Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Ellis

If I could figure out this team, I'd be a genius. We're all either swinging the bat well at the same time, or not.

Nobu Matsuhisa

If I am at home in L.A. on a Saturday or Sunday, I like to start the day with a hot bath and then do an hour of stretching.

If I found a bat in my yard, me and my roommates might pin it up to our fence.

If he does that, he will demonstrate national leadership, ... He will put an end to this little rebellion, and there will be no battle on the floor of the convention.

If Grace stomps to the clubhouse, fires his batting helmet, ... I'm probably going to lose every veteran on the team.

If everything were perfect, that would have been nice. But we're not quite there yet. There are four guys in there, they're battling tooth and nail.

I feel like our kids are battling their tails off every night.

If I know who I'm batting after, who's batting before me, I can better prepare for what I'm going to need to do or what's going to be expected of me in my at bat.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If I had believed in a God of rewards and punishments, I might have lost courage in battle

If I'm already abusing laxatives, extra trips to the bathroom probably aren't going to concern me very much. This drug might be abused.

I definitely want to build my batting average. I also think I can start running more this year. I've always wanted to be put in that position and to hit and run more.

Phil Garner

I'd hoped they would try to be cautious with him and maybe throw something up there and make a mistake and let him hit the ball. They took the bat out of his hands, which I hoped they wouldn't do.

Ray Allen

I caught a couple of stingers out there. It's been a long time since I swung a bat, and it was an aluminum bat way back then.

Scott Gordon

I don?t think there were any messages being sent. I just think it was intense. In the heat of the battle the adrenaline?s flowing and that?s the way it is.

I don't think there was a huge momentum shift. They just got some goals and we had to battle like hell to win.

Ned Yost

I don't think there is a guy I would more want to see up there in that situation than Carlos because he's been swinging the bat so well.

Reed Johnson

I don't think that this group really has to talk about it too much. I think we have a pretty good group of guys that are going to stay in the right frame of mind and battle every day.

Elizabeth Taylor

I don't talk about it. But when I was a little girl, my father was abusive when he drank and seemed to kind of like to bat me around a bit, ... I don't blame him at all. I know he was drunk when he did it. I know he didn't mean to do it.

I don't think Capote knew exactly what he was setting himself up for. He said later if he'd known what was going to happen, he would have driven right through the town like a bat out of hell.

Kimi Raikkonen

I am prepared to battle together with the team as much as we did in Japan, and more if necessary, to get the result we need. It is going to be an exciting race.

I am pleased with how they fought back from a very stressful and distressing day number one. I am really pleased with the courage, tenacity and toughness we had mentally to battle our way back from zero points a third of the way through the meet and still finish 18th.

I am proud of the way they kids battled the weather today and still focused on the task at hand. I was happy with the way we swung the bats and we got some great pitching out of all three of our pitchers. We have a short turnaround now before our next game, but we are off to a great start. We just have to keep it going now.

I am proud of our guys because I really thought they maintained their focus for five straight days. Winning cures a lot of ills. It is lot easier to play when you're winning and you are swinging the bat and people feel good about themselves. Losing is a hard thing. I want it to not be fun when you lose.

Ehud Barak

I am not sure any more that we must truly be worried and I don't know whether this Patriot battery must truly be bothered,

I am not worried about our hitting. We're going to be fine. We've got some guys that swing the bat up and down the lineup. It's just one of those things where we really haven't got going yet. We have had some opportunities, but just haven't come through yet but that's just part of the game. It's obviously a little more glaring when you start the season that way.

I feel confident. All season we've gone day-to-day, you forget about yesterday. Now there's no tomorrow. These guys battle all the way, you saw that in the last inning tonight.

Brad Wilkerson

I feel all right, my swing just doesn't feel quite right. In batting practice you can get away with a lot of stuff, but a game is different. I just want to get it calmed down and have the feeling mentally that I can go out and perform.

Laynce Nix

I don't want to say no, because I could be. Right now I'm where I need to be. I'm getting more confident doing my regular exercises, swinging the bat feels good and my throwing program is coming along.

I don't think this season is a disappointment. But of course we're disappointed that we didn't make the NCAA Tournament. But this season isn't a disappointment at all, especially from where we've had to battle through (adversity) the whole season and where we've come back from last year.

Mike Catt

He's not a rugby man. Bath didn't want me, so I had no choice but to leave.

Jay Moore

He's not mobile, and he kind of slings the ball. He doesn't get his passes up real high. Hopefully, we can get some hands up and get a chance to bat down some balls.

He's not even supposed to be on it (running). He's battling through a lot of pain. It's bad. It was a tear, and he's back on it. He was out two weeks last month, a full two weeks. Him hurt doesn't help us, but we're trying to get every-thing we can out of him, and he's trying to give us everything he has.

He's off to a great start at bat and on the field.