Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harper Lee

Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.

Ian Botham

Jacques Rudolph at the moment is using the inside edge as much as the middle of the bat.

He swung the bat really well. He's been struggling a little bit with his swing this past weekend. He did a great job today, so hopefully we're going to iron some things out with him.

He swings the bat well all the time and uses the whole field. That's why he's in that spot. We count on him to drive in runs, and he came through today.

Ozzie Guillen

He swings the bat real good at the right moment, especially when we need it.

Eric Munson

He threw a fastball and I got lucky. I think he hit my bat rather than me hitting the pitch.

Games like this, you have to give Columbus a lot of credit. They came out swinging the bats very aggressively. They got comfortable. That's what happens when you score a lot of runs, you start feeding off each other.

Paul Di Filippo

Generational change within a genre is hard to parse while it's happening. Only in retrospect can the passing of the baton from ancestors to progeny be clearly discerned.

Luc Robitaille

Good tip, wrong end, wrong time. As soon as it hit my stick, you just get that feeling where it's not good. Just more frustration. You battle hard to tie it up. Obviously a big game for us. To lose it that way, that's the game, I guess.

Ned Yost

Brady is seven days out and still four or five days away in the best-case scenario. Going into Houston another left-handed bat off the bench will help us.

Shaun Edwards

Brian Ashton is a very creative force. The Bath fans are in for a treat over the coming months.

Broome has a good squad. They always swing the bats hard.

Bowlers did a great job and I am pleasantly surprised at the capitulation of India's strong batting line-up.

Best team we've faced, no doubt. I told Sean that there was nobody in the conference better than them because they swung the bats real good.

O. Henry

Besides the second game yesterday, this about matched Georgia last weekend as far as how effective we were swinging the bats and getting runs in. Hopefully we're hitting on all cylinders here.

Everything I had to do - break the eggs, stir the batter - caused pain, but I wanted to do it.

Adam Kennedy

Everything is true, from what he's done in the Minors to what we saw in Spring Training. When you have that bat that can help your team, there has to be an upside to bringing him up.

Omar Vizquel

Every time I get a hit right now it means a lot because I'm not swinging the bat real well. I'm getting better, seeing more pitches and hopefully I can get in a groove.

Even though I haven't been doing so well this year, I like batting in the eighth spot. I was getting a little frustrated in the first couple weeks, because I know what I'm capable of doing at the plate. I came up as a productive hitter.

Anita Roddick

Be nice, for everyone that you meet is fighting a harder battle

Be prepared for a long battle to clear your name

Thomas Hood

Ben Battle was a soldier bold, / And used to war's alarms: / But a cannon-ball took off his legs, / So he laid down his arms.

Being the head recruiter, he knows the battles that we're up against. I'm just grateful that he's staying with it. He's got some other things in mind because he knows when we bring (recruits) here, until we get a new building, we have to spruce this up.

Blake's outing was slightly uncharacteristic, but he was able to battle through it and put us in a position to win.

Blake did what we needed him to do for us tonight. My nerves were a little shabby at the beginning of the game, but it's good to know that we have a guy that will go out and battle for us. He's going to give us a chance to win every time he takes the mound.

Birmingham is participating in a national programme of commemorations to mark the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar in October.

Phil Lewis

Every time, he had a new batch of stock.

Everybody understands that this (withdrawal) is the prelude to the big battle

David Wright

Everybody in this clubhouse wants to be in that situation with the game on the line, with the bat in their hands. I was fortunate to come up with guys on base.

Everybody would be better off if we could find a way to work together instead of battle in the courts. It's a lose-lose situation really to even go through the battle.

Everyone was getting a nice bat on the ball. They're starting to hit like I want them to hit. I told them we needed to win two of our next three to be one game from .500. Then the next half, hopefully we can peak and get everything going.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Every soldier carries a marshall's baton in his pack.

Every single game was a big game for us. And we didn't have an easy one. Every game was a battle for us.