Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brett Hull

I'm realistic. And realistically, I'm not that type of player that earns that type of money any more. So I'd be willing to take a little cut to get a couple of extra years.

Brett Hull

If you have an active mind, it always helps. You know, people who don't do crosswords, their minds fall asleep. That's why I do them-my mind is always working. One day my brain is going to explode through the top of my head.

Babe Ruth

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

Babe Ruth

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

Ashton Eaton

I want to see where I measure up against everyone in the world and everyone who has ever competed in the sport, and there's that innate sense of wanting to challenge myself. I'm competitive in all aspects.

Arthur Ashe

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.

Arthur Ashe

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

Arthur Ashe

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

Arnold Schwarzenegger

There are bodybuilders who are afraid of indulging in sex or even of playing other sports for fear of harming their bodies. I think that's silly. What's the use of building your body if you don't use it?

Dick Cheney

A senator can be wrong for 20 years without consequence to the nation, ... But a president, a president, always casts the deciding vote. And in this time of challenge, America needs -- and America has -- a president we can count on to get it right.

Leigh Steinberg

As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.

Dave Blood

The boys on Pennsylvania Avenue have convinced a whole lot of the public that What's His Whiskers had something to do with 9/11. Stay tuned.

Nancy Reagan

A woman is like a teabag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.

E. B. White

A writer is like a bean plant, he has his little day, and then he gets stringy.

William Cullen Bryant

A world of blossoms for the bee, Flowers for the sick girl's silent room, For the glad infant sprigs of bloom, We plant with the apple tree.

Ari Fleischer

Reading and math scores nationally have been declining for past ten years. There's a real worry in America about whether children will be safe in school.

Studs Terkel

promising authors in a range of fields who share Studs' fascination with everyday life in America.

James Zogby

Our silence in the face of the horrific abuses that are taking place on a daily basis in fact are causing people throughout the Middle East to ask serious questions about America and about its commitment to its values.

Janet Jackson

That's a part of me going back to what I used to do.

T. D. Jakes

It is possible for you to get a grip on the thing that used to have a grip on you. And instead of it controlling you- you are now controlling it.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There 's nothing like being used to a thing.

Rebecca Lobo

Petty things don't bother me as much as they used to.

John Steinbeck

There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.

Freema Agyeman

I used to be absolutely addicted to the gym and I do still love it.

William Saroyan

I used to throw things out, saying, 'This isn't great.' It didn't occur to me that it didn't have to be great.

Walt Kelly

Women aren't as mere as they used to be.

Yogi Berra

The future isn't what is used to be.