Jim Morris Quotes (38 Quotes)

You can't get picked right there. It's a 3-1 count and you have a good hitter at the plate. You're not trying to get a jump. You've got a guy in the middle of your lineup up there and the one thing you cannot do is get picked off. We have talked about it a lot.

When you lay your life out there, you want it to be as true as possible.

He's a great prospect and a great kid. When we signed him we thought it would be very doubtful he'd play in college. We thought he'd turn pro.

I consider myself very lucky. God has a funny way of bringing some things around and knocking you in the head with the ultimate destination. Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to. It came in His time, not mine.

We look all around the world for the best technology, the best intellectual capability, and for the best manufacturing capability in a serious effort to improve our competitiveness. We keep the best partners in terms of quality, cost, and capability.

I thought we should have won two out of three. We shot ourselves in the foot.

Henry has been very successful against us last year and this year. He got behind some today and didn't get his breaking ball over and he had to come in with some fastballs. And we hit some hard, but we know he's an outstanding pitcher.

We hate to lose Coach Jungers. I understood when we hired him that some day we would lose him to a head coaching job. We know he will do a great job in the future.

He didn't locate his stuff great against us. But he's still got great stuff. I've seen him for the last three years. He's got the highest ceiling of any pitcher in the conference.

We match up evenly. Our job is to worry about Iowa Western and play basketball the way we have to play it.

We weren't any good in any aspect of the game. Clearly beaten.

Animals calm people down. And pet lovers usually have gentle hearts. If you go in the other shelter, people tend to sit still and idle. Here, there's a lot going on. And what's wonderful is the way our students are volunteering and helping wherever they can. For us this is a mission that helps the evacuees and their pets as well as our students who are here taking care of them.

What we've been trying to achieve is a way to improve our competitiveness and grow our business. Our strategy is to focus on large-scale integration and use the best the world can offer. It's been a hard journey, but if you look at the successes over this last year, it's beginning to pay off.

They just got into it a little too late.

He's tried really hard to get back into the starting rotation, and he could possibly be our ace at one point this season. Scott's been hurt his whole career here, and this Sunday will be a great opportunity for him and for us.

Herman Wells deserves so much credit for building an installation that brought the world to the state of Indiana.

With a little bit of knowledge and the right mind-set, you can lead a pretty comfortable life.

If you look back, you'll see that we have a long history of, shall we say, flawed characters who have served in this office.

We kind of stuck our necks out purchasing this property. We almost certainly would have made money by developing it. But in a way, we are developing it. We're developing it back to nature. At the end of day, you have a crop of trees, not houses.

The level of competition right now is very high, every single game. It seems like every time we're playing someone they are in the top 20, top 10 or top 5. We have a lot of young players that are getting thrown into the fire, and they've got to learn and step it up or they're going to get burned up.

I realized a dream I'd had since I was three. But I wanted to spend more time with my kids, and help them pursue their dreams.

(Patterson) shot the ball very well tonight. Overall I thought the kids did a good job of being unselfish. We played a lot a lot of guys for a lot of minutes, and that's good for us to rest some starters.

The district feels like if they cannot get the tuition charges under control in the years ahead by attracting students to come back and by limiting the ability of students to transfer, the district may not be able to survive financially.

When we got out of college, we wanted to save the world. And now, we are able to save a little piece of it.

He's a very unique guy, with the offensive ability he has behind the plate. Something that's very intriguing to me is that his coach played in the major leagues. That should mean he has more refined tools than most kids at that age. ... We expect him to come in with his tools and compete right away for us.

We lost a lot of our starting players from 2005. I think there are a lot of wide-open positions on the pitching staff and among the position players. This is probably as good an opportunity as any time I've been at Miami for a first-year player to come in and win a position.

That sarcasm is mild compared to Morris' treatment of Nixon, who the authors say may have had an affair with a cocktail waitress. Well, I can't even imagine him with his own wife, let alone someone else, ... I'm going to now caress your little appendages.

Dave Blanding has clearly demonstrated his personal commitment not only to achieving technical excellence in his own field but also to inspiring others to pursue technical careers and excellence in those careers. So Dave truly represents what this award is designed to recognize.

I'd like to fly. Then I wouldn't have to wait in airport security lines.

I think that too many people are closing their eyes to the fact that we have to defeat terrorism.

You see him walk in and he's not very big. He looks like he's 16 years old, but he knows how to play the game.

You shouldn't be running into that play. We made quite a few mental mistakes against a veteran club, and it cost us.

Eric was being hunted. I wasn't. That would probably wear on a person after a time,

For the majority of companies, pension plan management is not a core competency, nor should it be. They are questioning the value of the time and resources their pension funds now require versus the clear benefits of outsourcing.

Our pitchers were great tonight. They've given us the opportunity to win in nearly every game this season.

We expect the current governance structure to remain in place for the foreseeable future.

The good news is that it counts as one loss.

Getting swept by Florida is no moral victory. It's embarrassing. Getting swept by anybody at home is embarrassing.