Quotes about devine (15 Quotes)


    Faith does not protect you. Medicine and airbags... Those are the things that protect you. God does not protect you. Intelligence protects you. Enlightenment. Put your faith in something with tangible results. How long has it been since someone walked on water? Modern miracles belong to science.. Computers, vaccines, space stations... Even the devine miracle of creation. Matter from nothing... In a lab. Who needs God? No! Science is God!

    They brought the left-hander to turn Lance around and he came up with a big hit immediately, ... Lane did a great job battling against Devine getting a single. They all had good at-bats, but Lance's was the one that opened the door.

    I made the decisions that had to be made, ... I never really thought 'Wow, what are we doing This is bizarre. Have we lost our collective organizational minds What's going on' I never really thought that. I thought each of these kids could answer the call and do what was needed of them and could pinch in. They have. All of them were direct responses to specific needs that we had at the time. I think they all made sense to us when we did them. I don't know that there was any unorthodox one. Maybe Joey Devine, because there hasn't been anyone drafted in our organization who has been on the playoff roster that same year.

    Jeff Stallings was one of the top pitchers in the conference. We lost him towards the end of last year and that really hurt us. Joey Devine was one of the top pitchers ever in this conference, which he proved by what he did after he left here, making the big leagues in two months. Phil Davidson who was so versatile and played so many roles for us. He started, he came in in the sixth inning, came in the third, spot-started. He even closed some games. Phil was amazing for us. When a guy can do that many things for you, you're not just missing one pitcher it's like you're missing three.

    You have someone like Noel Devine North Fort Myers, a running back that everyone in the country knows, come to this event and it's a must to be here. Since we didn't make the playoffs last year, coming to a combine like this is a must.


    Joey Devine has such an incredible upside. I don't know any player in the history of the game that has gone through what he did. His personality will deal with it.


    He talked about Jim Devine all the time ... and I knew Pat had such respect for him. In the back of my mind, I knew we were moving. I knew if Jim made him an offer, we'd take it. I thought this would be a big key to Pat's success.

    I'm not that surprised. Listening to the first-quarter conference call, Chief Financial Officer John Devine was agitated about European, South American, and as a whole, international results.

    Then Reitsma and Brower had to suck it up and they did. By the time we got to Devine, you figure it can't go on forever. You just keep going and going and going and now it's almost six hours. Somebody's bound to make a mistake.

    He's chewing gum, ... That's one thing we don't do with the media. Don't chew gum while we are talking. At this point, Devine spit the gum into Sanders's hand. There you go.

    Mike Devine has done a great job. He played all of 30-some odd minutes (3422 to be exact) last year as a freshman. Coming into this year, we had Sean Samuel who looked like the goalie that was going to start for us. Mike kind of wrestled it away and got a chance and made good by it. He's a real calm kid, he's very athletic and the guys really enjoy playing in front of him. He's a guy that really hates to get beat. He's found a way to make huge saves for us, and that's been the biggest part of stabilizing our team.

    It's not good news to change someone of Devine's stature. I would have liked to see Devine stay on longer. I'd rather have someone with greater experience around as the company deals with the trouble it has and is likely to continue to have.

    Devine said the company saw fewer sales of higher-priced, more profitable sportutility vehicles and pickups, and more sales of small SUVs and cars, in the quarter. GM's sales mix has been relatively strong in recent years, ... And after reasonably stable (U.S. market) share the last four to five years, we're down this year, and it hurts.

    The leadership and vision of Chris Devine and Bruce Buzil that was guaranteed when we joined Devine Racing a year ago, is now being realized. Steve Miller is well known and respected in the running world and has the expertise to solve problems. With Steve onboard, Devine Racing now has what it takes to complete our vision across the Board and lead us into the future.



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