Famous Quotes & Sayings

This was one our better performances. We swung the bats well, ran the bases well and made the plays defensively. It was a great effort by the kids today, we really needed this win today.

There are strong passions on all sides of the issue. The president's decision will be based on the facts.

Bill Gates

There are still some companies out there based on the old thinking,

Bob DuPuy

There are still concerns at both the top and the bottom. The goal would be to get a tighter range that would ensure that even more than 20 clubs at Labor Day still have a chance to compete for playoff spots, that playoff spots are based on skill and talent and blossoming stars and not just on plugging holes with economics.

There are some women who are embarrassed and don't want to talk about it. It is the butt of a lot of jokes, most based on myths.

Alex Rodriguez

There are so many players from so many teams, I think we do have the responsibility to show that we're the greatest country as far as baseball is concerned. We'll lace 'em up and see what happens.

The only thing that makes me mad is it messes up my baseball card. I was consistent for a long time and then that comes up. It was a learning experience for me. I'm a stronger person. I had to be. I had to bite my tongue a lot. I had to keep myself going and make sure I got my work in.

The only thing that I wish we'd see is a greater turnout, just more and more involvement. We need a broader representation from around the community on different transportation issues. I do not want us to get to the point of making some final determinations based on a response from a very small number.

The only thing that bothered him a little bit is when they had him skip, just to put all the weight on it. That didn't go as well as he was hoping, but everything else was right up to par. ... As he said, 'When am I ever going to skip on the baseball field?'

Gary Sheffield

The only thing I wanted to see is that whatever takes place ... is to try to send a strong message that fans can't throw things or hit people or put their hands on anybody. If you're out on the street, I guarantee that same guy doesn't put his hands on me. So why should we be penalized for a situation like that because we're on a baseball field?

Bobby Cox

The only thing I tell them is, 'Look, don't give the other (expletive) team too much credit. It's a baseball game. Just try to win the game.' We had a lot of things go wrong. But my theory is, you got a game every day.

Drew Houston

People make basic assumptions based on what they have now. But you have to ask yourself, 'Is this really what people are going to be doing in five years?' Very few people ask themselves what they would actually want instead if they could wave a magic wand.

Ken Robinson

Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not.

Chipper Jones

We can bunt guys over. But we're built on power. That's American baseball.

Today is a little bit of middle of the week college baseball. When it?s 14-11, it comes down to which line drive gets hit to which player. Obviously we?re disappointed to come out on the short end of it today, but we had spots where we were two outs away from getting a victory.

Jacques Rogge

To find somebody guilty of doping you don't necessarily need urine and blood samples. It can also be based on circumstantial evidence.

What you might think is ... couldn't you make a religious game where critics, fans and retailers would all line up and universally say 'Here's a game that has some sort of moral or educational value?'. But people tend to take religion extremely personally and therefore have more opportunity to be offended. If you make, say, a Christian based game, are you going to make it a Protestant game? If so, that might offend the Catholics.

What would happen to the Biological Weapons Convention if other countries followed suit and built large biological production facilities at secretive military bases known for weapons testing?

What we've seen is the loss of democracy as we know it, ... It's poor public policy that somebody loses their seat based upon a fraud.

What we have is kids that are going to become good baseball players. It's just inexperience right now. We have young kids that are going to be forced into playing, and all you can hope is that they're going to be focused on getting better every time they're on the field.

Andy Reid

What we had to work through was he also was our nickel linebacker. So you?re looking at base personnel and nickel. Now, Mike came in and did a respectable job in there. We didn?t have to change much because of that.

He really wanted a fit that fit him academically and also fit him in the baseball program. He's a terrific kid that comes from a terrific family and what they do over there is going to fit him real well.

Pervez Musharraf

have reaffirmed that our ties should be made more broad-based and multifaceted and based on a long- term and predictable basis.

Tom Harkin

has to disagree, just based on the standard of military value.

Having a successful regional is predicated on Wisconsin being here, and based on the fact where they are sitting in the pair-wise, it's going to be very difficult for the NCAA not to put them in this region. I can't see them sliding in the pair-wise, and consequently, with the necessity of the NCAA establishing strong Western sites, I just can't see the NCAA not putting them in Green Bay.

Had I guessed, I probably would have guessed the West would have the largest percentage based on the image, at least, of free-thinking universities. That's a pretty astonishing figure.

Pete Rose

had been an alcoholic or a drug addict, baseball would have suspended me for six weeks and paid for my rehabilitation.

He's a bright, young, energetic, up-and-coming quality type manager. He has the baseball knowledge, but he also has great communicative skills.

He's a big-time player. He can change the entire level of our play in the back, simply based on his experience and his level of play. He's been a winner everywhere he's been. I hope that's not going to change here.

He's a baseball guy, ... He loves working with these kids and being able to make a statement in their lives. He's always said he'd probably never work with older kids because (preteens) still believe everything you tell them. After they turn 14, they know it all.

Dontrelle Willis

He's a great baseball mind. But he wants to get with his family, and you've got to respect that.

He's a dead man talking. Based on reports from behind the scenes and critical reaction, coupled with early ratings, it's not looking good.

Jim Tressel

He's a competitor, he was excited out there and he wanted to make up for time missed. We felt that based on preparation and what we're doing, both (quarterbacks) could contribute to a win. As it turns out, when we put the film on, that very well could have happened. But it didn't.