Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm in Houston right now, getting ready to go to a farm in Lake Charles. I left my mom and my grandmother and her blind friend in a hotel lobby in Baton Rouge, so I've got to get them up to the farm. I grabbed my guitar, my dog and my girlfriend and got out. That was all I could do. I've got nothing left besides a little cash in my back pocket. It will take months for me to figure out a semblance of what to do.

I'm not sure how he'd know that, he didn't bat for long enough in Perth to know that.

I'm not one to feel that you have to open doors with your elbows and cover your hands. But you should wash your hands whether you use a public bathroom or a private bathroom.

I'm glad to see us swing the bat well. We were able to cover up our mistakes by scoring a lot of runs. Until we can figure out how to field the ball, we better keep swinging the bat.

I'm glad I gave up baton twirling for basketball.

I'm going to find somebody, I told Tony when we had a meeting. It's an ongoing battle and it's not easy, but you have to want it to do it, and I want to do it.

Ozzie Guillen

I'm not going to take the bat out of his hands like I did last year. He gave himself up once or twice a game, and that's why I want to drop him down in the lineup. He is a great RBI man and this will give him a chance to hit more home runs.

I'm not going to re-fight the battles of the past,

Kirk Gibson

Everybody has bad at-bats -- except McCutchen.

Kim Campbell

I know Quebecers don't want to relive old battles; they prefer to build for the future.

Becky Hammon

We have a lot of veterans on this team; we know what it's going to take. We're ready for battle ... I guarantee we are going to leave it out on the floor.

Donald Stewart

We have a bunch of good kids on this team. We had to battle a lot of injuries, and we could never put it all together, but I am proud of them.

We had to change a boys' bathroom to a girls' room every day at 1 o'clock.

Tommy Amaker

We had to battle our way through with Miami. They were a tough, scrappy bunch, and they fought until the end.

We had to battle in that first game. We were down 10-2 but got the bats going. Everyone stepped up.

We had to battle from behind all game long. And these girls just kept coming. They never quit.

We had to battle back and we brought home a win.

This was kind of a character test for us to see if we'd battle back, and we did.

This way we'll still have his bat in the lineup everyday. He does it all, so we're going to need him.

This weekend will dictate a lot of what happens to us this year in the conference. These are a couple of teams we will be battling with all season to make the tournament.

Those three kids have swung consistent bats all spring and they came through with those doubles all in a row. That was some great hitting.

Marty Turco

Those points put us pretty much where we are, away from the pack that's battling for the playoffs.

Aaron Hill

This team's always been good at even if we don't win battling back and not giving away at-bats. We kept in there and ended up on top.

This was the major battle ground in the negotiations and we have won.

Fernando Alonso

This was a very different race to the other two so far this season. In Bahrain, I was fighting with Michael Schumacher all the way and in Malaysia it was Jenson Button and I battling for second place, but in Melbourne it was quite comfortable. There were no fights and I was very relaxed for a lot of the race.

This was a triumph for him here briefly, and he thought he was on a roll, ... Then he discovered as he moved south into New York that things were not going to go so easily for him. He was outmanned and outmaneuvered at the two battles of Saratoga and he was forced to surrender.

This was a total team effort tonight. We won the battle on the boards (48-32) and I thought we really executed our offense well down the stretch.

This was a defensive battle between two teams that pride themselves in defense. There weren't many open shots, and there weren't any transition baskets. And both teams, because of the defensive intensity, had trouble finding a rhythm.

They just kept battling and working hard. I think that was the key.

They just keep battling and battling and battling. When they work hard, good things happen for them.

They just beat us in every facet of the game. They swung the bats and scored a lot of runs.

They let us off with one there. We were lucky. Our bats came around for us in the late innings and that helped us out a little.

Jerramy Stevens

It was huge. We've lost that battle the past few games. It was the fruits of our labor, man -- we got on their side of the field and we were able to score. It's proof positive that if we win the field-position battle, we have a much better chance of winning the game.