Famous Quotes & Sayings

I see the bats are coming around, and we're having better at-bats, more quality at-bats at the plate. I'm not concerned about the offense. The offense will be there.

I see partnerships being built and people batting longer.

Is it going to be considered as an exception within the framework of the WTO, or are people at it going to say, 'Oh, this has been signed at UNESCO, but it does not touch our work.' This question will be at the heart of the battles to come,

William Story

I sing the hymn of the conquered, who fell in the Battle of Life,The hymn of the wounded, the beaten, who died overwhelmed in the strife.

Phil Garner

I've been saying for quite some time now that Lamb is going to have to be a big plus for us down this stretch drive, and he is starting to swing the bat like we've seen in the past. It was a big lift tonight. We don't know how much longer Morgan is going to be out, but if he (Lamb) can step up and swing with power like we know he can, I think that will help everybody's confidence a little bit.

Matt Holliday

I've been working on timing and getting my hands in the right position, just trying to get that feel back. It's hard to explain. You can do it in batting practice and you can do it in the cage, but to get in the game and to be able to settle your nerves a little bit and get in that mode when you can still get your swing off when the velocity picks up and you start facing off-speed pitches. I'm trying to find that rhythm, that timing.

Dick Vermeil

I've been with him through the lowest time of his career. I've helped him come off the field with a terrible injury and I've watched him battle back to the point where you're willing to give up a first-round pick to watch him play again.

Kieran Culkin

I've been watching a lot of Jack Nicholson's stuff because I realized the only things I'd seen him in were Batman and Mars Attacks.

I've been trying to tell him about all the little things that you have to deal with as battalion commander.

Max Biaggi

I've been trying hard all weekend, but I just couldn't go fast in the qualifying. But when it came time to race the problems were a little less and I was able to battle my way up.

Mel Stottlemyre

I've been here with Joe for 10 years and this has by far been the toughest year for him, and it's the best job he's done. He's done a good job year in and year out -- this year the job he's done was really special because he had a lot of things to battle through.

Brett Gardner

I've been playing up and down. Coming here, I had a way I had swung the bat all my life. We worked on my swing and changed things up a bit. It was tough, but now I'm getting used to it and am starting to improve.

Kyle Lohse

I've been out there battling my butt off all year,

I've been battling it out for nine years at this level (to get to 200 wins). But the Steelheads didn't make it any easier for me. This is a tough place to get a win.

Joe Borowski

I've been battling injuries the last two years, and I'm finally coming into camp feeling fantastic, 100 percent, no problems.

It would look like the very thing people aren't looking for this year from either party. Two politicians fighting out their own battles instead of fighting over how to solve people's problems,

It would only be a coup if the person who is a leader of a party leaves and becomes the leader elsewhere. I mean, what would you settle for if you are a leader of a party and you defect? No. 12 in the batting order? No. 15?

It would have been a very bitter, difficult battle which probably would have resulted in his not being confirmed, if history is a guide,

I used the end of my baton to try and wake the male because I could hear breathing, ... As I pushed on his right shoulder, I could distinguish that the breathing was coming from a second person on the other side of the bed on the floor.

I used my bat as a cane to get off the field. I took some slack for that.

Think about it: You go in for lunch, so why not more? Then there?s Bed Bath & Beyond. People are buying cooking utensils there as well as pasta and pasta sauces. The list goes on and on.

Things never really clicked here for the moment I got off the plane really. Seemed like I was on the back foot all weekend and things never came good to be honest. In the race I had a good battle with a few guys and went back and forth with Barros a few times then I overshot at the end of the straightaway and lost a few places. I feel I let my boys down here and don't feel good about it. I just want to make sure we come out of the gate fast in Sepang next week and put things straight.

Things like wireless, customers expect to just work. We need power management to just work, to make sure our laptop batteries work for longer than 15 minutes.

Corey Perry

Things like that happen in the game. There was a battle in the corner and it escalated. You've got to do what you've got to do.

Things like that are going to happen. They'd been battling the whole game. They beat me. I made a mistake, and they got me.

We weren't going to give her a three, no way . . . . But she hit those others, and you have to give them credit for battling their way back into it.

We were probably one batter away from knocking him out. But we let him off the hook and he settled down.

We were peaking at that time. Then we went flat. Nobody could really fill his shoes that the (San Francisco) Giants could give us in terms of a left-handed bat with power.

When Alicia tied the game it was just a classic battle between two great competitors.

We lost in our battle to save Terri, but we believe it is incumbent on us to redirect our efforts to saving the lives of the innocent, who every day are being targeted by the euthanasia cult.

Chris Johnson

We lost a tough match last night but I still think we played fairly well. I have to give these girls credit, we have played three matches in a row this week and all three we have had to battle to stay in. We are starting to get our offensive weapons tuned in a little better but still have a long way to go. Our defense and passing abilities have kept us in games so far this season.

Jim Wallis

We have to distinguish between people we can win over and those we can have a clear public conversation with. We are winning the battle on evangelical Christian college campuses; it's just under the radar. We can't give up on everybody. We have to take back the faith.

We will see more battles of the data.