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I was just kind of standing there, thinking it was over. My reaction was to swing at him because he ...
BRADFORD CARL ROSS I just get in there and swung the bat. You're not taking pitches. Just swing it and see what happens...
DREW MARTIN Everyone pitches with a certain amount of discomfort. We have medical reports every day and Loop nev...
WILLIE RANDOLPH He made a couple mistakes here and there, kept the pitches up, but as the game progressed we knew to...
ROLAND FITE Matt pitched a great game. We had two pitchers out there who deserved to win. It was a toss-up. My h...
DEREK KARCICH I started hollering for Matt immediately, but there was nothing left where he had been standing. I j...
LINDA KELLEY I remember there was a lot of talk about upgrading the pitching staff. I knew Matt Morris was out th...
RANDY WINN I had studied the violin to a certain amount of success. At some point, I realized that I didn't...
B. D. WONG Simply put, Matt Morris is a winner. He's a gamer who not only gives his team a chance to win every ...
BRIAN SABEAN He had a rough inning the other day against Morris, and I wanted to get him back out there as soon a...
JEFF PETROVIC He had all his pitches working and he was able to locate all of them. He was real strong early in th...
GARY MCNAMARA Matt got the job done OK, but he wasn't real sharp. He had to throw a lot of pitches.
BILL ROGERS Rowdy threw an exceptional game. He was in command the whole game, and they had only a few hits that...
GARY MCCLURE Woody was great, ... He did a terrific job. He was getting up there in pitches. He had good command,...
BRUCE BOCHY I thought he looked great. He's swinging the bat well, and his timing looks like it's there. The key...
GERALD PERRY [Shields had walked Gary Sheffield on four pitches and Hideki Matsui on a 3-2 pitch to load the base...
ROBINSON CANO![]()
I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole yea...
NICOLE KRAUSS It was a pretty intense moment. I thought for sure it was broken. I went over to the mound to look a...
BRANDON INGE Shane really gutted it out. That is the longest he has pitched for us and we had him for 75 pitches....
BRUCE BROBST Frank laid off some tough pitches and the bat was coming through the zone well. I was very pleased w...
GERALD PERRY You watch his swing path, and it's always level. It's always on the ball. He knows how to fight out ...
JOE VAVRA![]()
He had held out shakily, like a tree that had been hacked down to its breaking point. But that kiss ...
SARAH BLAKLEY-CARTWRIGHT He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opp...
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN![]()
My father's a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British...
JOHN HURT Did he have no-hit stuff? Yeah, I think so. I was sitting there in the sixth wondering how many pitc...
MIKE HARGROVE I was inquiring as to a little more detail, and he informed me that he had been told that the presid...
QUIN SNYDER He threw a lot of pitches but made some pitches when he needed to. It was very fortunate that he mad...
BILL EVERS I was born in Chicago in 1927, the only child of Morris and Mildred Markowitz, who owned a small gro...
HARRY MARKOWITZ I didn't so much become an advocate for public access until I was denied. There was a certain amount...
RYAN NEES He had a tremendous amount of energy and that transferred to everybody around him. Not only was he a...
DAVID FROISETH![]()
There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educat...
MONTEL WILLIAMS I was trying to swing the bat with some authority, and not be overly defensive.
KHALIL GREENE That was a great at-bat. You never know if that has anything to do with the next guy, but when a guy...
PHIL GARNER I had a bedroom of my own in the pub and was welcome there whenever I had the opportunity to travel....
EILEEN MCLANE There are some high-caliber teams here and placing anywhere in the top six is a great accomplishment...
CHAD LATCH![]()
My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but yo...
FRANK OCEAN My pitching was better in this game than the first one against them because I threw a lot less pitch...
DANNAH DRYER John David's had a lot of experience along the way. He was the man all spring, when Matt was out. He...
DWAYNE JARRETT I realized that when I came in here, Matt had some receivers he was used to playing with. I just fel...
JOE JUREVICIUS That was a 14-point swing. That's a big swing.
DOMONIQUE FOXWORTH [Burke stayed in long enough to take his at-bat in the second frame, but he struck out and realized ...
CHRIS BURKE My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dre...
RAM KAPOOR Woodall was outstanding. He had total command of the mound and three pitches. They got one good swin...
