Cage Quotations

If I could sum up 'Shadow's Claim' in six words: cage fights with hot alpha males. Seriously, though, while the fights are the backdrop for Trehan and Bettina's love story, the main emphasis is on how Trehan - a pitiless master assassin - wages the ultimate battle to win her heart.

When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time - the eyes of an unhappy animal, all alone, locked in a bare, concrete-floored, iron-barred cage in one of the nastier, old-fashioned zoos. I remember looking at the chimp, then looking away.

The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first.

There is a great suspicion of saying that anyone, especially a child, is 'the product of destiny,' or 'formed by fate,' or 'predestined for a certain life.' I am suspicious, too, of efforts to cage children or adults in preconceived ideas of who they are or should be.

A Home Run Derby is fun. It's just like taking batting practice, and you just want to go deep. Guys do it every day. Yes, there's a little more pressure when they pull that cage back, but if you practice properly, it shouldn't affect the second half of your season at all.

I went cage diving in South Africa with Great Whites, and that was fun. Sweden was cool.

It gives us a look into a world that's very much like 'Traffic' was for drugs, this movie is for gun running. Dark at times, but I think Nic Cage is an incredible person to watch and very entertaining.

I operate under the theory that all publicity is good publicity, and then, if that theory doesn't work, you just say that any newspaper article ends up on the bottom of the parrot cage. But, of course, you can't line a parrot cage with Internet bloggers, can you?

There are some things I need to work on just to get a feel back. I haven't played baseball for a while. I need to get some timing ... get some feel back. That stuff is going to be done in the cage and out here with coaches BP. This is a big test for me. I made contact. A lot of good things happened today.

Lori is a scorer. She's definitely looking to the cage and attacking hard. That's a big part of her game.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Right now, I feel great. I went to the cage earlier. Felt great.

Rib Cage had sponsored it for years. They asked us to come in and help take it to the next level.

I have been playing catch and in the next few weeks I hope to be in the cage doing some hitting. There is a good possibility I could be back in September with the team but if not I will definitely be in the 2006 line-up.

I don't even have to see stuff like that. I stand by the cage and I watch how somebody uses their hands. And when you get a big person who uses his hands well, they normally have pretty good power. And he's a big guy and uses his hands really well.

I bought him an attractive bird cage made in Switzerland,

I'm always kidding that we keep him in a cage and feed him raw meat. On game day, we turn him loose.

I had two good swings (in the first four plate appearances), so I went back to the cage and worked with my personal hitting coach Shane Victorino on my swing some more. We put up just enough hits and runs for me to get another at-bat.

I feel pretty good, ... To not swing a baseball bat in almost a year, no spring training, and go to a college and hit in a cage for a week and come out here and face major league pitching ... like I try to tell these guys, 'If I give you a little, it's a lot in this stage.'

I did apologize. But what I said is not for the public to hear. It's a college basketball game. Cage didn't seem to mind. You know, he said some stuff to me.

I don't think anybody has a better two-strike approach than Michael Young. Great kid, great student of the game. He doesn't miss time in the cage or the video room. All that has enabled him to be in the position he's in today.

He's back (in the clubhouse) looking at tape and he's back in the cage every other inning hitting. He works hard at his game. He was great about that in spring training and that's carried over to the season. He just loves to hit.

Her rarely striking out was not genetics. I think it was the psychology I tried to implant in her when she was young. We would go to the batting cage and I would put it on 110 pitches. I told her as long as you at least foul the ball off there is no way you are going to strike out and that all you have to do is just nick the ball.

I was in 'Seussical,' and I was in a cage onstage in a purple yarn suit singing backup, and I was like: 'I've had it. I can't do this anymore.' I will say for the record that I did love the show, but I was like: 'I want to do something else. I need a little more.'

I was working in the cage today with my mechanics, so I had very good pitches and timing with the ball. I feel great tonight.

Really it's better for them to be back on campus than in a cage waiting for somebody to adopt them.

Part of our offense is that there are no set plays to get any certain person open. It's more about the flow, and the better players are going to end up with the most shots. Cage did a really good job on him and made it difficult to score all night.

My parents are in Lafayette, and my brother's going to school in Houston now, ... Benji was left in New Orleans, and he actually survived the storm, but he escaped from his cage when my parents went back to salvage what was left of the house.

It feels great. I've been working on some stuff, trying to really relax myself, working in the cage and in (batting practice). Tonight was kind of the first night that I've gotten to get in there. It's just one night, so I've got to keep it going.

It felt like you were throwing in a tunnel. Even though there were nets between the cages, every so often a ball would sail right at you from the cage next to you. You knew it wasn't going to hit you, but you still saw it out of the corner of your eye.

