Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jenny has been a real inspiration in her battle to come back and Cyndi has done an outstanding job. I think we're playing pretty well at this point.

Brad Ausmus

Jeff's very realistic. If he comes in here and two weeks into it he can't swing the bat or he's back to where he was last year, swinging the bat and it turns to pain, I think he would say, 'I'm not able to play.' Barring that, I think he has every intention of playing this entire year.

Jason has the mental makeup and, to me, that's a huge part of it when you start thinking about double-jumping guys. It's 60-40 we will do it. It depends on the way he swings the bat in spring training.

Jess plays the whole game inside and battles hard. She?s just a warrior.

Joe Girardi

Jim is a guy who played a long time in the big leagues. Every day he had to battle to fight for every hit he got. I like that, guys who have battled through adversity.

Koizumi has made the party his after four years of often fierce and difficult battles with his opponents within.

Last week we did not swing the bat well. Today we were having good at-bats. From a coaching standpoint we're swinging a lot better.

John Grahame

I think everybody came out and did a tremendous job. It's going to be a battle every night and we have to be ready for that.

Sam Taylor-Wood

I suppose I didn't cry in all the cancer crap stuff because I felt I couldn't lose the battle, and part of the battle was holding myself together.

Alfonso Soriano

I saw the bat, so I slide with my hand. If the bat is not there, I slide with my feet first.

Felipe Alou

I saw him hit 10 home runs in 40 at bats one spring training. If he's in spring training mode, watch out.

I see more soldiers daily than I did as a battalion commander.

I said, 'I want to talk to someone big,' ... Ten minutes later, we were with the battalion commander.

Sean Kelly

I respected Greg a lot. We had some real ding-dong battles - especially in that 1983 Tour of Lombardy.... The finish was so close.

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all

Mike Lowell

People just yell at you more. You hit a line drive in batting practice and they're going crazy. It's actually a good feeling.

People just don't understand how we battle and how hard we try to win,

Sutherland has a nice team. They've got size, we had trouble battling them on the boards. We rely on the outside shot and tonight it wasn't always clicking for us.

Bill Belichick

Statistically, we're fighting an uphill battle when we're on the negative turnover ratio and winning games, especially on the road, ... That's not normally the correlation. ... Right now, we're in a little bit of a dry spell.

Stephen was able to bat in the match but it will be 24 hours before we know the extent of the injury.

Jay Feaster

Some of the guys who are coming in here battling for jobs didn't do themselves any favors today. You're not going to win a job (in the first two days of camp), but certainly you can dig yourself a crater and we have some guys who are are looking for ladders right now.

Johnny Damon

Some guys haven't gotten into the mode of swinging the bats real well.

Some guys are pressing. I don't know if it's the young guys or the old guys, the batter or the pitchers, but we are pressing a little.

That baton was handed to them and now they have to hand off the baton to the juniors. It's tradition and they've picked it up and ran with it.

My own view is that we probably will not get any of the individuals who are the very top of the Democrats' hit list, ... I think he's going to try to repeat his experience with John Roberts ? someone who can be confirmed without touching off battle royale.

Jason Marquis

My offense picked me up tonight, my defense picked me up tonight. You're going to have nights like that. You just battle through them.

Napa offers substantially improved performance at the same time that we have this better battery life.

Derek Jeter

Names don't win games. We have to go out and swing the bats more. You don't want to fall behind this club because their bullpen is pretty good.

Mike Tice

My wife is going to go back and forth for the first year... so it's going to be a tough go for us. This will be a challenge for our family, but we'll battle our way through it.

My mother is with her sister in Arkansas, my brother is in Baton Rouge with his wife's family and my sister who just walked in is here with me,

David Wright

Look, I started off batting seventh last year, so to me it was great that Willie started trusting me, moving me up a little at a time. People tell me all the time, 'You should be ticked off where you're hitting.' But I'm not, not at all.

Thomas Campbell

Lochiel, Lochiel! beware of the day / When the Lowlands shall meet thee in battle array!

Robert Blake

Let me just talk for a minute. Geraldo Rivera did a whole show about a custody battle that didn't exist. There were lies that went on all over the place, ... I did what I was supposed to do: I didn't talk. I shut up, shut up. Then, I was locked up. And while I was in here for six or seven months -- whatever it was -- I was told not to talk, again.