TOM SLATER I can take a full swing and once in a while feel a sting, but it goes away. I regain my strength and...
SCOTT ROLEN Casey was exactly the person I wanted to have at the plate in that situation because she does an exc...
LESLIE HUNTINGTON I thought he was trying to kill me. He's already broken my nose. He's taken a swing at me with a bas...
BRADFORD CARL ROSS![]()
My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER There is a certain amount of coercion that is implied. My general reaction is (this is) a disturbing...
ASSEMBLYWOMAN LESLIE There is a certain amount of coercion that is implied. My general reaction is (this is) a disturbing...
ASSEMBLYWOMAN SHEILA LESLIE There wasn't anything physically wrong. I hit a professional wall. My swing got sideways. I was off ...
BRET BOONE He was already at the point of the game where we're going to go to the bullpen if anything happens. ...
TERRY FRANCONA Jeff's very realistic. If he comes in here and two weeks into it he can't swing the bat or he's back...
BRAD AUSMUS There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Ni...
BORIS KODJOE There was a certain amount of romantic sentiment that comes through some of the letters
CLAUDE CLEGG Its the 11th inning, man. You've got to bring your 'A' game, like I always say, ... I just wanted to...
DAVID ORTIZ The only player left was Matt Birk, ... He was a rookie in '98. Now he's hurt.
BRAD JOHNSON I watched her hit balls, and after the first swing I knew that she could do it. I was standing there...
GARY GILCHRIST When you have an at-bat like that, it wears the pitcher. It sets the tone. It helps the whole psyche...
BILL WRIGHT It's pretty impressive to come in like that and do what he does. One swing of the bat with him up th...
BRAD HENNESSEY I kind of expected he was going to be a little bit behind. He only pitched one other inning in the t...
HUMBERTO COTA He was erratically effective. That was the most erratic we've seen him in a while. But he made the p...
WILLIE RANDOLPH I was all over the place. My release point was all over the place, and I couldn't make key pitches.
ZACH DUKE I've been playing up and down. Coming here, I had a way I had swung the bat all my life. We worked o...
BRETT GARDNER A friend - I was living with Matt Damon at the time - went in to audition for To Die For. When he me...
CASEY AFFLECK I just had a cart here and was taking groceries off here and loading them into a cart and looked up ...
ADAM SIMPKINS I was swinging to swing the bat, like he (assistant coach Alex Marconi) said. I want to swing at the...
BRAD MILLER![]()
The Bat and the Weasels
A BAT who fell upon the ground and was caught by a Weasel pleaded to be spar...
AESOP I had my first Major League at-bat off him in 1995. He struck me out. But I think that helped me out...
MARK LORETTA![]()
There was at least one morning I was certain, though only for a few hours, that everything that coul...
CATHERINE LACEY I was a contact hitter my whole career but I learned how to handle the ball inside. And Ted Williams...
TONY GWYNN He had become something of a tragic figure even before these stories hit the headlines. But it was t...
ANDREW MALE![]()
I worked for a lot of candidates, in tough campaigns that lost. Most of my candidates lost until Bil...
DEE DEE MYERS![]()
All what stuck in my mind was what the judge had said, and that was during the assault there must ha...
STEPHEN RICHARDS We have to work on our plate discipline and look for the best pitches to hit. Sometimes some of the ...
BOBBY RODRIGUEZ My (older sister Beth) answers the door and lets him in. I was sitting there with headphones (listen...
DONNA CASSIDY![]()
I can definitely swing the bat better -- no excuses. I'm frustrated now -- swinging at bad pitches, ...
MIKE PIAZZA We shot 'Dharma & Greg' six blocks from my house for five years. I had a Dodge Durango t...
JOEL MURRAY![]()
I know I should feel anger at my father for certain things. But since he died when I was 11, I never...
NATHANIEL KAHN The next thing I knew, there was Johnny standing there. He went through the whole thing with me. Tha...
PRISCILLA HILL If you make decent pitches to him, you give him respect because you know he'll swing at anything. Yo...
JAMIE MOYER![]()
I hit rock bottom before I even went there. Actually, prison was the rescue mission that God had put...
