Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Lee

Part of the fun is watching kids take batting practice and run around the field and create memories.

Mike Lowell

People just yell at you more. You hit a line drive in batting practice and they're going crazy. It's actually a good feeling.

Marvan Atapattu

Our batting let us down but we need to come back and do better in the remaining matches. India are playing very well at the moment but we need to encourage each other to do better.

Rahul Dravid

Our batting in both innings, the top order especially, let us down.

Greg Chappell

We need results in test cricket. Both teams are evenly matched and we are excited about this game. We got some good batting practice in Lahore.

B. R. Hayden

I think they've really been worn down through the course of this game. It's been a terrific batting performance from Ricky, sensational in both innings,

Habibul Bashar

It is a very good batting wicket and the outfield is fantastic. I definitely want to win the toss here.

Bennett King

I think tonight we just did not play very smart at all. We were in a good position from our batting perspective but there were some things with our bowling as well, they were all combined. It was not any one person's fault or any one person's non-performance, it was a combination of a number of things.

Ian Bell

It is not easy batting out there. Getting any total is going to be a struggle.

David Thurtell

Literally and figuratively, I think we've weathered the storm, as the release of strategic reserves has calmed the market.

Jon Garland

I was upset with the pitch I threw and mad at myself because I shook him off and he wanted something different, ... A.J. came out and calmed me down a little bit. It was like, 'OK, jump back on the mound, and here we go.'

Dwayne Bolt

I think he was nervous at first, but when the nerves calmed down he came through.

Peter Fleming

He's calmed down a little bit, certainly. You know, you can't be so self-absorbed with six kids -- that's a plain fact.

Blaine Boyer

I was thankful that the MRI showed that I just had inflammation in the shoulder, not any structural damage. If I can get it calmed down, I should be OK.

Karl Turner

If we had our phone, we could have calmed him down.

Charlie Puleo

He had three 0-2 counts where he left some pitches up and they just jumped on them; those kids swing the bat. I think he was fired up with all the kids in the crowd. But once he calmed down, he was tough to hit.

Brian Cashman

He feels he can pinch-run right now and maybe hit. He just needs to get it calmed down, and that's why he's not a defensive player for them right now.

Brian Cashman

He feels good, he'll be ready, he's not worried. He just needs to get it calmed down.

Bill Hawkey

Patrick and I are feeling very good about this team. We saw some promising things in our first two scrimmages.

Eric Love

People need to speak out about their feelings to those of us who are in denial,

Scott Kahan

People may have a better feeling psychologically than they did at the end of the year. They're a little more comfortable. So this is a good time to do a self-assessment.

David Cline

People looking for a private retreat with a lot of land, seclusion and a feeling of living 100 years ago.

Simon Schoch

Our preparations have been perfect and right now we're feeling really confident.

Robert Kreps

Our team has really been talking about this game. I think everyone was in the zone tonight, and I was really feeling it.

Alex Rodriguez

Our state of mind right now is that we're feeling good about where we are going. We're playing with a lot of urgency right now. We're playing with a lot of grit.

Dan Marsala

Our first record wasn't really . . . I don't know . . . us. I mean . . . it had no feeling at all. People still loved the record, and that's awesome. But we didn't want to do that again. We wanted to sound like a real band.

Erik Palladino

Our feelings politically about war have stayed the same. We have a general code, we don't really talk about it.

Dave Roberts

Regardless of what our record is, the goal is to make the playoffs. If you win 100 games and you don't get to the postseason, what good is it? I guarantee you every single team that wins more games than us this year would like to be in our position.

Steve Yzerman

Regardless of how the game is played, there will be low-scoring games, and good teams have to win 1-0 or 2-1 (in the playoffs).

Terri Sullivan

Record wise we want to get back on track, so we know the opportunity is there to play games and do something with them. At this time of the year we're looking to play as many games as we can.

Ray Allen

Records are always made to be broken. I have a long way to go, games to play, threes to hit. The key is getting to playoff basketball.

