Famous Quotes & Sayings

At this point in the season, you've just got bring your best game. If a team spends time worrying about your opponent, then you can psyche yourselves out. You start winning the battles and hope you can win the war.

Dick Cheney

a few opportunists are suggesting they were sent into battle for a lie.

Douglas Brinkley

Administration policies seem to tacitly encourage those who live below sea level in New Orleans to relocate permanently, to leave the dangerous water's edge for more prosperous inland cities such as Shreveport or Baton Rouge.

Adrienne has been a stabilizing force for us much of the time in the outfield. Her bat is something that has really come on strong and has been very consistent. She is explosive, powerful and very dynamic on the offensive side.

The old story in antitrust cases is that the government wins the battle and loses the war. The question is: What do you get in relief?

After 90 minutes there were puddles of water all over the pitch. It was a real battle but nonetheless full of entertainment with every player giving their all.

After a hard day's of work,the night gives us an opportunity to take rest and relax. Thus, our batteries are re-charged and we are ready for the challenges of the next day.

After I threw my bullpen two days after that start, my leg was great. So there were no worries about that. My location just wasn't there at all today, for whatever reason. I'm doing the best I can to see if I can fight through it. After the first inning, I was hoping to just battle and give us five or six innings.

After four years of pitching, I've learned you've got to relax and you've got to be calm. I can get out of it. I knew I had to work one batter at a time. I just kept going and we got three outs. They didn't score.

After battling months of snow and icy roads, your car is undoubtedly in desperate need of some serious tender-loving care. A cleaner engine, for example, can give your car better performance -- ensuring less hesitation and smoother acceleration.

The most important thing for us is to realize that last season is over and this one is completely different. And that if we don't run or battle until the end we won't win anything,

David O. McKay

The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.

Actually we did very well. We were battling lousy weather. Our main thing was trying not to get hurt or sick.

Actually, the whole game we looked better hitting. We were swinging the bats a lot better. We had some good hits, they just made some good plays on it.

Jonathan Ogden

Strength is important. But the No. 1 thing is knowing your opponent. If you know your opponent and what they like to do, and you try to take that away from them, force them to another move, then that's half the battle right there.

Some day when you have time, look into the business of prayer, amulets, baths and poultices, and discover for yourself how much valuable therapy the profession has cast on the dump.

Keith Richard

Southern Illinois is in the same boat a little bit. When you play defensive battles such as this, every point is at a premium, the game could go either way. I'm not so much happy that we won here, but that we won.

So this has been a battle of ideas, ... This has been a battle of institutions. We recognize that there are certain fundamental things that you have to do collectively through government. But it is through the free market that the ingenuity of individual creators and enterprises flourishes.

Anson Carter

Special teams was huge for us. We worked on the power play a little bit this morning because we realized that was going to be a big focal point in the game, and the special teams battle ended up being what tipped the scales for us tonight.

Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy.

Now it's a lot better because the new ballparks, they've got batting cages next to the dugout. We did not hit a ball. Now, hitters go outside the dugout and hit off a tee.

Once we got the conference to a point where we wrapped it up, that's when we started thinking about the state tournament series. Whether these guys could make it or not? We're not an overpowering team, but we will battle you. I thought we could play with anybody, but we didn't really blow too many people out.

David Carr

Actually, I feel pretty good. I went home and sat in an ice bath with a snorkel, and I felt better after the second day.

Greg Chappell

We are obviously keen to win the game. The spirit in the group is excellent. We were happy with most of what we did in the first game. We were happy with our batting in the first game, which was pretty good. The fielding was good too. The bowlers did pretty good too.

We are still waiting for that day when we have a battery that has more capacity than it has right now.

We did a lot of things to put ourselves in position to win, but we just can't seem to make the big plays right now. The biggest problem we had was an inability to score runs. We only struck out four times in 21 plate appearances, which tells me we are putting the bat on the ball, but we are hitting it right at people.

Ken Hitchcock

We did a lot of better things; we played the same way for 60 minutes that we did for 45 minutes in Carolina. We played good. We fought really hard. Ottawa is a team that everyone talks about their speed, but to me it's about their competitiveness. Every board battle is critical.

We did a great job competing at the plate. ... This is the first time we've really been focused with the 12 hits in the first game off a good pitcher. We just need to keep battling and putting good quality at bats up.

We did a good job of battling back. It's tough, but we have 14 conference games left, and we're going to keep battling.

We did a fantastic job on defense today. We just have to get the bats going. Defensively, we can play with any team around.

We didn't play a game this week until (Friday) and we got in a lot of extra batting practice. We're making some good adjustments at the plate and we're using the whole field.

We didn't pitch very well or play defense very well. We swung the bats a bit better but when you don't pitch well and don't take care of the baseball, you're not going to win many games.

Mike Burns

We had problems focusing in this game. Montana did a good job changing defenses and we did a good job battling through that in the first half. In the second half they did essentially the same thing, but they did it with more energy than we did.