Famous Quotes & Sayings

Darryl Tapp

Teams are remembered by their last game. Our last game, we lost to Florida State, so we have to get that bad taste out of our mouths and go out there and do our job. We can be one of the greatest teams in Virginia Tech history and go out there and win 11 games. That's a big statement, so there's a lot on the line and we all know that.

John Gibbons

Ted (Lilly) has a bad back right now, something he felt the day after his last start (March 26). So we'll give him an extra day of rest and have Josh (Towers) start the second game and Lilly the third.

Chan Gailey

Tell me how bad the field was beat up.

M. Hopper

Sometimes my teams get a bad rap of hanging onto the ball too much. We're trying to score. It's just the way we play.

Linda Jay

Right now there's nothing too, too bad to focus on. As long as things stay calm in the Middle East, I think this continues.

Glenn McAninch

Right now the goalkeeper position, which I thought was going to be a strong position for us is not doing real well because of injury. It's just bad luck, sometimes that happens to a team. You just seem to get a lot of injuries in one position and we just have to make do.

Proverb Proverb

Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Robert Esche

Pressure isn't a bad word. It's a great word. It gives you tunnel vision and let's you focus on the task at hand.

Brian Dobie

Pressure is a good thing. Pressure is not a bad thing. So if we were to win in Saskatoon that's all well and good -- and I want that to happen -- but I have no problem with us being in a pressure situation all the way down to the bitter end.

The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much, but he felt it was better than what everybody else did, which was go up to the volcano and collect the gold nuggets it shot out every day. It turned out he was right. After forty years, the volcano petered out. Everybody left town, and the hardware store went broke. Finally he decided to collect gold nuggets too, but there weren't many left by then. Plus, he broke his leg and the doctor's bills were real high.

P. J. O'Rourke

When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital.

Steve Cavezza

All of the guys in my fraternity are my brothers. You want to give everyone a fair shot. It's very hard to those seniors that might not get a chance.

Jon Holmes

The performance of the national team is very important. This season soccer has been fairly abysmal.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Thomas Jefferson

That government that governs least governs best.

Thomas Jefferson

I'd rather have newspapers and no government than government and no newspapers.

Thomas Jefferson

Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.

Thomas Jefferson

A free government is of all others the most energetic.

Thomas Jefferson

If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press.

Thomas Jefferson

Government governed least is government governed best.

Thomas Jefferson

The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.

Thomas Jefferson

Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.

John Oliver

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

Buddy Guy

I said, I'm going to stand up and somebody is going to pay attention to me.

Alan Zweibel

I've been writing for people long enough to know that it has got to feel comfortable coming out of their mouths, especially when you're doing something that is first person and is so near and dear to you.

Jessica Simpson

I've come to realize that the more I censor myself, the less people relate to me.

Ryan Clark

I've been proving people wrong for a long time,

Tim Miles

I've been in that situation a lot. People look at you like they're going to whip you.

Brad Wilkerson

I've been in this organization, the Montreal/Nationals organization, from the onset of it. It's just a shock that I'm not going to be with the same organization, the same people I've been around my whole career. That's going to be different.

Mandy Moore

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

Christie Brinkley

I urge people to make your workout fun.

Robert Gerard

I unequivocally think there is no place for steroids in the sport. There are tens of thousands of young people that look up to these athletes.

Ted Strickland

The zeitgeist is clear. People in this state want change. They're tired of scandal. They want to turn things around, and that's just what we are going to do.