Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donna Shalala

We're losing ground in the battle to protect our children,

Rahul Dravid

We are playing good cricket and have won 11 games when we have chased. We are confident of doing both. We have specific plans when we bat first or chase. I do not think we prefer doing one over another.

Harbhajan Singh

I like wearing good clothes. Some of my friends who are into making clothes told me since I was already playing with my own brand of bat sticker, I should make a foray in fashion. The idea has worked very well.

Timothy Noah

The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude, apologizes profusely.

Isobelle Carmody

What's gratifying is that it's my books that are being read and reread until they're battered over the years. I love that.

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

Zac Goldsmith

I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.

Yehuda Berg

At any given moment, it's not about where we are supposed to be. It's about what work, which relationship, what decision I take. Every moment counts. Every decision counts. And if we look at our decisions in life as such, we stop battling and start winning.

Adam Gilchrist

I would be comfortable to bat anywhere,

Adam Gilchrist

I now know what Sachin Tendulkar feels every time he bats in India.

West Fork got up on us early in the first, and that's typical of us and them. They're going to battle us every step. I was kind of worried about how we'd do, but we came back and put four on the board. When we're responding, that helps.

(West Campus) played exceptionally well. We were in control the whole way, but down the stretch we had to keep our composure and make free throws. It was good for us to be in a battle like that at this time in the season.

Harsha Bhogle

Like an author, a cricketer signs his name on every innings he bats or bowls in; indeed for every cricket ball that challenges him on the field.

Albert Einstein

What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?

We were a little more comfortable offensively and we did swing the bats better. Baseball's a hard game and we have to be more comfortable when we play it. Scoring early today helped us relax a little bit.

We were able to get up on (PHU) early, and we did a pretty good job battling underneath. We knew this was going to be a tough, close game.

We worked together the whole time. The whole crew works like a family. Mr. Sheldon made sure I had a home to stay in, and we're all in the house (Mitchell, his father, and Stewart in east Baton Rouge). We've just been sticking together like family. I hadn't heard from some of my family, then I did...everyone's OK now, and so I can rest.

We didn't swing the bats well. We had some chances, but couldn't get the big hit. It was a pitchers' duel.

We didn't swing the bats well today, but I think that had more to do with Mike than anything else. He pitched a heck of a game. Sometimes you run into a guy like that, that has a great day and you tip your hat to him.

We didn't swing the bats well early in the year, but we're starting to come around.

We didn't swing the bats the way we should have, but we did have our key people up in the key situations, and we were able to score some runs.

Bruce Bochy

We didn't swing the bats at all today. We got the big hit there by Joe but we didn't create many opportunities, and we were dodging bullets all day.

We didn't swing the bat at all the first four innings.

We didn't have a great day at the plate, but we hung in there and found a way to win regardless. This team knows how to win games. Some days, the bats aren't there. What's important is that you keep your head in the game and find a way to stick with it. That's what we did.

Joe Browne

We believed that the first priority was not to interfere with any relief efforts that were accommodating the evacuees, and that included Houston, it included San Antonio, it certainly included Baton Rouge,

We battle and we understand who we are. We are not going to blow teams out. We are going to play everybody close.

Robin Leach

Back on Nov. 23, 1963, I sailed into Manhattan Harbor onboard the Queen Mary and landed with no job and contacts and just $135 in my pocket. My first lodging was in a rundown hotel for $27 a week with the bathroom down the end of a corridor of beds.

The debate over the next nominee will do far more to form the battle lines for the '06 midterm elections than anything involving the Congressional leadership.

We played with a lot of emotion tonight. Coach Boots told us not to even look at the score in the second half. We were just supposed to keep battling and focusing on playing good basketball.

We played as hard as we can. Sometimes you just get beat. We've got an uphill battle now.

We played as hard as we can. à Sometimes you just get beat. We've got an uphill battle now.

We played a challenging schedule and we're prepared for the road. We'll battle back.

Scott Smith

We played about as well as we could in the first 10 minutes. But we got tired. We started to play at a different tempo, their tempo, which was too fast for us. It was a battle of tempos, and they won.