EL DEBARGE I always swing at bad pitches, ... But lately I was swinging at even worse ones.
VLADIMIR GUERRERO![]()
I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked...
KIRSTIE ALLEY That was quite an inning with four doubles in a row. We're just blessed with some good athletes that...
DON ANDREWS He was hitting his spots real well and executing his pitches real nicely. I thought he had a great o...
CRAIG GENTRY Today was a day when I was going to relax and it ended up working out for me, ... I got a chance to ...
CRAIG MONROE He was effectively erratic I guess. That was probably the most erratic we've seen him in a while. Bu...
WILLIE RANDOLPH [One night in the mid-'80s, Morris and his wife, Sylvia, had dinner with Reagan at the White House. ...
EDMUND MORRIS![]()
Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was ...
LISA KLEYPAS![]()
Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I ...
HERB ALPERT It was a wake-up call for our team. Anthony has responded great. There was a whole misconception of ...
DARRIN HORN I was kind of mad at myself at 17 because I was 5 up after 11 and now he was coming back at me. I ju...
EDOARDO MOLINARI It means a lot to do it at home. I really wanted to do it here for the fans. I never had a doubt tha...
VLADIMIR GUERRERO Actually, I think the biggest at-bat of that whole inning was Quintero's. He got the single up the m...
ADAM EVERETT Actually, I think the biggest at-bat of that whole inning was Quintero's, ... He got the single up t...
ADAM EVERETT![]()
My dad made these dough balls and covered them up with a cloth in front of a gas fire, which was stu...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD![]()
And I thought the whole point of my education was that violence IS the answer.
RICHELLE MEAD![]()
There is technique to it-he is just standing there flexing his arm, and I am standing there making f...
RON LIVINGSTON The pain is still there. It goes from the lower back into my right leg. It started in my back becaus...
CESAR IZTURIS He pitched without his best stuff and threw some good pitches. What was impressive for a young pitch...
RICK ANDERSON
BRADFORD CARL ROSS I just get in there and swung the bat. You're not taking pitches. Just swing it and see what happens...
DREW MARTIN Everyone pitches with a certain amount of discomfort. We have medical reports every day and Loop nev...
WILLIE RANDOLPH He made a couple mistakes here and there, kept the pitches up, but as the game progressed we knew to...
ROLAND FITE Matt pitched a great game. We had two pitchers out there who deserved to win. It was a toss-up. My h...
DEREK KARCICH I started hollering for Matt immediately, but there was nothing left where he had been standing. I j...
LINDA KELLEY I remember there was a lot of talk about upgrading the pitching staff. I knew Matt Morris was out th...
RANDY WINN I had studied the violin to a certain amount of success. At some point, I realized that I didn't...
B. D. WONG Simply put, Matt Morris is a winner. He's a gamer who not only gives his team a chance to win every ...
BRIAN SABEAN He had a rough inning the other day against Morris, and I wanted to get him back out there as soon a...
JEFF PETROVIC He had all his pitches working and he was able to locate all of them. He was real strong early in th...
GARY MCNAMARA Matt got the job done OK, but he wasn't real sharp. He had to throw a lot of pitches.
BILL ROGERS Rowdy threw an exceptional game. He was in command the whole game, and they had only a few hits that...
GARY MCCLURE Woody was great, ... He did a terrific job. He was getting up there in pitches. He had good command,...
BRUCE BOCHY I thought he looked great. He's swinging the bat well, and his timing looks like it's there. The key...
GERALD PERRY [Shields had walked Gary Sheffield on four pitches and Hideki Matsui on a 3-2 pitch to load the base...
ROBINSON CANO
I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole yea... NICOLE KRAUSS It was a pretty intense moment. I thought for sure it was broken. I went over to the mound to look a...
BRANDON INGE Shane really gutted it out. That is the longest he has pitched for us and we had him for 75 pitches....
BRUCE BROBST Frank laid off some tough pitches and the bat was coming through the zone well. I was very pleased w...
GERALD PERRY You watch his swing path, and it's always level. It's always on the ball. He knows how to fight out ...
JOE VAVRA
He had held out shakily, like a tree that had been hacked down to its breaking point. But that kiss ... SARAH BLAKLEY-CARTWRIGHT He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opp...
