Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.

With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.

The team that gets off to a good start wins pennants.

I think we can win it if my brain holds out.

In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.

My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.

No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness.

Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.

There is but one game and that game is baseball.

Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.

Cobb would have to play center field on my all time team. But where would that put Speaker? In left. If I had them both, I would certainly play them that way.

Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.

One small breeze doesnt make a wind storm.

I like people-watching and fading into crowds.

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.

The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and the appeal of electing a superbly qualified charismatic African American leader.

You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.

I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds.

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

I just play to the people I can see. So it's almost like you are playing to the first few rows of the crowd. You can see the faces of the first hundred people, but then it becomes a blur as the crowds disappear over the hill.

She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.

I get very anxious and am scared in crowds and things like that.

We know that Europe loves President Obama. He had adoring crowds. The press loves Obama. The question is how will this date end? Okay? The question is, to what end? Why do they love President Obama? They love his personal story, they love his wife. North Korea, China and Russia don't really care about Michelle's arms and, you know, whether they gave an iPod to the Queen, okay?

In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.

I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.

Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men.

Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.

For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.

The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.

There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.

I always said that when it was time to retire, I would know it, and I would just tip my hat to the crowds.

I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself.

Then you get to be involved with all the people, meet all the beautiful girls, get all the good food, get ready and locked in before all the crowds hit.

When I'm on tour, I'm in a new city every single night, and the energy and the crowds and the kids and the screaming and them knowing every single word of my music and being onstage is such an energetic feeling with a big payoff.

I hate crowds of people pretending to be happy on one night of the year, where they get drunk and obnoxious by the end of the night.

With the crowds on your side, it's easier to play up to your potential.

I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.

I have sung to large crowds since then, and there is a feeling that once you get over 100,000 people, you kind of lose the control element, you don't know if you are really getting through or not.

This isn't the best town for what we're doing. Too many other things to pull the crowds away.

Hey, we've all been to high school We've seen the in-crowds. Most of us have been in the outer crowds, the people who weren't in. Although I was never in, I was selling records and was very happy.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

I like the performing part, it gives me a huge rush but it still makes me nervous. Being in front of large crowds is intimidating to me and I feel myself withdrawing.

The crowds can be very loud, especially when you're playing in the evening.

Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.

Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.

Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I kind of lost contact. At one point, the only connection I had with the audience was with people out there lighting cigarettes.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.