Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Corso

I think it's good. I love that kind of adversity, you know? Adversity and distractions only make us tougher.

Dan Morgan

I think it's definitely taught us a lot, ... Last year, having some injuries, you learn how to deal with adversity. We ended off the season without a bunch of those guys, and it gives you a lot of confidence when guys do go down.

Pat Garrity

I think the key to the win streak is people going through a lot of drama like we were and then just finally saying, 'Let's just push that all aside. Sometimes a little adversity brings people closer together and maybe that's the case here.

Flip Saunders

I think the one thing that people underestimate is that when there's adversity and they become challenged they rise up to the occasion. They love those types of situations. That's why this team is built for the playoffs.

Jason Brandt

I thought Brian threw very well. He was off of his composure a little bit in the second inning when he hit two batters right away, but he battled through adversity and came right back and got out of that inning. He threw the ball well. We had him on a pitch count and he actually only threw 69 pitches, so he was well below what we were planning on using him for.

Amani Toomer

I think when we went to San Diego and he had all of that adversity, it really brought out the best in him. I think now he knows how good he can be, and he is doing a great job throwing the ball down the field and getting everybody involved.

Caron Butler

I think the character of this team has already been revealed in the face of adversity. Early on, when a lot of people were writing us off, I think we bounced back. Coach did a great job of getting the right guys out there, the rotation was good and we stepped up. Now this is another challenge. We've got to step up. It's a must that we go .500 or better, and I think we are prepared to do that.

Barbara Green

There is hope and very often people come out of adversity for the better.

John Tortorella

We talked about this as an organization before we started the season. We felt there were going to be some bumps and quite a bit of adversity coming through, and we've seen it. But it's a learning experience. We are going to have to learn to deal with it. We are going to have to have a better second half, and I believe we will.

Andy Pettitte

I was just bad, ... I threw a lot of balls right in the heart of the zone.

Tim Doyle

I was looking to give him the ball immediately. I probably won't tell Coach that, but he'll probably see it in the paper.

Will Harris

I was looking for a ball away the entire at-bat. I fouled a couple off, pitches that I could have hit. He kept living out there and left me one up that I could handle.

Milan Baros

Kevin is a great player, like (Villa substitute Juan Pablo) Angel. He gave me a great ball and it was a shame he couldn't take his chance when I passed to him. But I think he is going to score a lot of goals for this club.

Buck Showalter

Kevin had a great spring. He started off slow, having a nagging injury, but he is starting to swing the bat well. He is seeing the ball well and centers the ball so well. Kevin is so strong that the ball has a lot of carry. He can just power the ball out of here.

Norv Turner

Kerry gave the (Houston) safety a quick pump and he just went flying to Randy. They actually had a guy underneath and both safeties running to him. When (Collins) threw the ball outside to Doug, it's a big play.

Matthew Stevens

Ken played fantastic and didn't miss more than five or six balls all the way through.

Dennis Perry

Kenny will do double duty. He runs the ball well and catches it well.

Matthew Hoggard

Knowing there was hard work to be done, we tried to put the ball in the right areas.

Keke Palmer

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Krispy Kreme claims the 'batter is the best part.' Same with an Obama speech. It's all about what's on the outside, not what's inside.

Katherine Paterson

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

Larry Hughes

I was just dealing with it, playing through it, but I knew something was wrong. This was the best time to do it. If it was later in the year, I would've kept playing.

Evgeni Nabokov

Kipper is a confident guy right now back there and, defensively, they're one of the best teams in the league. Their identity is they're not going to score four or five goals, they're going to score two or three, but it's going to be enough to win.

Mike Gansey

Kevin is one of the best all-around players in the conference. He's obviously one of the best shooters and his inside play has improved this season. Kevin is a big part of our team.

Bill Schneider

Kerry's line is, 'If this is the best we can do, we're in trouble,'

Katharine DeBrecht

Know-it-all liberal celebrities are in our faces every day, telling people how to live, what to buy, and often how to vote. Children need to understand that just because these people show up on television doesn't mean they know what's best for the rest of America. In fact, it's usually quite the opposite!

Bryce Carter

Knowing someone has your back like that, to be there and do the best for you, it was a great opportunity.

Dax Maier

I was just a little scared because, one, what if I miss it; two, what if I slip, I might fall into the river. And so I just kept on looking up and got directions, and then next thing you know I was on the gondola and they brought us down.

