We won a world championship with some high-maintenance ballplayers and he handled Barry Bonds (in Pittsburgh).
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DAVE BARRY But I'm not going to walk Barry Bonds, like some teams do, in the first inning with nobody on.
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CHASE UTLEY Our GM, Dave Dombrowski, called me and asked to report early and I was happy to do it. I'm really lo...
CHRIS SHELTON Mo's really not getting many pitches to hit, ... He doesn't have the patience of Barry Bonds.
FELIPE ALOU He can be the Barry Bonds of this league. He's dominant and he can make everyone else better. They w...
AL GALLAGHER With a lot of athletes, it's a local market. Barry Bonds is successful in the Bay Area, but beyond t...
BOB DORFMAN I'm not high maintenance.
SIENNA MILLER I don't really like the Giants at all, and I hate Barry Bonds.
JEFF ELLSWORTH I'll walk him if I think it's the right thing to do, ... But I'm not going to walk Barry Bonds, like...
FRANK ROBINSON Mike and I never won a state championship (in high school), but we'll take this. We grew up together...
LUCAS HARGROVE We wanted to find dock equipment with a high level of reliability and low maintenance requirements.
PHIL HEFFELFINGER We're adding a coach to our staff who has won three national championships. He brings a championship...
BOB CAROLIS We're adding a coach to our staff who has won three national championships. He brings a championship...
BOB DE CAROLIS You have a bunch of guys where a couple have won a national championship, and the freshmen are from ...
BRETT BUCKTOOTH When you win a championship, it solidifies everything. People never talk about the Purple People Eat...
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DON COOLEY I got to experience a world championship with some great teammates.
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KAREN BRYANT I can't deal with high maintenance chicks.
JEREMY LONDON They were ridiculous times. After I won my world championship in 1976, I went to Japan.
BARRY SHEENE This year, we got the Barry Bonds- style pants that come all the way down. We try to do what's in st...
WILLIAM BOOTH I look forward to playing the Giants because of Barry Bonds. There is an added atmosphere in those g...
CORY SULLIVAN Before broadcasting for 50-some years, I did TV, played 10 years in the big leagues, won a world cha...
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JEFF JONES If I'm watching my favorite boxer, and he's just won the heavyweight championship of the wor...
NIKKI SIXX We were all talking about it when we came into the dugout. He's Barry Bonds. I don't know how he hit...
JOHN PATTERSON [Dave Barry, who wrote jokes for Martin's Oscar-hosting gig two years ago, mentioned that he perform...
DAVE BARRY I'm high maintenance, but I'm worth it.
LARA LOGAN Teofilo Stevenson won his first Olympic gold medal in 1972 and his last world amateur championship i...
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER We won the county baseball championship four years in a row and were in the state playoffs each year...
PAT ADKISON He's obviously coming off an injury that's prevented him from doing anything in a live game. He migh...
ADAM EATON The only thing that could be better is if it won a world championship for my team.
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SPANKY MCFARLAND It's a lot easier than the NL when they treat you like Barry Bonds when they know the pitcher is on ...
MIKE LOWELL It seemed like we won the national championship.
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MAX CARVER I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to, ... Barr...
FRANK ROBINSON I've always been a little high maintenance. I'm, like, upper-middle-class maintenance.
ANDERS HOLM The chances of 10-year yields soaring above 1.6 percent are high. Ten- year bonds look expensive com...
MAKOTO YAMASHITA Dave was world-renowned. He loved life and had an amazing, uplifting personality. The world lost a g...
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BUCK MARTINEZ The Red Sox are built around Curt Schilling, the Giants are built around Barry Bonds. Everybody's go...
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DAVID GRANN It was a privilege to work with Barry. He taught me a lot about people and the process we learned a...
SUZANNE ANARDE Dave Reichert is vulnerable. He represents a district that Kerry won. He doesn't really fit the dist...
BILL BURTON Dave Reichert is vulnerable. He represents a district that Kerry won. He doesn't really fit the dist...
BILL BURTON The goal of this year is to win an NCAA Championship. We won the ACC [Championship] the past two yea...
DOUG STEWART Detroit, you were incredible. Pittsburgh, here we come. I played this game to win a championship. I'...
JEROME BETTIS Mired in a batting slump, Bonds sat in the locker room and complained about his uncharacteristic str...
LARRY ELDER I knew my dad won the first championship for Manti, and I knew my grandpa won a state championship. ...
KOLBY BRADLEY It feels like we just won the Pac-10 championship.
NATALIE JONES Craig's legacy is yet to be determined. Last year we won a conference championship. This year our go...
DAN DENNISTON I played forward in the NBA, but now I'm a post-up center. I want to help bring a pro basketball cha...
