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It`s important to find roles with characters growing up. Gar is one of those characters that moves me along the time line in my career. (His character in Home of the Giants (2007)).

- Haley Joel Osment

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can`t help it.

- Dizzy Dean

With the Giants I broadcast the debut of Hall of Famer Willie Mays.

- Ernie Harwell

I`m more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants.

- Pat Sajak

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

- Winston Churchill

I think that every artist dreams of renewing the forms which came before, but I think very few can be considered to have achieved that. We are all dwarves standing upon the shoulders of the giants who preceded us, and I think we must never forget that. After all, even iconoclasts only exist with respect to that which they destroy.

- Peter Greenaway

On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.

- Hank Aaron

In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn`t drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing.

- Willie Mays

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

- Isaac Newton

I just took the idea that King Kong was too big for everything and reversed it and put George in a land of giants, which is basically what every kid goes through anyway - that, you know, the world is made for grownups, for tall people, for the giants.

- William Joyce

With the Giants desperate for a victory, it was an obvious strategy for them to pitch around the Tigers` most potent hitter.

- William Kelly

We`ve been in the driver`s seat for so long now, that if we lose this thing, it`s not going to be because Barry Bonds came back and the Giants all of a sudden made a run. It`s because we gave this thing away. It`s ours to win. If we go out night in and night out and play the baseball we`re supposed to play, the division is over.

- Jake Peavy

The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, `Shut up and deal.`

- Ajit Dutta

McGraw had been a great friend of my father`s in the days when McGraw was managing the New York Giants and my daddy was president of the Chicago Cubs.

- Al Tellechea

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

- Alan Eustace

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

- Alan Shaw

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

- Alex Freudmann

I`m rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants.

- Alex Urquhart

The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park.

- Andrew Sharnov

(Starting cornerback Will Peterson, out since spraining an MCL Aug. 20 against the Panthers, continues to improve and might get significant playing time even if he doesn`t start. ... The Giants` three promising draft picks, running back Brandon Jacobs, defensive end Justin Tuck and cornerback Corey Webster, all of whom had great exhibition seasons, are anxious to get going. Jacobs, 6 feet 4, 267 pounds, has generated the most enthusiasm among the fans even though Derrick Ward will back up Barber.) I`m not worried about Sunday, ... I`ll be very calm before the game. And when coach yells for 27, 27 will be there.

- Angel Guzman

(The top filly went to John Oxley, who paid $675,000 for a Giants Causeway filly out of the unraced Mr. Prospector mare Prospect of Joy. ) Shes a very nice filly; very correct and well balanced, ... I love her sire, and she just looks the part of a racehorse. I buy horses who I think can win Grade 1 races.

- Angie Whitesell

We`ve lost one of the giants in this business, ... I have always felt like Sue was one of the top three or four coaches in the women`s game.

- Anita Davis

We`ve lost one of the giants in this business, ... I have always felt like Sue was one of the top three or four coaches in the women`s game. She was a great lady both on and off the court. She will definitely be missed because people like her don`t come along very often.

- Anita Davis

The likelihood of the new building being known as Giants Stadium is zero, ... The reality is that in today`s marketplace, people sell naming rights to buildings. ... For this deal to be suitable to us, it must be a genuine 50-50 partnership.

- Annette Wiese

I would say that the Giants understand, without any ambiguity, what the expectation of the governor is as far as the content of the documents we need to move into the master planning process,

- Annette Wiese

The Giants` willingness to compromise on that issue clearly was a psychologically important breakthrough in the talks.

- Annette Wiese

We`ll have kids pretend they`re giants. Then, they`ll pretend they`re running - while they`re still seated on the floor - and, as the music slows down, they`ll get tired until they have to fall down exhausted.

- Barbara Whaley

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

- Omar N. Bradley

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

- Isaac Newton

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

- Omar N. Bradley

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.

- Swami Vivekananda