Chadd Moore

James brought him to me. I saw he wasn't paying no attention, so I just took a chance and stole the ball.

Keith Johnson

John brought it out front and I crashed the net. I was yelling for the puck and he got it over to me.

E. Hicks

John has brought a new level of professionalism to the Texas Rangers over the last four years. During his tenure the organization has improved on the field at the major league level while enhancing the minor league system.

Matt Williams

John has been brought in to learn about international preparation and at this stage it is just part of his development. But we would be looking for him to be knocking on the door of international selection in the near future.

Troy Glaus

J.P. has brought in pitchers and hitters to help out and that's just what we're going to try and do. We're going to try to put this team back to the level it's been before and the level it deserves to be.

Charles Sims

I think it's a big victory for Rosie. Who doesn't?, ... Rosie didn't want this fight. She wouldn't have brought this lawsuit if they didn't sue her (first). She just wanted to show that the claims were unjustified.

Greg Jones

It came down to offensive execution. We found a way to get runners on base, move them over and then get the big hit that brought them around. We got into a couple situations with two strikes and two outs and finished with some really good at-bats.

Anthony Veliz

It came down to a phone call. Grayson called me and brought the idea up. The IBL season works with his (And1 Tour) schedule, so it's a no-brainer.

Marco Killingsworth

It isn't like the Big Ten, where you play each team over and over and see each other on TV every night. You know the teams you are playing. I don't know anything about San Diego State, and they don't know anything about us. It is a fresh start for everyone.

Jandy Nelson

I was actually born in New York, and spent some of my childhood in Boston. But my family moved to San Diego when I was 12, and I went to high school here.

Ron Roberts

Our relationship with San Diego County, as we all know, is not really that good,

Rodrigo Santoro

I need to surf - surf and yoga. Whenever I'm in L.A., I go down to San Diego to surf for the weekend, and I always come back perfect.

Jim Tressel

I'm not sure San Diego State was as good as the last two offenses we've played.

Paul Archey

I'm not sure you get a ticket in San Diego at this point, and if you do you'll have an obstructed view. We sold every ticket there in very quick fashion.

Alan G. Poindexter

I flew fighters for the Navy in San Diego for three years, went and did my post-graduate education, and then I was a test pilot in Patuxent River, Maryland, for a few years. I was back in the fleet in the Navy when I was selected to come back here to NASA to become an astronaut.

Jeff Kurtz

And just this year, we started doing live video for games, but only for our San Diego games. This is our second year doing state, but last year we only did the San Diego teams. Now we're expanding to do everyone.

John Beck

All I'm focused on is San Diego State.

Robert Jordan

I was like 'We're going to need you, keep your head up.' It was more him getting comfortable. Everybody knows he can play ball.

Charles Rhodes

I was letting everybody know I will be back next year. No NBA for me.

Ronnie Anderson

Kitchens are forevermore an integral part of the home. Everybody wants larger kitchens and they are willing to spend more money on better appliances.

Mark Fulghum

Kids killing kids. Everybody loses: Someone loses a son, someone loses a kid because they're gonna go to prison. Many, many times, totally innocent people are the victims and they don't have anything to do with what's going on.

Dave Meade

Jaclyn had a good game for us. Everybody played well and got a lot of playing time.

James Devlin

I would see everybody outside playing one-on-one, so I went out and started playing. I've been playing ever since.

Judy Rose

I would say to them like everybody else that loses their jobs, look for better employment.

Rita Cosby

Katrina made a lot of us in the media realize that we can't undersell a hurricane. News organizations, the government, everybody now realizes you've got to take Mother Nature seriously.

John Smoltz

Just like everybody else, he's going to have to go through it. You've got to figure it out yourself. It's what everybody has had to do.

Chuck Darby

He was a good kid. I'd see him on the practice field. He would ride on the team planes. This is a tough situation and my heart goes out to the family.

Dick Vermeil

He wants to play. I trust him because I know how unselfish he is. If he didn't think he could step in and run our game plan, he would tell me. As you saw on the practice field today, he's very sharp. He knows what he's doing.

Jose Gonzalez

He keeps getting better all the time, and today he was sharp. It was a good field and this was a good win.

Willie Randolph

He knows his body, he knows what he has to do to get ready. He might not have been on the field a lot (in Florida), but I trust him. And when he tells me he s ready to go, I give him the ball.

