Famous Quotes & Sayings

Holly Black

I've loved vampires for a very long time. In eighth grade, I guess, my research paper was on vampires.

Our team has an interesting mix with five upper classmen, five freshmen and an eighth grader.

Our words this week were focus, execute and intensity. I don?t know if we showed any of that in the first half. We?re just too young to play this kind of game at this point in the season. I wish it was the eighth game.

I think eighth grade is really the earliest. You can tell there's a special kid there at that young of an age.

I rushed into it and couldn't get things together. I wasn't settled down. I'm not happy (with eighth place). I wanted to get higher.

Like I've said before, I can't get to a mile and an eighth fast enough.

I was thrilled for them (after districts) because when they were in eighth grade, they had potential. Seeing that I had a small part in helping them reach that potential is special to me.

I was happy with our eighth graders. They have never competed in a match like this. I am sure it was a little intimidating for them. It was a learning experience.

I was in eighth grade when I did my first Junior Theatre show. I was in 'Annie Get Your Gun' as a dancing Indian.

E. B. White

Part of it is because our volunteers are awesome. They are very reliable. Everything went smoothly. Every volunteer who said they were going to come did. This is our eighth time and we have learned a lot.

Mark Shapiro

Our offense got going after he moved to third. We moved him from ninth to eighth to sixth to third, which is a rough responsibility for a player in his first year in the big leagues, and he hasn't blinked.

That doesn't mean that if the weather was nice, we would have had a good economy. We might have been eighth instead of ninth.

Britt Robertson

I've kissed in the rain so many times. I think one of my first kisses was in the rain. It was in Washington, D.C., with some kid named Dash, in eighth grade. It was in the rain.

Finishing eighth is remarkable for this team. We had a lot of ups and downs, but to pull it together and do as well as we did in the tournament was unexpected. When we hit adversity, we sometimes drifted. In Saturday's game with Whatcom, we surged through that and got a win to get to the last day, which was our goal.

Finishing eighth at the Open as a team is awesome.

This was a big win for us. When you look back at the schedule it will just look like our fifth win in a row, but it took us (until) the last week of the season last year to get that eighth win. It shows the strides we've made as a team.

Through the first six or seven innings it was like, here we go again. But in the eighth and ninth, we found a way to get it done.

Maurice Cheeks

We're out of the eighth spot, we're not out of the hunt. It's how you respond.

Maurice Cheeks

We're not out of the hunt, we're out of the eighth spot and that's a difference. I think we'll come out ready to play on Friday night.

You have to play with who you have. We had three opportunities to win the game, in the seventh, eighth and ninth. Someone had to step up.

Frank Robinson

Big home run. Big, big, big home run in the eighth inning. The other two were big, too.

Jim Brown

We went from third to eighth or ninth real quick.

When I started with the company, management promised me a full-time job within two years. I am now in my eighth year.

There's guys hitting at the lower end of our order here hitting seventh, eighth and ninth that when they were in high school were their No. 3 hitter and were their star high school player.

I've been waiting two months to get to this race. I've been saying the mile and an eighth can't get here fast enough for this horse.

We could tell he (Thompson) was getting tired in the seventh inning. He started to hang a few pitches. The temptation was to throw him back out there for the eighth because he pitched such a great game but he gave us all he had.

Mariano Rivera

Most of the time, he saved the games. The job that he did in the eighth inning was a tough job. To me, he was solid.

We just did not shut the door. Every time you put them on base, you give them life, and then they?re a hit away. It?s just a shame. It?s disheartening to play so hard for seven innings and then just hand it to them in the eighth and ninth.

Eric Chavez

You can go back in the year and look at the seventh, eighth and ninth inning; we played well enough to win. We should have won those ballgames. ... Hopefully (the poor performance of the relievers) will be addressed this offseason.

Just inside the eighth pole, he had nothing.

We don't feel like we have a lot of pressure. We were supposed to finish like eighth or ninth. We played Minnesota exceptionally well and we got to go into Iowa and do the same things.

That's two in a row on the road after 16 straight losses. This season is not over until after game 82. That eighth spot is anybody's and is up for grabs now.

Allen Iverson

It's big for us because we know the other teams are right around us for the playoffs. (But) we are not approaching games like that. We are just trying to win the game. We don't feel like we need to settle for the eighth or seventh seed, we feel like we can get as high as we want to.