Field Quotes

How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.

I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established.

My bottom is so big it's got its own gravitational field.

The key thing with any football player is, what can he do when he gets on the field.

The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has paid for being world conquerors.

I don't think people will ever forget I was an 'Angel,' anymore than they'll forget Sally Field was 'The Flying Nun.'

You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it.

You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it. Which is what I intend to do.

It's fun to get out in the field. I really enjoy that. It's fun creating.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you.

You know, when you can play with the greatest players of that particular era, you look forward to going to the ballpark. I mean, you thought it was great to be there in the clubhouse. You thought it was great to be on the field.

If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.

Team doctors' jobs those days were to keep you on the field.

I'm sure people think that I'm out in left field you know, playing by myself.

The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.

I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here.

The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.

Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.

There are perhaps opportunities for greater political cooperation, at least more cooperation than exists now. But there can be no cooperation in the field because every situation is different.

Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.

My theory of change is that there are already millions of people working day in and day out on the ground to deliver on promises on global change. We need to strengthen those institutions and help those people in the field.

We are in a time when the Peace Corps mission is more vital than ever, and the organization is at a 30-year high in the number of volunteers in the field. The Peace Corps is currently in 69 posts and serving 75 countries across the globe.

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

So I picked a field where I had a little exposure. Where I thought I could have an enormous challenge, and have a chance to really do some good, to be a pioneer in an area, and not just be like everyone else.

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.

Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.