Hines Ward

He laid it on the line. He's lying there hurt on the ground, and he said to me, 'At least we're in field goal range.

Tim Cleland

This was one of the toughest, if not the toughest, fields we've had.

Ken Jr.

What we've seen from Wayne is that he's a guy trying to put a winning team on the field now. It's not about six, seven years from now. It's about what happens now. That comes from the ownership. When the ownership wants to win, it just trickles down.

Michael Vick

Guys are four and five yards down the field and I'm throwing bullets. You can't do that.

Joe Thornton

He's a good leader. He's a real good field general, getting the guys lined up.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Michael Young

Kevin will be fine. He's going to have a big year. He's a good hitter. It's just a matter of getting him hot, and sometimes it takes a little longer than you'd like.

Jim Sullivan

Kevin's times this year are just a shade off of what Jesse Bentley used to run, ... I think he'll have a really good year.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Tony Couture

Jake?s a great story. He?s played through an injury this year, had some rocky roads but he played outstanding tonight and made some great saves.

Brent DeRuyter

Jake had a great year last season as a sophomore. He should be even better this season.

Greg Jackson

Kids who come here, I see them grow. My philosophy is not winning and losing. When I see a kid like Tracey, it puts this job in perspective.

Travis Moyer

Jordan did a very nice job out there. He pitched excellent. He only made one mistake.

Scott Rice

Joey's a talented kid. He did a nice job on his routes.

Matt McKay

Joe did an outstanding job on Biggs. We didn't want him shooting 3s.

Galen Hall

Joe did a miraculous job keeping that squad from not splitting offensively and defensively.

John Caudwell

Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school.

Garrett Gravesen

Jobs can wait, but the lives of these kids cannot. And because no one else was doing anything else about it.

Glen Smith

He viewed it as a job that had to be done.

Allard Baird

He comes into Spring Training where it's his job to lose.

Pete Boone

He wanted to be here. He knows that he can be a success here. He's been a success before. He knows what it takes.

Chris Moore

He can split through two guys, and nobody knows how he got through,

Craig Smith

He knows the biotech world very well. We need someone like that at this stage.

Larry Coker

He knows that there is that window of opportunity and he has to respond,

Freddy Adu

He knows me, so he'll probably know what I'm up to, but I've matured a lot since I went pro,

Phillip Daniels

He knows me. I'm his teacher. I taught him everything he knows.

Dave Collins

He knows it's time to perform or go to the 7-Eleven. . . . The opportunity is here.

Sam Roberts

He knows it's going to be a whirlwind. He's pretty overwhelmed right now.

E. O. Wilson

He knows I love him no matter what. He doesn't use negative comments. But he's a real motivator, and sometimes he doesn't do it in a positive way just so he can get a reaction from you.

Richard M. Nixon

It is sad that it was necessary that Santa Barbara should be the example that had to bring it to the attention of the American people. What is involved is the use of our resources of the sea and of the land in a more effective way and with more concern for preserving the beauty and the natural resources that are so important to any kind of society that we want for the future. The Santa Barbara incident has frankly touched the conscience of the American people.

Rebecca Hall

No family is sane, is it?

Robert Toombs

They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories.

Thomas Campbell

Our bugles sang truce - for the night-cloud had lowered, / And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky.

Clint Hurdle

In San Francisco, they can whoop and holler and hooray for Barry. But here, we want to get him out and win a ballgame.

Jerry Nelson

I not only worked with him, I sang a song with him.

Jacque Fresco

If all things keep changing, how can you become sane?

Mark Twain

I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.

Muddy Waters

The thing about San Francisco is that it has this kind of magical quality.

Joe Mauer

He's just touching up. He was a up a little bit, but he was throwing hard.

Mike Hampton

If you're durable, if you're used to throwing a lot, ... I don't think there is any problem.

Gerald Laird

I'm throwing good, my thumb is 100 percent,

Rick Peterson

Any time you have a lot of time off that's always a concern. It is always a factor, but he's done a lot of throwing (in the bullpen).

Bobby Bowden

I wanted to see what we could do throwing the ball,

Mike Holmgren

They have you outnumbered just a little bit. Now it is safer, I suppose, than throwing a pass, but you can't worry too much about that.

Bill Parcells

Not at all. He was just throwing it indiscriminately then.

David Berry

You can't keep throwing us around. Accommodate your own people.

Jack Kokinda

This is the time of year you want him throwing this way.