Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dusty Baker

Guys tell me they sleep on the road a lot easier and better than they do at home, ... At home, you end up waking at 7:00 in the morning because you're used to getting up early. On the road, you're not worried about sleeping in and missing batting practice. You're always conscious here of oversleeping. You don't want to wake up in a panic, especially if it's cloudy or dark outside. If it gets sunny early, you're jumping out of bed and it could be 6 o'clock.

Half the battle is getting every player to realize how they are going to benefit the team and what they should do all of the time. Nikki knows what she's supposed to do. She comes in for two minutes, five minutes, whatever it may be, and she's physical, crashes the boards, grabs as many as she can, sets the screens. She knows it.

Stephen J. Cannell

So many people get involved with carrying grudges and having these moral battles with people, where they cast themselves as the righteous and the other guy is the dirtbag. They waste tons of energy on it, create all kinds of darkness around themselves and the other person. It gets you nothing.

I was telling our guys to get as few walks as possible because we wanted to swing the bats today.

Christopher Nolan

I wouldn't consider doing a Batman sequel unless I felt like it could be a great film, a film even better than the one we already made. But I certainly couldn't do another one on such a large scale right after having finished this one. I'm very glad to be doing something completely different.

I would say in Division 2, St. Clair boys have just been rolling, and I think the Division 2 race will be a great battle between St. Clair and (defending champion) Lutheran North,

I would have liked to win, but then there is only so much you can do for it, and this time it was Fernando. I'm certainly not complaining about finishing second. There are several good teams, all of which are capable of battling for the title, and it's great to be one of them.

I would hate for people to feel complacent -- like we're somehow winning this battle -- because you have a problem leveling off at a terrible point.

I would go to battle with T.O. any day of the week. A lot of people don't understand him.

I wish I could say I wanted to be batting like this at this point in the year, but I can't say that. It's nice. I'm hoping to keep it up.

I wish I could of had her batting for everybody.

I would be glad to go to bat for her. She was a very credible, believable person and deserves that sort of respect in this situation now.

I was pleased with the effort. We had several pins. The kids looked good. We've got some quality kids here and they'll battle to the end.

I was pleased with our effort. We didn't win, but we battled back, and that kind of battle is what I'm looking for.

If we get the bats going, I think everything else will fall into place.

Jack Rio

If we gain an edge with them having to battle in the dark uniforms, then we'll do that for the opener. I just thought that a team coming out of the northwest, why not put them in their dark colors?

If we had to go to battle tomorrow, we'd be ready.

If we're going to make a run at Battle Ground, we're going to need all our guys stepping up Saturday.

Mike Robinson

If we knew how tough the weight class was, we might have reconsidered our decision. But you never know. Maybe he'll knock off the No. 1 seed right off the bat -- he's been wrestling pretty well.

Johnny Damon

I grabbed Trot Nixon's bats today and I'm grabbing any bat that feels good now.

Kevin Boothe

I got my love for football watching him play in high school and then going off to college. I talk to him about four or five times a day. He's married now and has two kids, but whenever I go home, we have video game battles like we are teenagers.

Jesse McCartney

I grew up as a huge comic fan and a huge Batman & Robin fan. I watched all the TV shows, went to all the movies - I even had the lunch box; man, I was in!

We took a really good shot at them tonight. They're a very good club, and they withstood it and really swung the bats all the way through.

Dana Milbank

We're one of the most reviled subsets of one of the most reviled professions. We're going to lose the battle every time.

We're obviously going to be looking for a bat, and everybody is always looking for pitching. It's the typical stuff -- a bat and some pitching.

Pascal Leclaire

We're playing with a lot of confidence right now. We won a lot of battles in front of the net and on the boards and I think that's why we won.

Gabe Kapler

When he swings the bat well, he?s fun to watch. There?s no better right-handed hitting batter in the league. You could make that case.

Phil Garner

When he swings the bat like we've seen the last couple of days, he very well could be that guy.

When he's out there on the mound, he's gonna give you everything he's got. Even if things aren't going well, he's gonna want to stay out there and battle through it. That's the kid of kid he is. He's got a lot of heart.

We feel like if we can get a pretty good offense together, we'll win some games. Pitching's been good all year long and the bats started coming around today, which is good because we've been talking about it way too much.

John Smith

We've got to win some matches to do it but if we go on and win that fourth, this is probably one of the more satisfying ones, I would say. I think each one gets much more satisfying. I think we had some up-and-downs and question marks. I think we gave a lot of hope during the season to some teams and then we had to battle up.

We've got to where we play pretty good defense. Of course, good pitching makes a good defense, too. I just know that on down the road that bat has to come alive, and that's what I'm working on.

Brian Jordan

We've got to regroup at home. We've got to win our way out. Every game is important, so you've got to battle back.