.

The decision to name one of the top managers in the game of baseball in recent time, to bring him back to this organization, is a very big day for our franchise.

Gene Edwards

The decision to build a formal living room is really based on the price range of the home, rather than design trends.

The decision should be based on the qualifications of the nominee, not whether the nominee is a member of the same political party,

The decision is not being made based on money. We are making the decision based on the football team's best interest.

The decision is made on the merits, not based on U.S. television interests, ... The reason why bidding took place before the selections was to take that factor (U.S. television money) out of the games selection process. If the networks were able to vote, they'd vote to know the cities before they bid.

Larry Sabato

The Democratic base is as energized as I've ever known it to be. Bush is hated, and that's all the invective you need.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.