Famous Quotes & Sayings

Buck Showalter

There is only one way to find out and we had this opportunity to let him go out there. The biggest thing is to get his bat in the lineup.

The past couple days, I've been swinging out of my shoes. But I tried just to focus more and get the bat on the ball. My dad always says if I get a hold of it without over-swinging, it will go. Sometimes I just get so excited that I swing crazy, but that doesn't work.

(The Panthers) weren't able to throw their No. 1 or No. 2 guys, but not to take away anything from my kids, we swung the bats well. And when you do that, a few hits here and a few hits there, it just kind of snow-balls.

Asa Hutchinson

This should not be a battle between the managers and the White House defense team, ... This is a battle between the facts of this case. The concentration should be on the facts, not on the lawyers, not the managers.

David Wright

The play I botched in the ninth has to be made. It was a battle and I let my teammates down.

The players wanted to go out for a drink tonight to celebrate but I told them 'No'. If they beat Bath next week to complete a second double maybe I will let them celebrate then.

The players never really had a beef with anything. When that whole thing happened behind the batting cage, the players were just standing there talking to each other.

E. B. White

The phone call inspired them to give a brilliant performance at the Battle of the Bands. It was just overwhelming.

Adam Hall

The power play is one of those things that tends to be a little bit streaky, ... Sometimes everything is going right for you and the pucks just bounce in for you. Other times you making the plays and nothing is going right. You just ride it out and battle whether it is hot or cold.

Candice Olson

There are a million studies that say the money you put into a kitchen and bath update you get back. That's one of those places you can't go wrong. It can be as simple as updating counters and a backsplash.

Justin Langer

When you play on a wicket that is spinning a lot like we saw in Melbourne, there is a lot of people around the bat and there's a lot happening.

We always tell our kids to never give up. They just kept battling back.

We always seem to have some really good battles with them. (The comeback) was a matter of us getting up and guarding people. (John) Ashworth and the big boy (Johnson) is really a load in there.

Joe Horn

We love our fans. We thank them for coming here and showing their support. We should have been booed. We were playing horrible. ... I can feel their pain. All I can do is apologize. I love New Orleans and Baton Rouge. I miss Louisiana.

Ken Hitchcock

When you look at a team like Ottawa, to me that's a good gauge on your team and individuals. They still have the heaviest team in battles and competitiveness.

When you have a game like that early in the year, it's great. I've been swinging the bat pretty good in spring training, so I just stayed with the same routine, the same philosophy into the season.

Ivan Rodriguez

When you have a day like this early in the year, it's great. I've been swinging the bat pretty good in spring training, so I just stayed with the same routine, the same philosophy.

When you go through these tough times, you're supposed to be able to battle through it, ... I question some of the battling.

We were swinging the bats the whole game, putting it in play. When Coppola hit it out, they saw he got elevation, and suddenly the groundouts turned into line drives.

Ned Yost

We were swinging the bats really well today.

Jermaine Dye

We've got to continue to battle and not put pressure on ourselves.

Helen Garner

Courts are supposed to be places of reason. But this, of course, is a fantasy. I mean, there is reason being used as a technique. But courts, in fact, are baths of emotions.

Jacque Jones

While it's exciting to be a present-day Thurgood Marshall, it is also disappointing that we are still fighting the same battles that should've been solved years ago.

While he was with us, he was swinging the bat real well. The thing that stood out for me is the improvement he's made defensively. He's throwing better and he's taking better routes in the outfield defensively.

With our speed, we think it's a strength and we can score runs. We just didn't have our bats today.

With our personnel, we can give Serra a battle (for the Division IV team title).

Without question this battle has been time consuming and draining. How much better could the numbers have been if management had been freed up to focus on the business and not reading legal briefs?

Rebecca MacKinnon

Without global human rights, labor and environmental movements, companies would still be hiring 12-year-olds as a matter of course and poisoning our groundwater without batting an eyelid.

We need to come out and battle for third. If we can do that, we can make into the top five.

We've been knocking at the door for a while so it was nice for the door to be opened. But it's going to be a titanic battle because the Hurricanes are a great side.

We've been committing mental errors early in the games, and it's put us in a hole every time. I like the way we keep battling back - these kids don't believe they're ever out of the game - but we've just not executed well in the early parts of the games.

We've been battling it out the whole season. They've pretty much beaten us by one point or two points in every race. I'm hoping our guys can move up and edge them out. It's going to be super-close.

We've been battling back and forth about it. I told her this year would be our year to get them.