Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Bochy

At that point, Sean was our left-handed bat off the bench,

At this point in the season, you've just got bring your best game. If a team spends time worrying about your opponent, then you can psyche yourselves out. You start winning the battles and hope you can win the war.

Coming in here, we knew what kind of battle to expect and they brought it but then we weren't ready.

B. F. Skinner

Coming back to Battle Creek for the finals is really a dream come true for me. I really hope to see a lot of old friends, wrestlers I've coached and family.

Lewis Carroll

Do cats eat bats? - Do bats eat cats?

Jim Lee

Costumes are all about identifying which force in a conflict you're on. That's where banners and flags came from - so people rushing into battle knew who to follow and who was on their side.

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Cooley is a winner. He's a feisty midfielder that plays bigger than his size. He will battle to win balls, and his work ethic makes him a good fit with the rest of our midfielders.

CORPORAL, n. A man who occupies the lowest rung of the military ladder.Fiercely the battle raged and, sad to tell, Our corporal heroically fell! Fame from her height looked down upon the brawl And said: ""He hadn't very far to fall."" --Giacomo Smith

Courtney has to get a little more mentally strong on the mound. She's played a lot of competitive softball, but she never got hit as hard as she's getting hit right now. What's happened is it's mentally bothering her. She's thinking, 'Why am I getting hit so hard?' She needs to understand that in Division I, the (Nos.) 1 to 9 hitters are good hitters, it's not just 1 to 5 that's tough. Once she gets a batter on (base), and another, then there's a little bit of a breakdown, and mistake pitches happen.

Sourav Ganguly

Credit to them, they played very well. It was not an easy wicket to bat on early on - but they played like real champions.

Rich Rodriguez

As I mentioned to some folks last night. There's a lot of good football teams in the Big East and we had some very competitive battles with them and we'll continue to have those the next several years.

This, they say, is the definitive battle for Samarra.

There have been no battles to move immigration in the direction the public wants. The battles have all been about the leaders pushing the other way.

Washington State is a team that should be ranked and is very good. We had a tough battle with them last year and I expect the same this year. They have a tough No. 1 who is ranked very high nationally and they also have some big hitters down the line-up.

Wars will be increasingly more hypocrite, they will pass from the classical battle field to informatics systems counting new eases to be built or that are already built in secret, where there will be rockets with increasingly greater destruction potential.All this are a part of the future and of the present of mankind, precisely because no nation wants to be trampled by those who rule mankind leading it to an increasing misery. In a world where many do not even know what to do with so much luxury and fortune, people are starving or dying on the streets, some even on the steps of the churches that promise them a better life in heavens, omitting to say that the earthly one may be improved if precisely the churches did not support the world order that is so unfair and makes so many victims nowadays.

Bob Feller

There has always been cheating going on in pitching and hitting. As far as cheating, using a wooden bat and flattening the hitting surface, that has always been going on. ... It is usually discovered in pretty good time.

There has always been a trade off between battery life and performance, and while dual core doesn't close the gap, it significantly narrows it.

Greg Chappell

We are obviously keen to win the game. The spirit in the group is excellent. We were happy with most of what we did in the first game. We were happy with our batting in the first game, which was pretty good. The fielding was good too. The bowlers did pretty good too.

We are still waiting for that day when we have a battery that has more capacity than it has right now.

We did a lot of things to put ourselves in position to win, but we just can't seem to make the big plays right now. The biggest problem we had was an inability to score runs. We only struck out four times in 21 plate appearances, which tells me we are putting the bat on the ball, but we are hitting it right at people.

Ken Hitchcock

We did a lot of better things; we played the same way for 60 minutes that we did for 45 minutes in Carolina. We played good. We fought really hard. Ottawa is a team that everyone talks about their speed, but to me it's about their competitiveness. Every board battle is critical.

We did a great job competing at the plate. ... This is the first time we've really been focused with the 12 hits in the first game off a good pitcher. We just need to keep battling and putting good quality at bats up.

We did a good job of battling back. It's tough, but we have 14 conference games left, and we're going to keep battling.

We did a fantastic job on defense today. We just have to get the bats going. Defensively, we can play with any team around.

We didn't play a game this week until (Friday) and we got in a lot of extra batting practice. We're making some good adjustments at the plate and we're using the whole field.

We didn't pitch very well or play defense very well. We swung the bats a bit better but when you don't pitch well and don't take care of the baseball, you're not going to win many games.

Mike Burns

We had problems focusing in this game. Montana did a good job changing defenses and we did a good job battling through that in the first half. In the second half they did essentially the same thing, but they did it with more energy than we did.

We had outstanding pitching, and I thought we swung the bats well and were able to put some runs up on the board tonight. I thought our at bats throughout the game were pretty good, and we did a nice job of playing offense early, hitting and running and stealing some bases.

We had our opportunities there at the end of the game and you have to give the kids credit for battling back there in the seventh.

We have definitely improved on our hitting. We have put our bat on the ball, executed the plays and the calls. They have definitely improved offensively, all the way around.

We have definitely been in some battles together, lots of playoff games won,

Brian Greene

As scientists, we track down all promising leads, and there's reason to suspect that our universe may be one of many - a single bubble in a huge bubble bath of other universes.