Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Mauer

You start feeling it's late, it's been a long year, ... You just try to battle through it. You have to fight through that and catch another second wind.

Your house is the biggest, best investment you will make in your lifetime. You should give it a good bath when it gets dirty.

Tim Kaine

You're not going to have a 1.000 batting average, but the way you get votes is, you just push and you push. I'm not afraid to do that.

You're not going to be able to win in this conference or this division unless you win the physical battles because of the teams we have to play against,

Andy Reid

You're going to have these types of games and it's important that you battle through it. It's not going to be 42-3 every week. You've got to have the wherewithal in you to battle back and our guys did that.

Jason Spezza

You're going to get down in games and you have to learn to battle back to win them and we did.

Arlen Specter

You really wonder with all the tremendously important issues that the court faces ... that the woman's right to choose dominates the scene, but it does, ... That's the principal battle line which is present.

You might find your battery is not up to that.

B. F. Skinner

You pretty much have to throw pretty soccer out the window at this level any way. Nobody wants to make a mistake and the players are a little nervous. It's hard to settle in. We're going to have to battle for 80 minutes.

This is a smart team. When you tell them something, they go out and do it or at least try to do it. It was a credit to our seniors. Christina didn't have a good shooting night but had a good floor game. For some reason, we all battle it. You kind of forget what got you there.

This is a senior-group of ballplayers, and they have put in their dues as far as getting themselves prepared and it's good to sit and watch them play. They play good defense, they're so competitive at the plate, and they all want to hit it every time, and sometimes you have to push them up there when they're not having a good at-bat but most of the time they put the bat on the ball.

This is essentially a battle for the control of the American payment system.

If you can't manage in the bathroom safely, you're not going to be able to live independently.

Marcus Trescothick

If we can bat well and those two can get away they can give us a good chance,

If we bat first and collapse, we would consider pulling a bowler out and introducing an extra batsman.

If we want to win, we have to win the battle in front of the net. It's tough when a big guy is in front of the net, it's tough to defend it. It's all positioning. If you're smaller, you have to be a little smarter.

If you do something so often, you get used to it. Playing back-to-back games battle tests a team.

Mike Connolly

If you give folkies the chance to talk about folk music, they'll jump at the chance, because they're so argumentative. They never shut up. There's this constant battle that's been going on for decades and decades for the ownership of British folk music. The arguments seem to be an integral part of it. Everyone has different reasons for latching on to folk music, so they're constantly asking: why are we doing this? Why is this important?

If you get behind early, it's like battling 60-mile per hour winds in the last few tournaments. We really need to be within 10 strokes of second after the first two rounds if we want a real chance to get in the regional tournament.

If you could get a device that had enough capacity to be interesting, with good battery life and cool form factor, and sell (it) for $50, this market will explode. It's pretty easy to imagine a flash-based device in a year or two hitting those kinds of price points.

Doug Armstrong

If you have two guys who are battling hard, who are in an emotional game and who drop the gloves, to me that's a 'hockey fight,' and I have no problem with that. But if you have two guys who go out on the ice looking for someone to fight, and it has little to do with the game, there's really no reason for that.

Garrett Temple

If you go down to New Orleans in the poorer places, you still see things that are unimaginable. We were so lucky in Baton Rouge. We gave up our time, our homes, to help.

In the spring of 1957, Mickey Mantle was the king of New York. He had the Triple Crown to prove it, having become only the 12th player in history to earn baseball's gaudiest jewel. In 1956, he had finally fulfilled the promise of his promise, batting .353, with 52 homers and 130 RBIs. Everybody loved Mickey.

J. F. C. Fuller

In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.

In the last 96 hours, we have shipped 440,000 sheets of plywood into the west coast of Florida, 30,000 generators, 1.2 million batteries and 150 truckloads of flashlights. Those are some of the items that are just flying off the shelves right now.

In the end it was a good toss to lose because the wicket got better for batting on the third day.

David Suzuki

In the environmental movement . . . every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.

In spite of conventional wisdom to the contrary, in our view, Sun has a future and, potentially a very bright one. We see the passing of the baton as affirmation that Sun can move into a strategic harvesting phase combined with focus on streamlined cost structure.

It was great. Especially since I had a chance to get it the previous at bat but grounded into a double play.

It was great to see us swing the bats a little better today. Fourteen hits is a much better effort, but we still have to work on converting our opportunities.

It was great to see us battle like that.

John Gibbons

It was just one of those nights. They swung the bats and we didn't pitch as well as we will.

Mark Recchi

It was just one of those nights early on. It's just hard. We kept battling and that's the one great thing about our team right now. We definitely don't quit. But we have to find ways to be better and not get ourselves in such big holes here.