We have to remember that this guy was pitching against Boston College and West Virginia this year, not Oakland and the Yankees.
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ROBERT RUPP This is not a union or non-union issue. This is a West Virginia bill for West Virginians.
ANDY MCKENZIE Since I've been told it's mostly non-West Virginia companies, let's make it so stringent that when t...
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REBECCA GOLDSTEIN This was a momentum builder going into the Boston College game.
ANTHONY MORROW We played really well against Villanova and Georgetown. We knew the West Virginia match was going to...
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MARK BELLHORN I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN We had a very hard time last year against some of the league's better pitching. We're going up again...
ED HOBSON We don't know a lot about West Virginia. We have restarted that series. Missouri, however, has done ...
CHUCK MERZBACHER I've been a conservative in West Virginia before that was popular. I've seen a change in Wes...
JOHN RAESE We're very proud to again receive this award and have the distinction as the only West Virginia coun...
CHUCK HATFIELD Playing in the GBI League my sophomore year against teams like Arlington, Medford, Melrose, Newton a...
BILL SEABURY We didn't want the shin splints flaring up against West Virginia. So we kept her out.
BEN BUCCA Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.
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DAVE MCDERMOTT Sixty-five is OK, but we have states in this region - West Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia - that have ...
BRETT HALL So this is going to be drill!?
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ART WALKER She'll be able to play in college, ... and that was her goal. We weren't sure last year, but someone...
CATHERINE YOUNG Early in the year we lost Ben for a while (to an inner-ear ailment) and as a pitching staff we picke...
CHRIS CAPUANO He's that kind of guy. I knew this from playing against him. When he was in Kansas City, Oakland, yo...
JOE TORRE Nobody was pointing fingers after losing to Boston College, and Coach Williams remained positive wit...
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DAVID RAKOFF We're going to see how tough we are. We have to go into tough arenas, on the road, against a team th...
FRANK HAITH With this rescue in West Virginia , I feel even more helpless because I'm here, and not doing much o...
BILL ARNOLD This is truly something for a country boy from West Virginia,
BOB DAVIS I remember going into the game plan [against Philadelphia last year] and just hearing the defense ta...
JAMES THRASH This is about redevelopment areas in Oakland perceived to be more valuable for uses other than indus...
CLAUDIA CAPPIO Whether I'm pitching,or in the outfield, there is a sense that this is a complete team this year. We...
GLENN WITKOWSKI We have a veteran bullpen, which is good because we have a young starting staff. I was happy with ou...
DAN CARLSON When the authorities from West Virginia found out he was in the hospital, West Virginia didn't want ...
JAMES GRAHAM Come to West Virginia and we'll show you how to live... how to treat people. We're open for ...
JOE MANCHIN He realized he was wrong in some of his actions at West Virginia, ... He's just a competitive guy an...
FRANK BEAMER A year ago, I don't know if Stephen could have served that match out. At the start of the year again...
BOB BAYLISS All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
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BILL RANEY There's not this pressure on them of seeing Larry Bird or Isiah Thomas or Jerry West circle the cour...
BOB GIBBONS I said a few years ago when I didn't go to West Virginia that the greatest resource of this city is ...
BOB HUGGINS They'll have a good team this year. They've got good relief pitching and starting pitching now, and ...
PATRICK O'NEILL I think this year we're going to have to focus more on our defense. Our pitching is strong, but not ...
JANICE GILLESPIE People in West Virginia do have cars. We have indoor plumbing. We even use knives and forks.
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JOEL BURGIO This is one of the best pitching staffs in the league this year and that halfway proves it. How many...
DUSTIN HERMANSON You want to give the audience the feeling this is the only game the Yankees and Red Sox are playing ...
TIM MCCARVER She said, "Right now, while we have this time, I'm not going to do any of that other stuff. I'm goin...
CRAIG GROESCHEL West Virginia is tremendously important to us. This is, for us, the center of the coal universe.
DAVID GARMAN There's a way to win when the other guy is pitching good against you. You've got to pitch and defend...
TONY LA RUSSA I think when he was young that was his best position and I remember he could hit a little bit, too. ...
LARRY HAYS We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.
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RAMON RODRIGUEZ When drugs itself are a treatment, what further treatment do you want.
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NEIL GAIMAN What we got him for was to balance out our rotation and to give us another quality, top-of-the-rotat...
WALT JOCKETTY I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this n...
YOGI BERRA Ben will be exciting to watch, and we will have to wait and see how he adjusts to the college level.
JUSTIN SHERWOOD In West Virginia, the most vulnerable people we have are people who get up every morning and go to w...
