Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Ellis

Sure, we'd have liked to win all three. But it's a tough ballpark to play in. They threw three good pitchers at us. We still find ourselves in a good position. You don't want to lose a series. But the position we're in, we're OK.

Jerry Mickelson

Some of the amphitheaters have big ticket fees and high services fees and big parking prices and high food and beverage prices, ... You can go to a minor-league ballpark where a beer is $3 or $4, or you can go to an amphitheater where a beer is $8 or $9.

Dave Esquer

Our goal is to just develop some consistency, so we know when we come out to the ballpark how we're going to play. We haven't done that except for pitching and good defense. We've had a hard time getting going offensively.

Jim Edmonds

Our fans are the biggest key for us, that's where we get our energy from. Really the ballpark is just secondary right now for us, it's the fans that make a difference.

Jason LaRue

Our ballpark is obviously a launching pad. I see balls that are routine pop flies that in any other ballpark would be an out and in our ballpark they go out. You have to live with it because that's where you're playing, but it can be very frustrating.

Shawn Estes

Playing in this ballpark allows me to do that. If anything, it was a confidence builder. Unfortunately, I won't be able to pitch for a while, but when I do come back, I'll have this to build off of.

Jim Edmonds

Really, the ballpark is secondary for us. It's the fans that will hopefully put us over the top.

Paul Tracy

I think we are definitely getting there with the car. We still have some progress to make with our race set-up, but there is no question we are right in the ballpark with the car as far as overall speed. I am really happy working with this team, and so far everything has gelled together really well.

John Cohen

It allows the ballpark to model itself on what we as a team do best.

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.

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.

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.

Mark Brunell

Patrick is a great guy and a very good player. He's a good friend, and I think he's going to have a great year. The backup's role is to always be ready. That's the purpose of preseason, to get ready for the regular season, so I feel good about the games I had and the time I was in there.

Geno Auriemma

Our offense always looks good in practice. It is games sometimes that it leaves a lot to be desired.

Keith Newman

Our No. 1 goal is to win the division, and that's still probable. But we need to turn things around ASAP. There's a lot of games left. But week by week, the season is getting shorter.

Dawn Ostroff

Our strength is having high-quality hits that it would take another (new) network years to develop.

Chad Slyter

I think they are just wondering what we have to do to win these short run games. The difference, right now, is we're not getting hits with runners at second and third.

Emily Martin

Jamie is really pounding the ball. She's been getting big hits for us all season.

Terry Cornett

(Lang) had them at bay. Then they had two hits and scored them.

Jeff Messer

That's the way he was last year. He's not overpowering, but he hits his spots.

Dan Haren

I think our offense is even better than last year. Milton and Frank, I mean, look at the hits they had tonight. It's nice to see them in the lineup.

Joel Edgerton

I don't appreciate, really, talking to journalists when there's a sense of wanting to kick up dust to sell more papers or get more hits on their Internet site.

Tim Chambers

He'll be able to go wherever he wants to go, if he keeps those hits up.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

Walter Mondale

Remember, ... you have six years in the first term, not six days. Don't be so impatient, charging into everything.

Bertrand Russell

Only six need be attempted.

Dennis Wolff

That was one of the softest performances by a BU team in six years - in every way.

Tim Healy

That's the most assists we've had in six games.

Mike Shanahan

I think if you take a look at any of the six teams, any of those six teams could go all the way.

Jessica Williams

I'm six feet tall. No one realizes that because on 'The Daily Show' I'm usually sitting.

Paul Johnson

I'd like to get one win, ... I'm not thinking about getting six wins.

David Keith

From sixth grade on I was a real Pillsbury doughboy. Overweight, long hair, thick glasses.

Chris Squire

I thought, 'Wow, if we could have a career that was five or six years long, that would be fantastic.' And, of course, never even thinking it would still be something I'd be doing in 45 years.

Graeme Souness

Stephen has had an operation. We could have him back in three weeks, but in the worst case, who knows?

B. B. King

Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here

Gerald Cox

We never really put this one away. Two or three 3's, and we're in trouble.

Adam Dunn

That's a tough way to give up three runs,

Amy Walter

It is one thing if it is three weeks. Three months, that is another story.

Jim Hickey

I was worried that he wouldn't even make it through three innings.

Adam LaRoche

I think I was 0-for-4 with three strikeouts,

James Toney

I thought I won it by two or three points. I thought we had the edge.

Oscar Goodman

If I'm up at three in the morning, there's no other place to go.

David Davies

Sven's got a roving eye. He's like a seagull and can wrap his wings around people.

Kevin Morris

Out the end windows of the cafeteria, it's all new,

Max Mathurin

Rene Preval has been declared the winner with 51 percent.

Ben Curtis

I'm here to win and that's what I want to do,

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Beck

I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.

Beck

Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead

B. B. King

I can't afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.