ARMON GILLIAM It's obvious what kind of difference he can make. Even if he doesn't swing the bat, he steps in the ...
BRETT TOMKO We haven't won a league championship in 18 years, so it was important for us to win tonight.
LAUREN ROSCOE There is some merit in some of the things Barry says,
JULIA GILLARD This has conflicts that need to be resolved. Take this one: Pedro Gomez is covering Bonds on a daily...
JEFF BRANTLEY Dave had some huge 3s. He took them when we needed them. Cam doesn't play like he is only 6-foot-1. ...
BILL HURLEY The common misconception is that women who like to be treated a certain way are high maintenance. It...
JOY MANISCALCO He and Barry Bonds are the two greatest hitters in the game right now, I've always thought that, and...
JASON MARQUIS In 1968, I fought and won the world middleweight karate championship by defeating the world's to...
CHUCK NORRIS I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority m...
TAYLOR SWIFT I'm dating a very high-maintenance career.
AIMEE GARCIA I'll never forget my interview with Barry Humphries - one of the oddest I've ever done. He i...
MELVYN BRAGG Paul Dombrowski is a tremendous competitor. If he wants to play at the next level, he needs to be a ...
HAL MUMME Michael's got extensive front-wheel drive experience from when he won his class in the Slick 50 Road...
ANDREW JORDAN I'm hoping to get track-side for that one. It's equivalent to being next to your favorite baseball p...
MARK AMIRAULT Having a really solid drummer behind us gave us all a charge. Dave is just this gem in Pittsburgh, t...
JEFF SCHMUTZ I also said that if he won the PGA Championship I would make him my first alternate and still have h...
JACK NICKLAUS We were winning some games in Pittsburgh and Washington [five of six], just keeping the line moving,
MARK LORETTA European bonds have fallen a lot and yields have gone too high. We think there's room for a correcti...
KARSTEN LINOWSKY We're not 'little 23-4A' anymore. We've got some ballplayers, and it's showing.
DENA RUSSO The preacher must have, "bonds of a servant with the spirit of a king, a king in high, royal, indepe...
E.M. BOUNDS There is no such thing as low maintenance or high maintenance, just a bunch of women hoping for a ca...
LIZ VASSEY Randy was saying that he hadn't won a championship since he left Marshall and that (the '96 title) w...
BRIAN REED That's one thing about Helton, you're always aware of where he is. You talk about (San Francisco Gia...
BOB MELVIN That boy's got some serious feet. He can run, no doubt about it I think we handled him a little bett...
ALEC GUNN That boy's got some serious feet. He can run, no doubt about it
I think we handled him a little b...
ALEC GUNN With what Barry Bonds might accomplish this year, I think (the steroid allegations) taint it a littl...
ROB BAUGHMAN There have been four other (American) teams in 30 years that have won medals at the world junior cha...
WALT KYLE I'm high maintenance, but I'm worth it.
LARA LOGAN Nick had a tremendous 200 and 400. He won them both with some real decent times.
JIM BARKS He made some good shots. It's just part of the game. I had some battles that I won and he had some b...
RON ARTEST There's a lot of money chasing these (Asian) high-yield bonds, but we think it's temporary.
DILIP PARAMESWARAN I won the city scoring championship as a senior.
BOB COUSY the world is held in orbit by the bonds of love we share
JOSEPH ANNANG SOWAH We might see some selling in 20-year bonds before the auction.
NAOMI HASEGAWA Diamond Dave set the pace. I talked to Sammy (Hagar), and we're interested in doing some Sammy tunes...
RANDY MONROE I know it probably sounds like we won a championship or something, but I feel good.
FRED TAYLOR It's a very good program. That's a pretty competitive league, and he's really going to have to work ...
JOE KINNAN I just believe his heart is in Pittsburgh. He just likes a Pittsburgh a lot. I never thought he'd go...
GILBERT BROWN He won several firsts in the World Cup.
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DAVE BARRY Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.
DAVE CHECKETT You can't choose what you're famous for in life.
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DAVE GROHL Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument - learning to do your craft - that'...
DAVE GROHL My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.
DAVE GROHL I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
DAVE GROHL In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can d...
DAVE GROHL I've experienced great things, I've experienced great tragedies. I've done almost everyt...
DAVE GROHL Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you've got.
DAVE GROHL I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.
DAVE GROHL When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it.
DAVE GROHL Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
DAVE GROHL When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done,...
DAVE GROHL There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock ...
DAVE GROHL If there's one thing I'm good at, it's gathering people together to do something fun.
DAVE GROHL Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wal...
DAVE GROHL My children were taught at an early age how money works and that it comes from hard work. They'v...
DAVE RAMSEY You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
DAVE BARRY Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by...
DAVE BARRY I care about what the fans feel.
DAVE MUSTAINE