R. Inge Quotations

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.''

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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.

The stock has climbed back with clarification from the company.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

The resources took a breather for a variety of reasons.

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.

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

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.

In a period when there were a lot of M&A heated activity they, by virtue of being in the penalty box, could not realistically look at anything because there would be a question mark as to whether you could really close any transaction in a reasonable time.

After the rally that we've had, there's always that retesting of the lows, and that's what we have to do.

If you're focused on places you want to be down the road, you're not focusing on the task at hand.

If you have leadership from the top it trickles down into the clubhouse. If not, it's gonna be an issue. (But) we're fine this year. It's not even on the radar.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I hope he puts the fear of God in them. I want them to know that, hey, we've got some quality pitchers here that they're going to have to beat throughout the season.

In the majority of occasions, this may cause nothing more than minor irritations, but if have an intermingling which results in violence, then how do you separate the rival elements, and where do the rival elements then go in order to leave that situation? A lot of that depends on the ability of the stadium operators to manage.

If you mark-to-market the portfolios together, you are looking at multibillion mark-to-market losses, particularly with gold at $500-plus.

He's something baseball needs right now. With all the (negative) publicity going on, he's a breath of fresh air.

I love that. I know it's nothing personal when they do it. I'm going to make them pay for doing that, to get me motivated.

He's just a solid, hard-working player who quietly goes about his business. I'm sure all of this has caught him off a guard a little, but he's the type of guy who can keep all of this in perspective. He knows there are still, what, 155 games or so left.

It was a pretty intense moment. I thought for sure it was broken. I went over to the mound to look at him. He was in an extreme amount of pain. That ball came off the bat very quickly.

It was a bit skewed because a lot of the participants south of the border were away, but it was a pretty broad-based rally.

The crowd was into it and really supported us. The problem was we didn't do enough damage to give them many reasons to cheer.

The command "Be fruitful and multiply" was promulgated according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons

You can't take it like it's a country club. I honestly don't think he directed that at everyone. Instead of calling out a few people, he took a different political route and generalized the whole team. If someone gets offended by what he said, then they don't deserve to be here.

This is more than enough grounds to implement and commission the investigation.

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

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

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 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.