JOE MANCHIN Our mistakes turn singles into doubles and triples. For us to win we have to score a lot of runs, an...
JEFF RODGERS The people of West Virginia have made it clear that they will no longer tolerate a government that i...
JOE MANCHIN How we do this year really depends on our pitching. We can play defensively, and we can score runs. ...
AL GRAY Growing up I pulled for Notre Dame and also Miami and Boston College. When it came down to it those ...
ERIC OLSEN God decided that this time in history was perfect for you to glorify Him and make an eternal differe...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Looking back on the (Boston College) game, we could have easily won. It felt great to go out and sco...
AL THORNTON It's like Charlie said on TV, it's not him against Ben. He has to go against the Steelers' defense a...
DAVID FRYE I e-mailed the guys the article from the West Virginia newspaper when West Virginia beat [Ohio].
JOE BATTISTA I think we have had good hitting teams in the past, and we have had good pitching teams in the past,...
LEIGH ROSS The unusually strong and large American contingent is definitely the story at Boston this year.
AMBY BURFOOT At this time of the year, pitching is ahead of hitting. Timing is the biggest thing -- his swing pla...
CHAD EPPERSON We're playing against a playoff-caliber team. The Steelers have had a good year. They have a great t...
DRE BLY I know because I'm sitting in the seat. I think about last year when West Virginia -- which started ...
MIKE BREY A year and a half ago, we hired this guy to research names, ... He said, 'People remember numbers mo...
SUSAN WARD West Virginia wrestling will have a big void. It will be something to not see him in the corner. The...
LARRY SHAW I really think Ben can help us this year, ... He’s not going to play major minutes, but he’s a g...
ROBERT DAVENPORT A year, ten years from now, I'll remember this; not why, only that we were here like this, together.
ADRIENNE RICH I like my stomach, but it's really annoying because apparently, now, you're not allowed to show your...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY In the past, we had made up our mind that if Alex or Kyle was still there, they were the guy. Will w...
GREG GABRIEL We weren't looking past this game, but we were also looking forward to playing Rutgers. It's not lik...
BRITTANY HUNTER There were 284 deaths from West Nile virus last year, (but) 30,000 deaths from pneumonia and influen...
DANIEL BLUMENTHAL I remember the first time I played the triple-A Yankees when I was 20 years old, and Darryl Strawber...
VERNON WELLS It isn't the big drop in competitive level that the average fan might think. And the MAC gives Templ...
BILL BRADSHAW I can't even
SARAH VAN WATERSCHOOT Here I was, this good guy that played football; I was gonna go play in college but I had a bad senio...
BOB LIVINGSTON I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for makin...
YOGI BERRA Oh yeah. It's like Charlie said on TV, it's not him against Ben. He has to go against the Steelers' ...
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RICHELLE MEAD You're the biggest idiot that ever came out of Boston College. I'm insulted that we could have gone ...
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It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
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BEN JONSON A countenance inconceivably forbidding.
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BEN HARNEY Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home
Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy
...
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BEN HECHT Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety
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BEN AARONOVITCH But I do hate him as I hate the devil.
BEN JONSON You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
BEN STEIN If he were
To be made honest by an act of parliament
I should not alter in my faith of him.
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They that love mirth, let them heartily drink,
...
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BEN LINDSEY than any other man who ever ran for office in Denver.
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BEN LINDSEY Do your best and let God do the rest.
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BEN JONSON Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them.
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BEN SWEETLAND The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become.
BEN HERBSTER Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
BEN STEIN In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
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BEN VEREEN Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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BEN JOHNSON He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity
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BEN JONSON He threatens many that hath injured one.
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BEN HECHT The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life...
BEN SWEETLAND When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to...
BEN JONSON Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
BEN JOHNSON They that know no evil will suspect none.
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BEN KINGSLEY We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
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BEN ELTON Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it...
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BEN ELTON If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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BEN ELTON I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JOHNSON I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so ...
BEN JOHNSON In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the ...
BEN HECHT Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effo...
BEN HECHT There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JOHNSON Blueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSON All concord's born of contraries.
BEN JONSON The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world ...
BEN STEIN Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achieveme...
BEN STEIN In the hope to meet
Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
BEN JONSON It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is neve...
BEN STEIN Were the radical democratic impulses of the American Revolution still driving US politics, it would ...
BEN MANSKI Thirty years after drafting the US Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson warned of the dange...
BEN MANSKI The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.
BEN JONSON The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, t...
BEN OKRI We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alter...
BEN OKRI The greatest success, is successful self acceptance.
BEN SWEET