We need an evaluation to determine why he does what I would call insane things. You don't put yourself in prison for the rest of your life -- in a cage -- for $33 worth of pizza.

Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;In my own way, and with my full consent.Say what you will, kings in a tumbrel rarelyWent to their deaths more proud than this one went.Some nights of apprehension and hot weepingI will confess; but that's permitted me;Day dried my eyes; I was not one for keepingRubbed in a cage a wing that would be free.If I had loved you less or played you slylyI might have held you for a summer more,But at the cost of words I value highly,And no such summer as the one before.Should I outlive this anguish-and men do-I shall have only good to say of you.

We've long been aware of the environmental responsibilities you've got when you're in this kind of business. We only feed the salmon shrimp meal, and as far as stocking density's concerned, only one per cent of the volume of the cage is fish.

Usually when you work with mice you can pet them. But any mouse on a restricted diet would try to jump out of the cage and bite you.

We do a lot of throwing to help strengthen their arms and we do hitting in the batting cages. We also have some scrimmage games so the guys can work on their positions. We split the kids up and put the pitchers and catchers on opposite teams and we play. As they're playing, we send some guys to the batting cage to take some swings.

We moved the ball around, and we started to finish our shots. At halftime we looked pretty good in terms of shots and saves -- they have a great goalie but putting the ball on the cage makes it harder for him.

Fighting in the ring or cage is very much different from fighting in the street. Fighting in the street is very much fueled by anger, pride, and male dominance and ego.

This was the most I have ever had at one time, ... Every cage was full.

Both have a good eye for the ball. Jen is doing well in the cage and she can hold up in pressure situations.

I've been hitting in a cage since December, but we'll see once I get out in the field and see some live pitching (on) how I'm doing. I got into some bad habits late last season so I was just trying to get back to where I was.

The roll cage saved my life, ... But then maybe if it had not been for the roll cage, I might have jumped off. You never know.

I've spent a lot of time in the cage working on my timing. The balls weren't dropping in for me at the beginning of the year, but it all evens out in the end.

The sunlight in the gardenHardens and grows cold,We cannot cage the minuteWithin its nets of gold

Our defense is certainly very different from last year. We couldn't do too many things last year, we had a freshman in the cage who wasn't the kind of athlete that Drew is, so we had to adjust what we did defensively. We can do more things now. We can play some different styles because Drew can make the big save.

After years of covering wars, it's really nice to get the adrenaline going. Going into a cage with sharks does that.

Despite their cuddly appearance, rabbits are fragile creatures who require special care. Too often people buy a rabbit thinking you can put them in a cage and they'll be a great pet, which is completely wrong. Baby bunnies require significant time socializing with people every day outside their cage in order to bond with and enjoy being handled by people.

Austin threw a great game and what can I say it was clutch hitting. Andy worked on some stuff in the cage and was swinging well in batting practice today. He got a hold of a couple today. I'm happy for him.

As of now, it's still in the park and they're just trying to put it in a cage and bring it to another location.

A skull to your right, a leg bone to your left, a rib cage not too many feet away.

Alex takes up a lot of cage and he plays good angles. He also makes some nice outlet passes on the transition.

The most gruesome scene that we see is this woman in the cage getting her fingernails clipped. We never see any stabbings. We never see any stranglings. I very much think that you don't have to show it to scare the audience. And when I wrote that scene, everybody told me I was sick. But it's just a woman getting her nails clipped.

They've got a great player in Adam Morrison. Even though he has no class whatsoever. He made big plays for them down the stretch. But he has no class whatsoever. He's such a great player, you would think he'd have some class and be the great player that he is. The things he was saying to (Justin) Cage and me were just ridiculous.

They threw a lot of pucks and threw a lot of bodies, and hacked and whacked. It was a battle in front of our cage the whole night.

They think the world revolves around them and they are not considerate. They are not kind. They are trapped in a cage of narcissism we have built for them.

A lot of teams are keying on Stan. What people don't realize is that they're keying on him so much, it's opening up things for others. It's given other people opportunities to score. Cage has been playing really good. He's been playing great actually - rebounding and doing everything.

There's a bit of a new guard of contemporary classical musicians in New York, and we play a lot of different kinds of music together. We do pop studio sessions, and we'll also play John Cage and more avant-garde work. We're developing a language of music that comes with a lot of different styles, different kinds of work.

This market used to be a knife fight. Now it's a cage match, and everyone has chain saws.

a cage match between Gilliams sensibilities and the more traditional Hollywood concerns

a cage match between Gilliam's sensibilities and the more traditional Hollywood concerns

It's tough to get your timing back after missing almost an entire season. No matter how much you hit in batting practice and in the cage it's different when you are facing live pitching and someone who is trying to get you out.

