R. Inge Quotations

When you treat guys like you're in Little League, they're not going to rally around you like you might want them to. If I took a bad swing, I know I took a bad swing. I don't need to hear about it from everybody.

We grew the federal government's role in education when we should have been focusing on the key missions of the federal government.

Unfortunately, it's a fact of life that when you have a review, investors tend to penalize the stock.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.

There are two kinds of fools: One says, ''This is old therefore it is good.'' The other one says, ''This is new therefore it is better.''

Many of the disasters and incidents that have occurred around the world have been caused by a corrupt turnstile operator.

Many people believe that they are attracted by God or by nature, when they are only repelled by man.

Old economy: 1; new economy: 0. Yea for the dinosaurs.

Mentally, it was frustrating, because on paper we had a good chance this year. It just didn't work out.

More of the same ... the TSE two, Bell and Nortel, those are essentially what have been driving the market.

More impressive to me than all the stories that have been written about how he's been knocking the cover off the ball is how he's emerged as an above-average first baseman. He's worked hard, and now I'm glad to have him out there. He picks me up all the time.

My guess is that we'll see a strong opening here on the back of our strong resource market. We are a nation of rocks and trees.

Maybe they've just got the itch when it comes to Tigers pitching. I can't figure it out. I'm waiting for them to go into a slump against us, for crying out loud.

Natural gas has been very strong. Not only is there a seasonal strength but also the realization that a lot of the stocks are very, very cheap. We have the Americans coming in and the oil patch is for sale to the Americans.

Nothing in the materials collected suggest that there was anything on the banned list of substances.

Nothing impresses me anymore with him. He's shown me everything. He's a stud.

I would rather have that ball had hit me in the face and stayed in the infield.

Based on recent adverse findings for performance-enhancing substances and the subsequent allegations of trafficking in these substances, I feel that it is necessary to commission a wide-ranging inquiry to examine all the details of the allegations.

Base metal prices have been much firmer lately, with declining inventories for zinc pushing up prices.

I feel like we have a very, very similar team (to Chicago), maybe even better, to be quite honest with you.

I can't explain it. I thought we hit Lackey really well. I know he's been pitching well lately.

He tends to get himself into trouble and then pull himself out. Once the pressure is on, he's very good under pressure.

He had the best slider I've seen him have in four years. It looked like a fastball before you swung, then it just dropped.

We stunk. I've got nothing else to say.

Gold is a safe haven and there's expectation that with the bloated trade deficit in the U.S., the U.S. dollar is vulnerable.

He just knows how to pound the zone once he gets ahead. He just lets his defense work for him. He's a smart pitcher. He knows what he's doing.

I think it's great. I'm glad they're cleaning up the sport. I don't like it that anything can be tainted with an illegal substance. It's just going to make the playing field a little more level.

I think that's going to be our trademark - to do anything and everything it takes to win games. There's a lot of ways to accomplish that, and I expect to see us use them all.

I think that 25-basis points is the likelihood, and I think that has been built into the market.

It is becoming impossible for those who mix with their fellowmen to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.

Last year and the year prior, it was so uptight. This year, we need to do something different. This is a pleasant change.

Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking.

People just have to give him time. When you're a great hitter, all you need is time to get comfortable.

Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.

It felt good, I think it gave us a spark,

I think his swing looks like it did a couple years ago. He'd make a whole lot of noise when he hit the ball.

Jim's very much a kid at heart. He shows up at the ballpark and he's a 12-year-old. He's in the uniform and he's excited. That's the way it should be.

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; but he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

I might be able to get up there with a driver. But that's about it. That was at least 500 feet. I don't care what they say.

That's the only time on offense when you can really feel like you're a team player. You're making an out and sacrificing your stats for the good of the team. That shows me you're a team player, you don't care about stats, and all you care about is winning.

I was battling absolutely as hard as I could. A pitcher would rather have a rocket hit off him than have someone stand up there and keep fouling off pitches. That's frustrating for a pitcher. He thinks this is the pitch and you foul it off. I know as a catcher I got frustrated. ... I think it was a great opportunity for a hit, a walk, anything. Once I was three, four minutes into the at bat, I'm thinking 'I have to get on base some way.

We hope for the best, and plan for the worst.

We aren't feeling sorry for ourselves -- we play hard every day. But the last couple of weeks have been rough. It seems like we can't catch a break.

When you win two out of three against the world champions, you feel like you can beat any team in the league.

We didn't do enough damage for the fans.

There has been good competition for mares at all levels of the market today.

We knew the ending of the movie before it even started.

Undoubtedly, this is probably the long awaited sweetening of the deal. My guess is that it's less than what some of the (arbitragers) might want, but it's effective enough to get the board of directors of Placer on side.

But the market is fragile and confidence is fragile.

The government of Afghanistan should prove that they are protectors of freedom by releasing Abdul Rahman and protecting him from extremist elements.

We're the ones who have to perform. It's only his responsibility to prepare us, but once we take that field, it's up to us.