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN
My father's a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British... JOHN HURT Did he have no-hit stuff? Yeah, I think so. I was sitting there in the sixth wondering how many pitc...
MIKE HARGROVE I was inquiring as to a little more detail, and he informed me that he had been told that the presid...
QUIN SNYDER He threw a lot of pitches but made some pitches when he needed to. It was very fortunate that he mad...
BILL EVERS I was born in Chicago in 1927, the only child of Morris and Mildred Markowitz, who owned a small gro...
HARRY MARKOWITZ I didn't so much become an advocate for public access until I was denied. There was a certain amount...
RYAN NEES He had a tremendous amount of energy and that transferred to everybody around him. Not only was he a...
DAVID FROISETH
There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educat... MONTEL WILLIAMS I was trying to swing the bat with some authority, and not be overly defensive.
KHALIL GREENE That was a great at-bat. You never know if that has anything to do with the next guy, but when a guy...
PHIL GARNER I had a bedroom of my own in the pub and was welcome there whenever I had the opportunity to travel....
EILEEN MCLANE There are some high-caliber teams here and placing anywhere in the top six is a great accomplishment...
CHAD LATCH
My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but yo... FRANK OCEAN My pitching was better in this game than the first one against them because I threw a lot less pitch...
DANNAH DRYER John David's had a lot of experience along the way. He was the man all spring, when Matt was out. He...
DWAYNE JARRETT I realized that when I came in here, Matt had some receivers he was used to playing with. I just fel...
JOE JUREVICIUS That was a 14-point swing. That's a big swing.
DOMONIQUE FOXWORTH [Burke stayed in long enough to take his at-bat in the second frame, but he struck out and realized ...
CHRIS BURKE My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dre...
RAM KAPOOR Woodall was outstanding. He had total command of the mound and three pitches. They got one good swin...
TOM SLATER I can take a full swing and once in a while feel a sting, but it goes away. I regain my strength and...
SCOTT ROLEN Casey was exactly the person I wanted to have at the plate in that situation because she does an exc...
LESLIE HUNTINGTON I thought he was trying to kill me. He's already broken my nose. He's taken a swing at me with a bas...
BRADFORD CARL ROSS
My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER There is a certain amount of coercion that is implied. My general reaction is (this is) a disturbing...
ASSEMBLYWOMAN LESLIE There is a certain amount of coercion that is implied. My general reaction is (this is) a disturbing...
ASSEMBLYWOMAN SHEILA LESLIE There wasn't anything physically wrong. I hit a professional wall. My swing got sideways. I was off ...
BRET BOONE He was already at the point of the game where we're going to go to the bullpen if anything happens. ...
TERRY FRANCONA Jeff's very realistic. If he comes in here and two weeks into it he can't swing the bat or he's back...
BRAD AUSMUS There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Ni...
BORIS KODJOE There was a certain amount of romantic sentiment that comes through some of the letters
CLAUDE CLEGG Its the 11th inning, man. You've got to bring your 'A' game, like I always say, ... I just wanted to...
DAVID ORTIZ The only player left was Matt Birk, ... He was a rookie in '98. Now he's hurt.
BRAD JOHNSON I watched her hit balls, and after the first swing I knew that she could do it. I was standing there...
GARY GILCHRIST When you have an at-bat like that, it wears the pitcher. It sets the tone. It helps the whole psyche...
BILL WRIGHT It's pretty impressive to come in like that and do what he does. One swing of the bat with him up th...
BRAD HENNESSEY I kind of expected he was going to be a little bit behind. He only pitched one other inning in the t...
HUMBERTO COTA He was erratically effective. That was the most erratic we've seen him in a while. But he made the p...
WILLIE RANDOLPH I was all over the place. My release point was all over the place, and I couldn't make key pitches.
ZACH DUKE I've been playing up and down. Coming here, I had a way I had swung the bat all my life. We worked o...
BRETT GARDNER A friend - I was living with Matt Damon at the time - went in to audition for To Die For. When he me...
CASEY AFFLECK I just had a cart here and was taking groceries off here and loading them into a cart and looked up ...
ADAM SIMPKINS I was swinging to swing the bat, like he (assistant coach Alex Marconi) said. I want to swing at the...
