Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mark Hudson

He's got a high level of energy at all times. If you're not prepared to battle that energy level and that emotion, then they can get rolling on you and the next thing you know you're down double figures and you can't recover.

How many times are you going to battle back? Sometimes when they give us a lead we got to keep it or at least give them an opportunity to get us one and I haven't been doing that.

How much of the battle space can the Iraqi forces take over, and who is actually doing the fighting - those are the key measurements. The measure cannot be the elimination of the insurgency, as desirable as that would be. You cannot eliminate all of the bombings.

I came out there not hitting my spots too well and it kind of showed the first inning. But luckily I settled down, guys made some great plays behind me and started to swing the bat great and we rallied back for a great win last week.

Scott McNealy

I don't look at this as a battle between two companies, ... I look at this as a battle between the service provider and the systems administrator.

I don't like sitting back on the sidelines, ... During my 21 years in the police department, I got involved in just about everything there. I'm not some sort of rebel. I don't think everyone (currently on the commission) should be removed or anything. I just believe in my heart I have the qualifications to be on the City Commission of Battle Creek.