Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zubin Mehta

I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.

We work very closely with Boston police to ensure the safe conduct of all of our spectators.

Daniel Hernandez

Nicol said to The Boston Globe. ''This is a tough place to get a game. But things happen and he has gotten back in the lineup.

Manny Ramirez

My main focus, like I say, is getting prepared for the season to help Boston win. I'm here. I don't live in the past, I live in the present.

Jim Calhoun

My fear is being flat (for the start of league play). When we lost to Boston College last year to start the Big East, we couldn't raise ourselves to that level. Having not played that kind of competition recently, I have concerns, but we have to play these two games first.

Victorian racehorse owners frequently named their horses after murderers. That was so astonishing. Can you imagine the equivalent today, with a horse named, say, Boston Strangler, running in the Kentucky Derby? This was a new discovery. The Victorians didn't think it was odd, so no one ever mentioned it particularly.

What we're doing is we're in the process of putting beta test sites in the Boston area. There are two out now and we hope to have 20 over the next 60 days.

Thomas Menino

I am proud to say that today Boston is one of the safest cities in America. That's because we've taken crime very seriously from the very beginning.

Cy Young

My heart will always be with the Boston fans. I hope that everyone who truly loves me will still support me now that I won't be with the Red Sox,

Mark Hendrickson

Now we just need to carry it back to the road starting tonight in Boston and do what we can to spoil people's October plans.

Obviously, that's something that has been in the back of our minds. There is no resentment toward Diana at all. She was an unbelievable pioneer in women's basketball. We also want to leave our legacy with a successful career. It wouldn't end any better way than us being in Boston at the Final Four and winning the national championship.

From a competitive standpoint, probably the most sensitive issues are in the Boston and Massachusetts areas, ... There's going to be some risk to Fleet's dominance there, but I'm not really concerned.

Alex Rodriguez

I don't think we're seeing colors in the other team's uniforms, ... We know each game is important whether it's Boston or Tampa. We need each game desperately, and we're playing that way.

Johnny Damon

I expect him to be on. We need him to be on. There's no way we can get back to Boston down 2-0.

If Boston Scientific is to come back, they will have to come back north of US$75 to keep this alive. They'll have to come back at least US$2 or more higher than they were.

If Boston and Oakland start competing to draft players no one else wants, each will get half. As long as the A's keep churning out talent from the draft and the farm system, they'll be fine.

I can tell you our focus is on Boston College and only on Boston College . We haven't decided who will be in net. We'll have our hands full with Boston College as it is.

Eric Olsen

Growing up I pulled for Notre Dame and also Miami and Boston College. When it came down to it those were all in my top five. But Boston College was probably second.

Robert MacNeil

I have children in Denver, Boston and London, England; and my wife and I have been to see all of them; and they to us in New York.

Mike Wallace

My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.

Calvin Coolidge

The right of the police of Boston to affiliate has always been questioned, never granted, is now prohibited.... There is no rightto strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

Wall Street did not have a good feeling for what's next for Boston Scientific.

David Cone

I've always noticed how the Fenway fans get behind the pitcher, especially late in the game if you're having a good game, or if you have two strikes on a hitter, they really start to chant and anticipate a strikeout. And that's the best part about playing in Boston and at Fenway. There are knowledgeable fans who anticipate the flow of the game and they can really help out the pitcher.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

As a consequence [of a closed economic circle], in 1912 there was not a single Irishman who sat on a single board of a major Boston bank.

Chuck D.

I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock.

David Ortiz

This jersey that we're wearing today doesn't say Red Sox. It says Boston.

David Ortiz

Sometimes you just don't feel the same everyday, it doesn't matter what you do, but when you have people looking forward to seeing you perform for them, that puts you in the mood, and that's natural in Boston. That's why it's such a special place to play.

Dash Mihok

Here's the thing: I had never been to Boston, my whole life. Probably because I'm a Yankee fan.

Daisuke Matsuzaka

I'm very happy and excited to be a member of the Boston Red Sox.

David Sirota

Let's hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American.

Amar Bose

There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.

Amar Bose

We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them.

Knowing that we were two points from being in Boston (is tough).