Famous Quotes & Sayings

Somebody is going to win. This is going to be the ultimate experience right off the bat for them.

Janet Jackson

Some of my battles with weight have been very public. But most of them have been internal. Even at my thinnest, when my body was being praised, I wasn't happy with what I saw in the mirror or how I felt about myself.

Rahul Dravid

Shuffling of batting order will depend on strategy and other conditions but the post-mortem of the Test series shows that we will have to play the key players in the positions suited to them.

Shoot, hopefully these two miracles in one week, and then today, battling back, will springboard us into just playing good team ball.

Shields gives us a consistent bat and she'll bat somewhere near the top of the lineup. It was a big loss last year when she went down, so we're looking forward to having her back.

Adolf Galland

The battle is tough but if you reach where you want to go, then at least in some sense it is worth it.

Colleen Hoover

Choose your battles, but don't choose very many.

Don Mattingly

I like being close to the bats.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless.

Doug Stanhope

I go on stage, it's like I'm leading you into battle; you are not all going to be here at the end.

John Jay

The deal right now is our perimeter defense. We battle for a while and the lack of depth and height is killing us. Guys are trying, but the guys we are trying to stop are the lead guys in the conference. And Lamar always took that assignment. We've been vulnerable there.

The fact that we have something to work at, like battling somebody in a pennant race, means that pride will step in for us. It will force us to play hard and focus on the game.

The exhibit is about the people of Rochester, it's not about the battle or the weapons, ... These are all veterans who lived in the community before or after the war.

We'll have four times as many characters (up to 180 employees playing characters) as we had before. A child shaking hands with Batman is just as valuable (to the child) as getting a ride on one of these coasters.

We'll start looking for a bat now. I don't really have a timetable. I'm not concerned about when, I'm just concerned about who. I don't have any preference on today or tomorrow or next month.

We'll sit down and watch tomorrow to see if he was tipping. We really don't know. You get in the heat of battle and things happen. He might have been squeezing his glove on a slider or squeezing it on a fastball. We don't know.

Roger Clemens

What I featured out there is not good enough to get it done. It just seemed like I was pitching out of the stretch a lot. I tried to battle and make pitches and be as stingy as I could ... but they broke it open.

What we see now is a battle between a new economy and an old economy.

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.

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?

Geoff Johns

I am always a sucker for the underdogs. I love Batman and Superman, but when it comes to the guys who don't stand in the front of the line, Aquaman is one of the key guys for me. He's so much fun to work on.

Sharon Stone

There was a point in my 40s when I went into the bathroom with a bottle of wine, locked the door, and said, 'I'm not coming out until I can totally accept the way that I look right now.'

Warren G

I had an apartment on Long Beach Blvd and San Vicente in Long Beach, California. That was the apartment I done 'Regulate' in. I had all my equipment set up in the bedroom, a vocal booth in the bathroom and in the closet, and that's where we created it. I had an MPC 60, a Numark mixer, and a Technics 1200, and a ton of records.

Wolfgang Petersen

We like Batman - we understand him, we suffer with him. On the other hand, we want to be Superman. But they're conflicting philosophies. Let's bring them together in one movie and see how we, as an audience, wrestle with our inner demons.

Ben Carson

I'm very hopeful that I'm not the only one who's willing to pick up the baton of freedom, because freedom is not free, and we must fight for it every day. Every one of us must fight for it, because we're fighting for our children and the next generation.

Tony Gwynn

The only thing I do to my bat is put some tape around the handle to build it up a little bit because I broke my finger about six years ago and can't really close it the way I want to. Other than that, the same bat, same Louisville Sluggers.