Famous Quotes & Sayings

In my mind if they had everyone on their roster from last year we'd be in a battle for second place.

Chad Cordero

I never thought I would do what I did last year. This year it's a lot different. I know my role, but I've still got to go out there and work hard and battle and show that last year wasn't a fluke.

In fact, over the past week, it was a veritable blood bath for commodity prices.

I never thought we would hit like this. But I'm glad to see that my 400 or so pitches in batting practice and my sore body paid off.

In every company's history, there is a time when it is appropriate to pass the baton and give a new management team the opportunity to lead, and that time has come at McDonald's,

I guess my job, ... is to come out and do well in batting practice.

Patrick Long

I had a good start and was able to negotiate the traffic to keep the car in the lead. The car was handling great and the Porsche power was keeping me out front. When the caution came on lap 30 we had just passed pit entry and we were beaten to the stop by a few cars. The team did a fast pit stop and Mike was able to make up ground. He was the man on the last lap, a great battle and a great win for the team.

If there was something else to do, then the bat houses had to wait.

It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more battles than any other general on the other side of the Atlantic; but there was never a time during my command when I would not have chosen some settlement by reason rather than the sword.

It ended up being a battle -- I'm sure that's what it's going to be for the whole series. Everybody's pretty fired up. It was like a playoff game.

Ross Detwiler

I just didn't go out there and get it done. Their bats had been down all weekend, and today they hit really well. I didn't make the pitches when I needed to.

Tommy Bowden

I just figured the battle on the odds had run out

Gotye

I quite clearly remember driving home at 9 a.m., after shooting all day, in a bathrobe, with bodypaint all over my face, and going through McDonald's drive-thru. I ordered a coffee to make sure I didn't crash on the way home. And the girl working there, she didn't even bat an eyelid. I guess it's a regular thing down in Hastings McDonald's.

I put them on every door I could find bathroom doors, everywhere.

But you don't want to make your spouse's battles yours. You might have opinions, but ultimately it's your spouse who's in charge of his or her working life . . . and it's his or her family.

Richard Codey

Clearly Bush has recognized that New Jersey public officials are battle tested,

Clinton will be a solid; I expect a battle like the second-round playoff game.

Dennis Quaid

Clinton knew how to get things done. He was battling the Republicans, and then he basically took a lot of their agenda and made it his own. That's what Obama's not doing.

Being a Longhorn, we fight a lot of battles in NFL locker rooms defending our program, ... We are constantly defending ourselves. I understand it, because during my time at Texas, the only team that was close to us in talent was Oklahoma. With them, player for player, it was extremely close in talent. I think it's just a matter of time until we get over the hump.

Jacque Jones

I haven't felt good about my batting average. I'm sick about it. I can't stand it. I know I'm much better than a .250 hitter.

I have to say that in the case of Ratko Mladic we are waging a double battle -- with time and with the fact that the fugitive general is hiding himself very well.

Felipe Alou

I haven't talked to him. The only information I have has come from the medical people. I don't believe he's doing a whole lot right now. But probably swinging the bat like he always does.

Justin Morneau

I haven't swung that small a bat since I was in high school, but I figured it was working for him so I might as well try it, too. I told him I wanted to use his, because they have hits in them. He hasn't broken any bats this year, but I've broken six of his. But I figure as long as I keep getting hits, I can keep using them.

Adam Kennedy

I really think it's all in your head. I always say it's just the bat and the ball. If you're a good hitter, you're a good hitter.

I really felt like they fed off of each other and kept wanting to be better every shift. Each line just started to battle a little bit more, a little bit more, a little bit more.

I really expect some sophomores to give some seniors a real battle for starting jobs.

Tony Campos

I really liked how we swung the bats today. It's nice that we don't have to rely on the same three or four girls to get it done every time. Everyone in our lineup is hitting very well right now, which is very important to our success.

I really liked how we started the fourth quarter. Things were not going our way to end the third quarter. We were not getting all the calls. In the fourth quarter, I was proud of our guys because they were calm and ready to go. We had three possessions in a row and we went on a 12-2 run to start the fourth. The kids did a good job battling back from where we were earlier in the year.

I put it all to music and put it on the scoreboard during batting practice.

Adrian Beltre

I prefer to hit 3-4-5, but I'll do whatever the club needs. I started the season in 2004 hitting seventh, and that didn't work out too bad. By the end of the year I was batting fourth.

In training this week we have talked about the dropped catches, which ruined our chances. The batting of the St Catherine team... they have a good batting line-up with Tamar Lambert and others. They'll be coming gunning. They have won outright, so it should be a good match.

Ichiro Suzuki

In the second half of the 2003 season -- actually, I'd include the 2002 season in this -- I started to struggle as I approached the 200-hit mark. As I got closer to the goal, I lost control of that part of batting and sort of lost focus.

Adam Kennedy

In the playoffs, you're going to see good pitching so it's going to take everybody. But having Garret swing the bat like that will be big for us.