Mike Rucker

Records and things like that are made to be broken. The odds can come out on a game and you might be the underdog. Is that saying that the underdog wins? No. I don't think we put a whole lot of stock in that.

Rick Stansbury

Reggie needs to not always look for the 3-pointer. He's got to play off that dribble, take it to the hole, which he's done more lately. A mid-range game opens up the 3-point shot. It makes him a more versatile player. And he needs to be a screener, because screeners get open. But it's getting better.

Lana Ross

Our region is tough. We're going with the same lineup to give our players a lot of at bats. Right now, we're sore. We've played a lot of games with a little rest. Our pitchers are doing just enough and Maple Woods is a good team.

Jacques Rogge

Organizing the Games is never easy. But I am glad the fundamentals are sound.

Scott White

Oregon and Washington State are the most physical, hardest-fought games every year. You always have to pick it up a notch when you go play at Oregon.

Steve Erickson

Overall I think I'm playing a lot better. I've worked a lot more this year and I'm more confident. I'm mentally stronger.

Nicole Vaidisova

Physically I was well, mentally I was well. I just never got into my rhythm.

Aaron Glenn

I think this team is mentally strong enough to overcome it. We have to.

Flip Saunders

That wasn't our night. Just physically a step slow, and mentally we just didn't react as quickly as we normally do. Just not as sharp.

Barry Gibb

I think vocally and mentally we've managed to stay intact, somehow.

Brian Randle

I woke up the next morning about 8 o'clock mentally ready to play. The same thing with Sunday morning, waking up early. The mindset was to get up, get the day started and go to the game.

Chris Byrd

I think more than anything it has been mentally draining,

Maria Sharapova

I feel like I'm mentally tougher out there,

Malik Rose

He's just one of the most mentally tough players I've ever seen.

Donnie Henderson

Our practice tempo was probably a little different than what we've seen.

B. F. Skinner

Overcrowding can be corrected only by inducing people not to crowd, and the environment will continue to deteriorate until polluting practices are abandoned.

B. F. Skinner

Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who has any concern for human achievements

Bill Crawford

Change isn't always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.

Bill Bryson

At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by the object of the amorance." That is jargon - the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement - and it is one of the great curses of modern English.

Bernard Arnault

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.

Antoine Rivarol

Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.

Shay Murphy

I was just going up there relaxed, do what I practice so much. So I was pretty confident.

Frank Scelfo

I think there's more of a sense of urgency. We saw it in practice on Tuesday.

Tom Wilson

Some of them, quite frankly, are nothing more than a driveway.

Kevin Spacey

'The 24 Hour Plays' is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.

Mary Kelly

The (anti-virus) system worked, which was quite a relief.

Carl Jacobs

That was quite a ride. We'd be thrilled to repeat it.

Tom Miller

That was quite an accomplishment for us. This is a very tough tournament.

Paul Johnston

That's the really big trend, ... Year 2000 has been the big thing that has really worked quite well.

Steve Griffin

That suggests to me there is something quite clandestine going on or something strange.

Terry Grant

I was quite shocked when they called me.

Carol Patterson

I was quite disappointed the vote went the way it did.

Kevin Na

I was thinking, I can make a three-shot swing here, ... I can make eagle, or he makes bogey, and that's at least a two-shot swing.

Buddy Bell

I don't know what to say. We didn't swing the bats.

Nelson Castleberry

He can swing it like that if he is patient.

Dan Jenkins

Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.

Mike Trapasso

He's got to swing better than he's swinging, that's for sure.

Greg Walker

When he was on opposing teams, we actually used his swing to teach off of. Some of the things he does, we talked about for two years ... so we know his swing pretty good.

Alan Dershowitz

Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The right to swing your fist should end at the tip of my nose, but your right to express your ideas should not necessarily end at the lobes of my ears.

Jay Bryson

Obviously, this quarterly swing is a one-off event.

Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.