BRAD MILLER
The Bat and the Weasels
A BAT who fell upon the ground and was caught by a Weasel pleaded to be spar... AESOP I had my first Major League at-bat off him in 1995. He struck me out. But I think that helped me out...
MARK LORETTA
There was at least one morning I was certain, though only for a few hours, that everything that coul... CATHERINE LACEY I was a contact hitter my whole career but I learned how to handle the ball inside. And Ted Williams...
TONY GWYNN He had become something of a tragic figure even before these stories hit the headlines. But it was t...
ANDREW MALE
I worked for a lot of candidates, in tough campaigns that lost. Most of my candidates lost until Bil... DEE DEE MYERS
All what stuck in my mind was what the judge had said, and that was during the assault there must ha... STEPHEN RICHARDS We have to work on our plate discipline and look for the best pitches to hit. Sometimes some of the ...
BOBBY RODRIGUEZ My (older sister Beth) answers the door and lets him in. I was sitting there with headphones (listen...
DONNA CASSIDY
I can definitely swing the bat better -- no excuses. I'm frustrated now -- swinging at bad pitches, ... MIKE PIAZZA We shot 'Dharma & Greg' six blocks from my house for five years. I had a Dodge Durango t...
JOEL MURRAY
I know I should feel anger at my father for certain things. But since he died when I was 11, I never... NATHANIEL KAHN The next thing I knew, there was Johnny standing there. He went through the whole thing with me. Tha...
PRISCILLA HILL If you make decent pitches to him, you give him respect because you know he'll swing at anything. Yo...
JAMIE MOYER
I hit rock bottom before I even went there. Actually, prison was the rescue mission that God had put... EL DEBARGE I always swing at bad pitches, ... But lately I was swinging at even worse ones.
VLADIMIR GUERRERO
I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked... KIRSTIE ALLEY That was quite an inning with four doubles in a row. We're just blessed with some good athletes that...
DON ANDREWS He was hitting his spots real well and executing his pitches real nicely. I thought he had a great o...
CRAIG GENTRY Today was a day when I was going to relax and it ended up working out for me, ... I got a chance to ...
CRAIG MONROE He was effectively erratic I guess. That was probably the most erratic we've seen him in a while. Bu...
WILLIE RANDOLPH [One night in the mid-'80s, Morris and his wife, Sylvia, had dinner with Reagan at the White House. ...
EDMUND MORRIS
Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was ... LISA KLEYPAS
Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I ... HERB ALPERT It was a wake-up call for our team. Anthony has responded great. There was a whole misconception of ...
DARRIN HORN I was kind of mad at myself at 17 because I was 5 up after 11 and now he was coming back at me. I ju...
EDOARDO MOLINARI It means a lot to do it at home. I really wanted to do it here for the fans. I never had a doubt tha...
VLADIMIR GUERRERO Actually, I think the biggest at-bat of that whole inning was Quintero's. He got the single up the m...
ADAM EVERETT Actually, I think the biggest at-bat of that whole inning was Quintero's, ... He got the single up t...
ADAM EVERETT
My dad made these dough balls and covered them up with a cloth in front of a gas fire, which was stu... PAUL HOLLYWOOD
And I thought the whole point of my education was that violence IS the answer. RICHELLE MEAD
There is technique to it-he is just standing there flexing his arm, and I am standing there making f... RON LIVINGSTON The pain is still there. It goes from the lower back into my right leg. It started in my back becaus...
CESAR IZTURIS He pitched without his best stuff and threw some good pitches. What was impressive for a young pitch...
RICK ANDERSON
I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very ... 
I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that thin... 
I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose. 
The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. 
Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student... 
No, I don't know why Bobby and Peter Farrelly bothered with a 'Three Stooges' movie, eit... 
For just a little while, in all our lives, we're granted brief glimpses at the way things really ope... 
The unlived life is not worth examining. 
No agency is better than its account executives. 
The city is not a concrete jungle. It is a human zoo. 
We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we... 
A vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work. 
A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery. 
The current collapse of industrial society may well be the planet's way of avoiding a larger death. 
Solid men of Boston, banish long potations!
Solid men of Boston, make no long orations! 
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What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face... 
Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films. 