Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Eric Chavez

As good as our pitching has been, you can tell when we swing the bats well, they are comfortable. When we're not swinging the bats, they are not too comfortable on the mound. Hitting will really dictate how well we do the last month.

John Keegan

As contact with the enemy draws nearer, anticipation sharpens into fear. Its physical effects are striking. The heart beats rapidly, the face shines with sweat and the mouth grows dry - so dry that men often emerge from battle with blackened mouths and chapped lips.

Suresh Raina

As an international batsman, I have to come out to bat under any situation. Sometimes a platform has been laid; on others, we have to build one. That's part of our job, and that's why international cricket is so challenging.

As a team, you feed off each other. We've really started to swing the bats well here in the last couple of weeks.

Derek Jeter

Before everyone anoints this the greatest offense ever, let us play a little while first. The names don't win games. You have to go out there and perform, and we really haven't swung the bats well.

Gary Numan

Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.

Joe Torre

His batting practice has been better. Again, it's so tough coming in here as late as he did and being thrown into the mix.

His batting is one of the positives we had from the match. He batted superbly.

Chris Chambliss

His bat speed is as good as I've ever seen it. But it isn't a matter of getting back to where he was 13 years ago. It's a matter of being the best that he can be right now, and he is.

His bat is his biggest tool. We have been trying to work on his catching fundamentals -- receiving blocking, throwing. It looks like we can work with something there. He's an interesting player because he brings a lot of offense to that position.

Willie Randolph

His hands have been good. I like his approach, I like that he's willing to take a walk. He has a certain poise at the plate with some bat speed at the end of his swing.

His grandfather had always wanted to see (Jeramy) play football for Cathedral. (Schmitt's grandfather) finally got that chance and, even though he was battling cancer at the time, he worked up enough energy to come watch us play. It was special for Jeramy.

Eden Phillpotts

His father's sister had bats in the belfry and was put away.

Chris didn't have his best stuff but he really battled out there. We had some big defensive players and had some kids battle at the plate.

Christina bats seventh on this team. That's the type of hitting team we have. The bottom of the line-up is doing real well for us.

That's a big battle for us. This is one of those things, as a defensive line, and as a defense that wants to get itself over the hump, you look for games like this ... You've got a lot to prove.

That's a battle for us. That's what we're dealing with here in the Dominican Republic and Latin America.

Mark Brunell

That remains to be seen. I do know for us we're battle tested.

That's a credit to these girls that so many things didn't go their way, yet they kept battling and had opportunities to win. We played hard, just not well.

Michael Vaughan

That kind of score is difficult to chase, if you are set 220 it is different - you just bat time,

Dick Vermeil

That kind of guy, as you saw, most of the time somebody was on him, but he just wins the battle physically, one-on-one. They do a great job of throwing him the ball. It's just a one-on-one situation, and he wins that battle.

That kid we faced tonight is a very good pitcher. I think he threw two no-hitters last year. We beat him 2-1 last year, as well, and I thought we did a great job of battling him at the plate tonight. He's not a power guy but he's a great pitcher.

That just shows what kind of guys I hoped we had. These guys don't ever give up. They just keep battling like little bulldogs.

That means a lot to lead wire-to-wire, which I've never done before. There's a special satisfaction in the heat of battle when guys are coming after you and you still hit good shots.

It was an exciting finish to a tough battle all day.

Shelden Williams

It was a long, dog-fight game, and it was just a battle the whole 45 minutes.

It was a little tight for our 6-foot engineer, who was sitting in the passenger seat during the driving. And you should know that the rear seats don't fold down because that is where the high-voltage batteries are placed.

It was a little cutter, middle-in, and I had been looking for it, ... He threw it to me last time we were over here and he hadn't thrown it yet. He threw it, and I was able to get the bat head out in front of it.

It was an outing that wasn't well period, regardless of battling for a spot or not.

It was about 70 percent for wanting to go at night. With the way our hitters are swinging the bat right now, we didn't want them taking any extra time off. It's also nice getting under the lights to practice for once.

It was a blood bath tonight. It was a very physical game, there were bodies flying everywhere.

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.