Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. B. White

We have to take a new look at our athletic program and decide how we can best maximize our resources,

Gigi Hadid

I'm an athletic person. But I love my body because I know what it's been through to be what it is. And honestly I'm not going to change for someone that is depressed about their life.

Keion Carpenter

He can be the best I've ever seen. He already has the athletic intangibles. If he can get the smarts of Peyton Manning, the swagger of Joe Montana, you put all that in one pot, and I'm going to put my money on my guy every time.

Wayne Clough

He brings a unique combination of enthusiasm for sports, concern for the student, experience in athletic administration, business experience and communication skills that are needed in today's complex world of intercollegiate athletics.

Jessie Evans

He probably came back in the best condition of any of our guys. He had some success last year and wanted to build on that. He's matured. He likes the offensive stuff we do. And defensively we give him some freedom to show his athletic ability.

Kyle Whittingham

If he had not hurt his shoulder . . . you probably would have seen him as the starting stud linebacker long before now, ... He's just a guy who's a naturally athletic kid - he had 30-something interceptions in high school - and he's a playmaker.

Chris Rich

I consider this group of trainers our peers in sports medicine, ... because they are on the front line. The are always available, even when they are not working. They've got good hearts and the love doing what they do. That's why this honor was somewhat humbling, and it was a difficult speech for me. These people are all dedicated to athletic health care, and that's what I try to do in my community.

Laurie Markatos

Carroll was awesome. She's been pitching well and stepping up her game. She fits right in on the varsity level. She's tall and looks very athletic out there and when she throws the ball, she's a real presence.

Brad Todd

He's good at tying up the other guys, but we want him to open up a little more, which will make him even more of threat. He's an athletic kid, works hard in practice. We'd like to see him take it to the next level.

Don Pooley

I've played well every week, but there's this one guy that's been beating me every week.

Chris Simms

You see some teams that are demoralized by injuries. We're one team ... that's confident we won't miss a beat whether it's the first-string guy or the second-string guy.

Matt Leinart

You saw that with Fresno State, who after us completely went downhill, and that's a really good football team. And that's a perfect example of really giving us their best shot and giving everything they can to beat USC, and then they don't have enough to beat (Louisiana) Tech and Nevada, teams that they should beat by 20, 30 points. That's why what we've done is so special.

Chris Cameron

You're not going to beat a team that's doing that. And we can't let them do that.

Mike Carey

You're not going to beat a team like Rutgers shooting like that.

Aaron Rowand

You're not always going to get out of the gate going good. The best thing you can do is look forward to the next day. If you dwell on this, and let it beat you up, you're going to kill yourself.

Brandon Jones

You're going to get beat here and there. For the most part, I'm here to make plays. This is my first day out here. It's going to pick up in a little while.

Jeff Saturday

You never like to get beat at home. Splitting at each team's stadium is not the way to do it.

Jim Leavitt

You never liked to get whopped on like that. They beat us pretty good. A new year is a new year: different people and different players.

Don Pooley

I've played well every week, but there's this one guy that's been beating me every week.

I think college administrators should encourage students to urinate on walls and bushes, because then when students from another college come sniffing around, they'll know this is someone else's territory.

Tom Rose

Once he adjusts to the college game, he's going to be a very good player. He's already very strong.

Polly Adler

It's not the college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.

Bob Jr

They'd use wood rather than aluminum bats, so you'd get a better idea of what to expect. The first thing a minor-league pro will do to a college hitter is to come inside. The pitchers tried, Troy made the adjustments.

Tasha Lukachik

There were 300 college students trying to fill this big tent with a wooden floor.

Bruce Freeman

This is very, very competitive. Three-quarters of the kids that play here end up with a full-ride scholarship to a university or college in the United States.

Sasho Cirovski

This is the start of something very, very big. Having a consistent weekly time slot will increase the visibility and significance of college soccer nation-wide. We look forward toward the future expansion of this package with the goal of highlighting even more programs and players.

Shek Borkowski

It's a great league for college players, or maybe someone in their early 20s, who wants to play at the higher levels. But there is no money in it for anyone. Everyone does it because they love the game.

Chris Spielman

It's a dream game for college football fans.

Bobby Carter

They (Terre Haute North) execute so well. To be able to win 14 games in the conference they play in (Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference) shows how good they are.

Matt Watson

You don't want to lose any conference games. We're just trying to get some wins in the conference. We're going to try to turn it around.

Bob Uecker

The MRI scan looked like I had swallowed a cantaloupe. It was an abdominal aortic aneurysm. I was shocked because, except for the back pain, I felt good.

Chuck Reed

We need those officers. We pay them well in order to keep them, and that's why they got raises.

Kathleen Huddy

Unfortunately, over the years, manufacturers and retailers, in order to sell more sheets, have pushed thread count.

Thomas Browne

There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.

Robert A. Heinlein

A motion to adjourn is always in order.

Mark Parker

Designers are by nature more inquisitive, more connected. They dig a little deeper in terms of insights. They turn those insights into innovation. That connection to the consumer is absolutely critical in driving innovation. It’s critical that design isn’t subjugated to the back room as a short order cook for marketing or for merchandising or sales. It has to be up front.

Joan Didion

I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead.

Jimi Hendrix

In order to change the world, I guess a person would have to really get his head together first before he can say anything to the world, to change it.

Jimi Hendrix

A person would have to change himself in order to be a living example of what he's singing about.

John McCain

The 'Main Street' retailers ... see customers come to the store to locate items ... only to leave and order the items over the Internet just to escape the sales tax.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Johnny Giles

Home advantage is usually an advantage to the home team

Michael Jordan

I can remember a game, we were down with about 5 to 10 points, I go off about 25 points, we come back and win the game, we're walking off the floor. Tex (Winter) looks at me and says "There's no "I" in team!" I looked at Tex and say, "There's not, but there's an 'I' in win!

Cathy Martin

She tends to take the team on her back. The team relies on her to lead.

Jim Harbaugh

I love people, I really do. I'm a people person. I think that's a strength of mine. I love being around people, especially in a team setting.

Jacqueline McKenzie

I love being part of the team.

Gary Neville

When you join this club as a young player you know you've got a mountain to climb to get yourself into the first team. (on Manchester United)

Jack Brickhouse

Any team can have a bad century.

Jay Leno

A Pakistan businessman is claiming that John Walker Lindh is gay and that he was his lover. Say what you will about Lindh, but when this guy goes to play for the other team - he goes all the way ... So Lindh may be both a terrorist and a gay man. That may be John Ashcroft's worst nightmare.