It's only a matter of time before practices like cramming nine hens into an 18-by-20-inch wire mesh cage for their entire lives is made illegal.

It's been a tough year for us. You can always make excuses, but I don't like to. We've just got a lot of freshmen that had never played the game before, and they did everything I asked them to do. And next year they will know the how much extra work in the batting cage and in the field that we need to do in order to get better.

Do not cage God in a picture frame,Do not confine him in an idol,He is all forms; He is all Names.

Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions - everyone but a school bus driver.

Oh my gosh, he is unbelievable. I was down taking some swings in the cage and I saw that thing going out and the whole place just erupted. You know when certain guys get up there it's just another day at the office. They don't think of it as a big play. In their minds they just know what they want to do, then they hit it and enjoy it.

I wanted to play today and get some at-bats and see pitches without the cage around me before going to the WBC. It was good to see and recognize some pitches.

They was really nasty about it. They was really hateful about it. They just drug him out of there and put in a cage with about four other dogs. We just want our dogs back.

It was just so good to win an overtime game. I just feel like it would have been a disaster to lose a third game in overtime, and it was really important going into the next couple games to put one in the cage and end it.

I want to take Justin Bieber for a month and just lock him up in a cage where we sit and make music. He's one of the most successful people in the world, but his music could be so much tighter.

The judge goes to the cage and will stretch the cat out, look at their head and test their muscle tone.

The feather picking in the Orange-winged Amazons has a very strong genetic component. Another effect, and this blew us away, was where the cage was in the room relative to the door.

I'm gonna break I'm gonna break my I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run

In 'Honeymoon in Vegas,' after Nicolas Cage tells his fiancee that he's given her away to pay for his gambling debts, she gets into a tizzy as if she were a 6-year-old. I couldn't believe it.

I'm really happy with the play of Ian and Tommy. Tommy played really well in the cage for us today.

I'm carrying the ball a lot tighter to my rib cage and up a little higher. I take those turnovers last year to heart. Those turnovers were costly and this year I'm going to try my best to prevent them.

If there's beer flying at us, it's all good, brother. We started playing tiny redneck bars up in northern Canada where there's tons of beer flying and wire cage protecting the band and all sorts of stuff. So we're down with the party.

I remember seeing that movie with Nicolas Cage and whoever, where they're both alcoholics and she's a prostitute, and they're... built!

I hope I'm retired by 2012. If force-feeding a duck is cruel, then packing chickens in a cage is cruel, and then the veal and the beef. We are all going to be vegetarians soon if they have their way. We should probably start converting now.

I have to give Hundt credit for recognizing the changed competitive landscape since 1997. Long-distance has largely been cannibalized by the rise of rigorous wireless competition and flat-rate nationwide calling plans. The Internet is everywhere, which means IP-enabled calling is a new threat to the old players. And the old Bell copper empire has now become a copper cage they are fighting their way out of.

Chuck, don't be jealous because my win-loss record is better than yours. Besides, we both know I'm training to be a cage fighter.

Cage was huge for us off the bench. I thought his play on both ends, not just his shots, but the physicality he played with on defense and his energy was really a key for us.

Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They're doing great things for European MMA, and they're giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They're vital. I'm forever grateful for the opportunities I got.

Him taking swings in a college batting cage is a long way from doing baseball work with us, ... It's just another step in his rehab. To what extent this is of any significance -- until I'm told otherwise -- it's just part of the exercise regimen he's going through. Once he's accelerated to the point where the doctors are ready to turn him over to us, then he can do more meaningful and substantial baseball activities. But for now, this is just another step.

He's exhibited major-league power in the minor leagues and we've seen some flashes of it at this level. He's working hard in (batting practice) and he's working hard in the cage and hitting the ball hard where it's pitched.

He sits in the cage for hours upon hours upon hours. That's all he thinks about. That's all he really cares about. Hitting. All he wants to do is be in the cage and be in the video room. Cage, video room, cage, video room.

I don't know if I would personally want to step in the cage and either have my face caved in or cave in somebody else's, but I've met some really beautiful and sensitive and morally pretty stout individuals who happen to be fighters. It's really awesome.

I became very angry about the fact that I'd been talked into going to these Cage concerts when I was in college, that I'd sat and tried to make myself like that stuff and think in those terms. I felt I'd been brainwashed, that it was a kind of damage to my sensibilities. I'm still mad about this.

The heart of a woman falls back with the night,/ And enters some alien cage in its plight,/ And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars,/ While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.

The freedom she had, once out of her cage -- it empowered her,

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo