First of all, you want umpires to call what they see. In the case of fair or foul, the smartest thing is to call the ball fair. Because if it's called foul and ruled fair, where do we put the runners?
I was actually born in Sacramento, in Rocklin, which is a suburb of Sacramento. I lived there for the first 8 years of my life.
I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.
For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week.
The first dog I got was a border collie. Her name was Sally.
I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford. So I workshopped the entire thing.
The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen's 'Vibez,' it was used in Drake's '0-100' as a sample.
I am very conscious of first sampling the music and then getting it out for fans.
I was very lucky that my first film, 'The Blind Side,' I worked with Sandra Bullock.
First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on the satin finish so you look good.
I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school on Saturdays. It was my first political trick.
When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals.
Our first 100 rides took us one-and-a-half years from the time we started in January 2011. It was only after that we started scaling up rapidly.
I'm the first to admit that the resolution of a hand feeling the belly doesn't compare with the resolution of a CAT scan scanning the belly, but only my hand can say that it hurts at this spot and not at this spot. Only my hand can say that.
During my first season at Manchester, the team was not performing, and I was the scapegoat.
I remember the first scary movie I ever watched was 'Scream,' and I watched it at a sleepover.
It's a first for me. It's my first nude scene.
The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.
Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.
