Pinch Quotations | Page 2

I know I'm an insurance policy. I've been that for the last six or seven years. This has been a dream come true. After my first start at Yankee Stadium I said 'Don't pinch me, I don't want to wake up,' but now it's serious time and I want to help this team any way I can.

I have to pinch myself today to think that I actually am a part owner of this business.

I have to pinch myself sometimes. You have to remember, I was fifth on the depth chart and I wasn't even supposed to make this team." ()

In the third period, we did a much better job of not getting sucked in. We tried to pinch a lot in the first two periods. When we didn't get the puck, we were in trouble and gave up too many chances. I'm just very happy with the heart we showed in the third period.

In the third when we opened it up and we started to pinch and create chances, it took just one opportunity for them and they buried it. That's the dynamic of this team.

I gave Dale permission to speak to them because it was an opportunity for him to go full-time, but the offer Grays made was totally unacceptable to us. From our point of view, they were trying to pinch him on extremely cheap terms.

I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.

I pinch myself because of the understanding that I've been blessed with a real rare opportunity that few Americans ever get - to serve their government and their people at this level.

Certainly, when you're dropping in excess of two million for a commercial you've got to pinch yourself to make sure it's the right thing to do.

He said that she would have won a distance over two and a quarter miles, or two and a half, but that she was feeling the pinch over three. He is convinced she is not a staying mare but a Champion Hurdle mare.

I can be under control as a pinch hitter. But playing the outfield is different. It would look no good if someone hit a ball into the gap with the game on the line.

I barely had time to get my batting gloves on. That was probably the earliest I pinch hit all year. It kind of caught me off guard.

He's not worried. He feels he can pinch run right now and maybe hit.

The growing concern with business input costs such as energy and insurance ... will start to hamper small firms' expansion and hiring plans if action isn't taken. The most obvious course of action would be to lower the overall tax burden to alleviate the pinch small businesses are feeling.

The importance of the thumb can't be underestimated. The actions of the hand include pinch and a grasping function.

You've got to pay attention all the time so as not to pinch someone. With the wind factor, it's high-stress work.

All of a sudden we are paying $3 at the pump and SUVs are falling out of fashion. Delphi feels that pinch just as much as General Motors.

The game was close, so I figured I might get to pinch hit. I had a bad game Saturday and had been battling. I needed to relax. That (hit) was good to see.

The crowd was just phenomenal. It's one of those moments where you definitely do pinch yourself.

The first time I had to pinch myself was walking into (big-league) spring training,

The distinction between the 3rd floor and the 14th floor used to be real. The editor was always in charge. That's no longer the case. And it's hard to avoid the conclusion that while Pinch has been running the paper, it just lurches from crisis to crisis. At some point you have to question the quality of his leadership.

It appears that the threshold has been reached where consumers are feeling the pinch of higher gas prices and are beginning to reduce their restaurant spending, ... We are also seeing softness in restaurant same-store sales, which we track monthly, further validating a reduction in consumer spending.

He that holds fast the golden mean,And lives contently betweenThe little and the great,Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door.