Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Beltran

I can hit. I feel like I can swing the bat. I just feel like I can't run 100 percent. Swinging the bat is no problem. Just running.

I came within one batter of getting out of a pretty tough jam.

I am disappointed that James has decided to end his association with Bath Rugby and join London Irish, however I wish him well for the future.

I am becoming prouder each year at the growth and development of the Battle of the Bands. We have seen a lot of different genres of music represented at the competition and this year will undoubtedly be the same kind of musical diversity.

I am here to get ready for the season. My main objective is to throw good pitches. I want the guys to swing the bats and hit the ball. I was really happy for a while there, the fact I was getting ahead.

I am incredibly pleased with our performance this weekend. We knew going in this was a big weekend and our guys responded with a sweep. Today we just kept battling back and found a way to secure the sweep. This was just a great weekend of baseball.

Sheryl Crow

I am joining the more than 200,000 women who will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year. We are a testament to the importance of early detection and new treatments ... I am inspired by the brave women who have faced this battle before me and grateful for the support of family and friends.

Ozzy Osbourne

I bit the head off a live bat the other night. It was like eating a Crunchie wrapped in chamois leather.

He walked about a half hour, had his bath and is doing fine.

Jason Kendall

He used all his stuff on both sides of the plate. We had a good game yesterday. We didn't swing the bats well today.

He could impact a game in so many ways that he didn't always need to score. We don't often have a prolific scorer in our system. I was even able to hold Kenny Battle down to 18 points a game.

Glen Davis

He didn't make it. He was being transported to Baton Rouge General. He didn't make it I heard. I heard he passed in the ambulance.

Bruce Bochy

He didn't have a full tank. It's tough to pitch when you're not at full strength. He's still battling this thing. He hasn't gained all of his weight back.

Will Rogers

He can take a batch of words and scramble them together and leaven them properly with a hunk of oratory and knock the White House door-knob right out of a candidate's hand.

He can pitch. I saw him last summer in a wooden bat league. He's crafty, just like Cornelius. He's a competitor. When he gets on that mound, he wants to send that hitter to the dugout.

He deserves that chance. The way he swings the bat, I think he can handle it. His bat speed is tremendous.

He closed his eyes and just swung. He got the good part of the bat on it, and it was a deep shot.

Walt Whitman

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won

Phil Garner

He just took our bats and shoved them up our bat racks.

John Glover

He kept battling them. He didn't throw a lot of strikes but he got some big outs.

Greg carried us the whole game. He just took it upon himself. This is his senior year, his last home game at Battle Creek Central and he was determined not to let us lose.

Green has stepped up big time for us. She has called some great games and has also done tremendous at the plate. She was a walk-on in the fall and I didn't know what to expect out of her but she's done very well in stepping in for (junior catcher) Erin Zeller, who has been battling a shoulder injury.

Bob Riley

has been beaten and battered the last 24 hours.

Guys took their place and did a terrific job with the bats and we were pitching well. We don't have Scott back, but we have Larry and Reggie back. Both of those guys can handle a bat, so you don't push as much with them as you would with some of the other guys.

Dusty Baker

Guys tell me they sleep on the road a lot easier and better than they do at home, ... At home, you end up waking at 7:00 in the morning because you're used to getting up early. On the road, you're not worried about sleeping in and missing batting practice. You're always conscious here of oversleeping. You don't want to wake up in a panic, especially if it's cloudy or dark outside. If it gets sunny early, you're jumping out of bed and it could be 6 o'clock.

Half the battle is getting every player to realize how they are going to benefit the team and what they should do all of the time. Nikki knows what she's supposed to do. She comes in for two minutes, five minutes, whatever it may be, and she's physical, crashes the boards, grabs as many as she can, sets the screens. She knows it.

Stephen J. Cannell

So many people get involved with carrying grudges and having these moral battles with people, where they cast themselves as the righteous and the other guy is the dirtbag. They waste tons of energy on it, create all kinds of darkness around themselves and the other person. It gets you nothing.

Suki Waterhouse

I can stay in the bath for, well, the longest has been seven or eight hours. I get completely set up with my laptop so I can watch 'The Sopranos,' put out some scented candles, music. I have a towel nearby so I can dry my hand to change the music or the TV. I make a little heaven for myself. And then I just refill and refill.

This was a good win for us, even though our bats cooled off significantly. We failed to make some adjustments until late in the game, but we wanted to go into the vacation week at 3-0, and we accomplished that goal.

There are still people issues, and some power issues, and the industry is bruised and battered like everybody, ... But it's getting better every hour, and every day.

There are still a couple of spots people are battling for. It's still very, very early. It's a matter of getting experience.

There are so many moving parts right now. It's like watching someone walk through a bedroom in the dark. You're not sure if they're going to make it to the bathroom or stub their toe.

Daniel Bruhl

My special thing as a kid was to play dead because I thought I was really good at it. When I was 7 or 8, I even did it in the bathroom with a hair dryer in the bathtub. I realized that I was good at it because each time my mom would scream.