Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Carson

There's no other time in the year where commercials can take center stage. Commercials are always the things that are playing when you're going to the bathroom or grabbing a soda from the fridge.

Alex Tanguay

(There's) lots of frustration. We're going to have to battle harder. That power play's got to get going. Right now I think we just have to settle down and practice hard. Some of us are not playing very well. I expect more out of myself, especially on that power-play unit.

There's one moment with my mother that sticks out in my mind, ... She was battling cancer. She'd already had chemotherapy and her hair was falling out. I was walking home from high school. My mother was sitting on the front porch with the radio on. She was singing a song called 'Noah, Noah' by a Latin singer named Juan Gabriel. I started singing and dancing with her, and I could see that she was happy despite the pain. That was a very special moment for me. That's the best memory I have of my mother.

Rahul Dravid

The track was a good wicket to bat on and was a bit slow. It was a similar kind of wicket we might get in Tests as well,

The top six or seven guys in our batting order are really getting the job done. This was a good win.

I started thinking about the game in school (Tuesday). If you're batting third, it's your job to drive in some runs. I needed to step it up.

I spoke to Kookaburra this morning and they said we could use the bats during the one-day series not the Test matches.

I spent my four years cringing each time I had to run and like it as the Confederate battle flag waved. I was proud of my school and the school spirit, but I despised being represented by a symbol that stood for minority oppression.

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.

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.

Taylor Dent

The problem I'm battling with is the consistency. I can serve four aces one game and come out the next game, hit a couple of double faults, not make any first serves and get broken.

The puck was right there on the goal line and I just tried to bat it out of there with my hand, and I guess that's illegal.

Jeff Kinney

When I started writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I was trying to write the type of book you might enjoy, put back on your shelf, and rediscover a few years later. I hope that the book finds its way into the bathroom of every kid in America.