Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dusty Baker

Todd did a good job playing first base in Spring Training. He likes playing first base. He'll play first most of the time and second base some of the time.

We were expecting, based on watching tapes, that in that kind of situation they would give him the shot. We were doing whatever we could to push them out farther for that shot.

We were driving to school one morning when he was 8 years old and I said, 'Luke, what do you want to be when you grow up?' ... He said right then he wanted to be a professional baseball player. I wanted to tell him how it was a long shot and he should probably choose something else. It was right there on my lips. I think God stopped me. Instead, I said, 'Luke, somebody has to be a major-league baseball player, so why not you?'

Mark Shapiro

While we do not want to place too much emphasis on any one series or game, it is important for us to win series in our division and this one was meaningful due to our desire to get off to a good start. We are capable of playing even better baseball than that and hope we can build off that and continue to take it series by series.

While these estimates could still potentially change, we thought it could be useful to forecast a base case for the impacted casinos, giving investors an idea of the

While the larger footprint and revenue-generating units provide a great base for delivering video services, there is one catch: deployment. Mounting any kind of reliable -- and desirable -- video service is harder than press releases make it seem.

You cannot stop sexual experimentation. You can only stop risky behavior based on inaccurate information. When our parents won't teach us about our bodies, we seek information elsewhere.

You cannot measure us based on two games. We're just finding a rhythm. We believe we can get the job done. Look at what we've done the past few years. If we pitch up to our abilities, there's no doubt we'll get it done.

You cannot deny someone a job based on media reports.

We wasted opportunities, but when we hit the ball, they caught it. They're a good baseball team. Defensively they are awfully solid.

We want to win state. These girls can do it if we play our top-notch game. That means hitting, fielding and base running the best it can be.

We wanted to get a base in the Midlands and then go statewide. We want to have a collaborative effort that is representative of the state. ... But being big is a not a goal.

We wanted to get a base in the Midlands and then go statewide.

Patrick McEnroe

We had some very good options out there. My position was based on talking to my players, and taking a roll call of what they wanted and what I thought was best for our team.

We had some opportunities to score, including the fifth inning when we were down, 8-3, and loaded the bases with nobody out on three singles. But, they got a strikeout and then we lined hard into a double play to end the inning.

We have 200 million mail users worldwide, and we're using that user base of Yahoo to connect them to the premier device today.

We'd been working on that all week. We knew they were going to bunt, so we called a bunt coverage and our first baseman did a good job of executing it.

We are excited by the enthusiastic support that Canadian and international investors have shown for our company. We believe we offer the best product, programming and price point for satellite radio in Canada, providing us with a strong base from which to grow our business.

We are encouraged by the company's progress in expanding its installed base while improving its financial model.

We are emerging with a new board and management team, a sound financial position, unmatched global assets, a strong customer base and industry-leading service quality,

Bill Stern

The port business is capacity. You've got to be able to serve your customer base today and future customers.

Unfortunately, from our perspective, it came down to where we beat ourselves. You don't want to have base running mistakes and walk guys. That's something we need to talk about. But you've got to give Spring-Ford credit, too.

George Steinbrenner

Undoubtedly, you will be very successful regardless of the career path you choose. But just in case you choose major league baseball, I'll be keeping the first base position open for you.

Two perfect pitches to bunt -- they are fouled off and we left our guys stranded. (Chicago) created a two-out situation and got a base hit that scored a run. It's huge.

Two overall great college baseball games were played today. Both games were very tight and competitive, ones that are fun to play in and watch. Monmouth is a very good baseball team. Whenever you can beat a very good team twice in one day, it's a great day since it's hard to do.

Two-out base hits that drove in runs, that is how you win games.

Two innings of baseball cost us this whole game. It?s mind-boggling to me trying to digest what just happened.

When major-league baseball came to Kansas City, Ewing Kauffman always said Joe deserved most of the credit for making that happen.

Malcolm Wallop

Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.

Finally, this day has come. I look forward to seeing how I improve as a baseball player through overcoming various barriers.

First base and shortstop are the only places where we lost players from last year.

Anne Dudley

Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.

Fab 36 is the consequence of our growth plan. We are bringing the right capacity on line at the right time, based on customer needs.