Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juan Dixon

First of all, I want to apologize to my coach, teammates and the organization. That was way out of my character and I was wrong. I was frustrated, thought I had been fouled a number of times trying to get the ball up the court and I just really wanted to win this game.

Andy Roddick

I apologize to the loyal fans and sponsors that have expected my participation in Tennis Masters Cup, ... It is an honor for me to have qualified for this event for the third-straight year.

Matt Lawton

I apologize to the fans, the game, my family and all those people that I let down. I'm truly sorry and deeply regret my terrible lapse in judgment.

Boris Yeltsin

I apologize to the families of the victims. I apologize, because I carry the responsibility for it all, ... I also declare we will fight (the bombers) mercilessly.

Micah Downs

I apologize to my former teammates and coaches for leaving at midyear. I feel I can best deal with some personal problems closer to home that have been weighing on me over the last few months. I wish KU the best the rest of the season.

Carl Edwards

I apologize to Kyle and his fans. I should have done a better job of slowing down.

Jim Compton

I apologize to all parents, but I don't have any choices, ... We will work the the parents on an installment pay plan if necessary.

Masahiko Harada

I apologize to all of the officials, the people who supported me, and the Japanese jumpers who missed out on a place on the team.

Tony Dang

I apologize. I feel sorry for people who got gift cards and can't redeem (them.) I apologize and feel real bad.

Donald Kettl

As catastrophic an event as 9/11 was, it was at least geographically bounded,

Steve Roukis

a one-time event but part of doing business, so if you split the difference, (profit per share) is 99 cents.

Vince Lombardi

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

Daily Express

The terrible events of yesterday were like scenes from a Hollywood fantasy film,

Joss Whedon

I used to write chronologically when I started, from beginning to end. Eventually I went, 'That's absurd; my heart is in this one scene, therefore I must follow it.'

Ann Williams

The water was waist deep, ... We grabbed all the kids and held them up because the water eventually got up to our necks.

James Thurber

This is an old story that keeps repeating: The people who are way out there and pushing the limits of power, they eventually are pushed out themselves. Jim Wright and Newt Gingrich did that, and they went. Now Tom DeLay. It was just a matter of time.

Philip Rivers

That's good. You have to play those (top) teams eventually anyway.

Chris Morris

You see young people, or kids, and they're fascinated by the way people talk. And that's great. But eventually you get to the point where you think, 'You know what? I don't care how you talk, I'm just listening to what you're saying.'

Robert Vincent

People are very sad. Our people called and gave because they knew it would be there for generations. We just never expected this.

Shlomo Yosef

The situation is still serious, but it's stable. All the parameters ... are as expected following this type of surgery. Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

O. Winston Link

I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

Thuy Trang

We never expected the show to be this great. We think it is successful because kids can identify.

Jussi Hyoty

We had not expected such strong growth. I suppose we were a little overcautious.

Daniel Barcelo

While the refining outlook is expected to remain highly profitable through 2007, the equities have for the most part priced this in.

Aaron Gagnon

We all expected more, to go farther than this. It's happened. There's nothing we can do about it.

Michael Watkins

Every month during GRACE's 5-year expected lifetime we will get a map of Earth's gravitational field.

Stanislas Wawrinka

I never expected to win a Grand Slam because, for me, I was not good enough to beat those guys.

Colin McRae

Rally GB is obviously very special to me, and I am looking forward to giving the fans something to cheer,

P. James

We're gonna have some fun here. We always have a good time on this team. I've been getting out to see a few things and the fans have been great to me.

Brendan Fehr

I'm not a big fan of rehearsing.

Brad Delson

I was a big Transformers fan.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

Fans are afraid to meet me. They're sort of afraid for their lives and won't look me in the eye.

Cameron Diaz

I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?

Alan Cumming

I'm not a fan of Twitter.

Bret Michaels

I do meet-and-greets at every show and meet a minimum of 20-35 fans at each.

Tim Tessalone

We use them for the fans and as a revenue generator,

Gurudas Dasgupta

The strike will go on. We're ready for a settlement, but it has to be an honorable settlement.

Brenda Lee

The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.

Dick Cheney

We are here to honor the memory of seven lost explorers,

Desiderius Erasmus

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

Edmund Hillary

Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!

Ali Khamenei

The honor of about 30 million votes remains with the Iranian nation and no enemy scheme would take away this dignity and honor from the Iranian nation.

Alexander Hamilton

The institution of delegated power implies that there is a portion of virtue and honor among mankind which may be a reasonable foundation of confidence.

Dwayne Johnson

It's important for everybody to creatively honor him in the best way that we possibly can.

Arthur Koestler

War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars.

Calvin Coolidge

If there is to be responsible party government, the party label must be something more than a mere device for securing office. Unless those who are elected under the same party designation are willing to assume sufficient responsibility and exhibit sufficient loyalty and coherence, so that they can cooperate with each other in the support of the broad general principles, of the party platform, the election is merely a mockery, no decision is made at the polls, and there is no representation of the popular will.

Bryant H. McGill

Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.

Alain de Botton

The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.

Charlene Li

Companies need connections to their markets to create long-term loyalty.

Charles Evans Hughes

We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest our loyalty to the commands and restrictions laid down by our sovereign, the people of the United States, in whose name and by whose will we exercise our brief authority.

Elbert Hubbard

If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

Aristotle

There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative capacity; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form of government.

Ben Hecht

Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.

Lee Westwood

The story of the week is you have got to putt well to win the Masters and I haven't putted well.

Amory Lovins

The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion.

Steven Pressfield

Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.

Zeresenay Alemseged

I was going to France to do my masters and my Ph.D., but I didn't know how to say, 'bonjour.' You really feel like a baby, starting everything from scratch.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Somehow, conductor as this superhuman conduit between the masters and the masterpieces and the immortals.

Francis Bacon

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.

George Herbert

Everyone is a master and servant.

George Herbert

A master of straw eates a servant of steele.

Christine Feehan

Amanda Ashley is a master storyteller.

Jesse Ventura

Some felt I'm not academically qualified, and they're right.

Michael Zolensky

By this week, more than 200 samples will be circulating. Everyone who wants one, and who is qualified to do the analysis, will have one.

Arthur Ashe

Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.

Clive James

John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.

Donald Young

I love tennis. Without it I don't know what I would do.

Andre Agassi

My only good result in 1997 was marrying Brooke Shields.

Anna Kournikova

It's not really a shorter skirt, I just have longer legs

Althea Gibson

Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.

Andy Murray

Well, my mum's been a tennis coach - she coached me till I was 12.

Andy Roddick

Is that the longest fifth set ever? It was? So, no, I've never played one longer than that!

Andy Roddick

I don't want to live and die with every point that's being played out there now. I'm going to let my coach live and die with every point.