We were doing so well in the first half of the season,

Tonight, it looked like a fastball, ... and as soon as you swung, the bottom dropped out of it.

We will probably get a better opening to the market. The resource stocks and gold stocks are better today.

We have a different agenda this year, and it's not harping on negatives. That starts with the skipper.

Unbelievably strong market. There was definitely a catch-up.

What everybody was hoping would be a temporary situation may well be a protracted legal affair. That has provided the opportunity to this market, which was already nervous, to look at the worst case scenario: weeks of uncertainty.

What can I say. We can't win. Not right now.

We will not hesitate to use ever power, every relationship at our disposal.

To be honest with you, with that same effort, that same game that we put together right there, we'll still beat a lot of people with that.

This one right here showed me he has some guts. He impressed me more in this start than he has in a long, long time.

There's uncertainty with the impact of higher interest rates as to whether it will slow the economy down, and I feel that it won't, and thus we'll have even higher interest rates.

The resources took a breather for a variety of reasons.

There's lots of cash around, but it appears everybody has discounted the half-percent increase.

Is there, as the medieval mystics taught, a "spark" at the core of the Soul, which never consents to evil, a Divine nucleus in the heart of the personality, which can take no stain?

The way he's been pitching lately, we almost feel obligated to go out there and get him some runs. Confidence is the key in baseball. When you feel confident, you're going to put up good numbers.

The stock has climbed back with clarification from the company.

I've always said the lack of hitting is contagious when you're losing -- like it becomes contagious like today when everyone's hitting.

Sometimes people read him wrong because he's so quiet. But he's very clutch. He comes through for us in key situations. To me he's solid.

Perhaps the most lasting pleasure in life is the pleasure of not going to church.

Once the stadium is occupied a good number of tragedies have arisen due to a breakdown in authority,

dealing with not only a lack of management skills, but societies where crowd management generally - not just in sport - is pretty much an alien concept.

Bank results have been in line with expectations. But the talk is more the rebound in the oil prices and the pick up in the resource stocks as the quarterly earnings come out.

Bank stocks are acting better, and, of course, mother Bell (BCE Inc.), and then you combine that with the oils, which were a little bit better on Friday, and you have some pretty good participation in the market.

You would think the overall market should be stronger, but the reason it isn't is because the heavier weight groups (financial services) are weighing down the market.

This is a different team, with a different attitude. One of the first things skipper did after the game was to say 'so what'. He told us to have a good off day, then come back and try to whip them on Wednesday. It's not like the last few years. There's no pressure on us, and no one is pushing the panic button.

This has been absolutely amazing. It is the greatest sale ever held in this part of the world. After the first day it was so successful we knew it would continue.

Although we were very confident going into this sale, it has surpassed our wildest expectations. This is the greatest sale we've ever seen.

They gave him a standing O (ovation) when he went out onto the field the next inning.

They have an aggressive management, they have a great balance sheet, they have an array of assets that are leveraged to the gold price.

They did their best to give us the game. It just didn't go our way.

There were a lot of mistakes made that season to lose 119 games but I learned from those mistakes. It made me a much better player. We've seen the worse. We know how bad it can be.

This is the proverbial bounce, and it's encouraging that it bounced when it did, but is this the turn? This week there will likely be some backing and filling before the long holiday weekend.

They really do. It makes everyone sit back and think, 'Maybe I didn't do everything I could to win that day.' And maybe it makes a guy do a little soul-searching to check and see whether there's something he can do on a particular day to help. So it is needed.

At first, I slid because he was up there and he jumped at me. I thought I still slid late enough to get in, but as I slid, my spikes dug in. It was one of those freak accidents.

It's attention well-deserved. He's performing every day like he's been in the big leagues all his life.

It was really a flat, flat market and by and large the dominant theme was the constrained trading because of the holiday.

It will be another commodities day. I think we will have a stronger open here even in the face of higher interest rates.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion

It really feels good to have everybody here. We're all looking forward to this season and now we're ready to go.

It's all a matter of confidence. I think it took us taking two out of three against Boston (last week) for us to realize we could be a really good team.

It's not surprising -- they had a rapid move up and now there's a correction. This is the first major correction for this group and it's healthy.

Then there's the uncertainty with respect to technology stocks - the valuations went sky-high and now it probably has to swing the other way.

It's the same old (story). Growth and inflation. That's what's bothering the market.

It's not the same fastball he used to throw. But he's smart enough to mix 'em up.

It looks like the technology stocks are recovering, so that's helping the market tone.

It looks like the resource stocks are going to carry the day again. We will probably have a much stronger opening.

It sure was a light trading day. London was closed and it's the last week of August, which tends to historically be a light trading period.

The big fear, and the cloud that is overhanging the market is inflation. Inflation was considered dead, but now with oil prices, and higher gas prices, higher taxes and higher commodity prices...all of this with higher activity, eventually it's got to show up.

The belief in progress, not as an ideal but as an indisputable fact, not as a task for humanity but as a law of Nature, has been the working faith of the West for about a hundred and fifty years.