Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Hearns

Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night.

Bobby Thomson

I was a raw rookie in Arizona during spring training in 1947, but I could do three things. I could run. I had a good arm. And I could hit with power.

Dick Lane

I thought it was pretty good to be mentioned in a big paper, so I decided to keep the nickname.

Cy Young

I thought I had to show all my stuff and I almost tore the boards of the grandstand with my fastball.

Carly Patterson

I thought I had gotten second, but I didn't, so I was really happy.

Franco Harris

We just did a lot of things together as a team off the field and we really shared a lot of special moments off the field just as much as on the field.

Joe Namath

You learn you can do your best even when it's hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.

Dennis Rodman

Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.

Isiah Thomas

Where we sit now, I don't think we have the luxury of the 20 teams before us. I think we are going after the best players we can get on the board.

If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something

Noah Lowry

Any time you go out there and you've got a shutout going, of course you want to finish it. It was the right move. I still have seven starts left and I want to be ready in five days. ... It's a tough situation for him, but he made the right choice.

David Toms

It's hard to make a golf course that will please everybody. What you try to do is make one that everybody can play and then it doesn't necessarily play into one person's type of game. That's what we tried to do here.

David Brown

It's a very popular invitational. They like the course around the lake, and it's a pretty good setting for the teams to set up. It's good for the fans, because you can see the runners for a lot of the time.

David Brown

It's a very popular invitational, ... They like the course around the lake, and it's a pretty good setting for the teams to set up. It's good for the fans, because you can see the runners for a lot of the time.

Duffy Waldorf

It's been a long time since I've been on top. It's nice. But on a course like this, you've got to keep your focus. If you've got the opportunities to keep shooting for birdies, you've got to do it.

Nick Vitucci

It's par for the course with these two teams.

Joe Cooper

It's par for the course in terms of warnings. There have been 301 pre-announcements so far, and 56 percent of those have been negative.

Joe Cooper

It's par for the course in terms of warnings, ... There have been 301 pre-announcements so far, and 56 percent of those have been negative.

Bobby Long

Imagine what we can do if we took this tournament to 1.3 million people as opposed to just Greensboro. There's a huge market for this golf tournament that's just waiting to be tapped into.

George Carlin

So I do have this ambivalence. Obviously I'm against militaries, because of what militaries do. In many ways though, the air force was unmilitary-like. They dropped bombs on people, but...they had a golf course.

Gene Sarazen

My caddie 'Stovepipe' tried to talk me into hitting a 3-wood. But I took out the turf rider (4-wood) instead. The moment I hit it, I felt something in my bones. Walter Hagen was playing with me and Bobby Jones was on the green. 21 people were behind the green. The sun was going down. I wasn't sure it had gone in the hole until I saw all 21 people jumping up and down.

Gene Sarazen

Even when times were good, I realized that my earning power as a golf professional depended on too many ifs and putts.

Gene Sarazen

I have been able to hope for the best, expect the worst, and take what comes along. If there has been one fundamental reason for my success, this is it.

Gary Player

Perhaps the most important thing I can tell you about equipment is to experiment and keep an open mind.

Gary Player

I always said that if they have a golf course like this in heaven, I want to be the head pro.

Gary Player

Golf is a puzzle without an answer.

Gary Player

Everyone wants to be known as a great striker of the ball for some reason. Nobody wants to be called a lucky, one-putting s.o.b.

E. B. White

Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it? In a way, the savoring must come first.

E. B. White

And then, just as Wilbur was settling down for his morning nap, he heard again the thin voice that had addressed him the night before. "Salutations!" said the voice. Wilbur jumped to his feet. "Salu-what?" he cried. "Salutations!" repeated the voice. "What are they, and where are you?" screamed Wilbur. "Please, please, tell me where you are. And what are salutations?" "Salutations are greetings," said the voice. "When I say 'salutations,' it's just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning.

E. B. White

It's hard to know when to respond to the seductiveness of the world and when to respond to its challenge. If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between the desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

E. B. White

From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.

Duke Snider

Man, if I made one million dollars I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the office, manage the team and play the games.

Dustin Hoffman

I came in on this movie after there had been a director and I came in after Tom Courtenay had talked to Ron Harwood about making a movie. So, you know Tom and Albert Finney had been friends since the beginning of their career as they became stars around the same time - Tom always reminds me that Albert was first with Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and then Tom with The Long Distance Runner.

Douglas Horton

Death is the final wake-up call.

Douglas Coupland

You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?

Douglas Coupland

And any small moments of intense, flaring beauty such as this morning's will be utterly forgotten, dissolved by time like a super-8 film left out in the rain, without sound, and quickly replaced by thousands of silently growing trees.

Charles Mason

You work on one set and get it implemented and go on to the next one.

Warren Jeffs

You women will live as if father is still alive and in the next room.

Brent Jennings

(The Devils) want to send out the seniors the right way and get things ready for next year -- and come away with a state title.

Bill Torni

This is one the Cougars should have won. I know next time we play this team they will be much tougher than they were today.

Haley Barbour

This is all stuff we'll be able to pick up and work on next week,

Bob Lay

All I can do is pray we have enough time to get everything finished. If we get through this year with nothing, we'll be in better shape next year.

Emmitt Smith

I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like it like that.

Og Mandino

Always strive to make the next hour better than this one.

Emilie Autumn

I've been completely fascinated with history because it tells everything about what's going to happen next because it's cyclical, everything repeats in general.