Famous Quotes & Sayings

Branch Rickey

Problems are the price you pay for progress.

Edmund Burke

Public calamity is a mighty leveller.

Nick Saban

We certainly created some adversity for ourselves to overcome out there, ... but I was really pleased with how we responded time in and time out. Nobody's ever happy with penalties. Nobody's ever happy with turnovers. But I think it's most important to establish how you respond to that stuff when it happens in the game.

Francis Ford Coppola

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Francis Bacon

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

Francis Bacon

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity

Phil Smith

One of the things we've been after the guys about is the killer instinct and not letting adversity get them down.

Jeremy Bloom

My whole mentality was similar to the Tiger Woods approach. I had a lot of opportunities to jump in training and competition. I focused only on improving these skills. Adversity and racing gave me confidence to get through it.

Gail Evans

The more credit you give, the better it reflects on you.

Cate Williams

A credit score is a snapshot of an exact moment.

Jim Rogers

The whole world works on credit and the state Legislature can't, ... We need to get in the credit business.

Curt Shaw

Dillon, Jared and Tom deserve a lot of credit.

Martha Coakley

Women always did all the work anyway, so we might as well get credit for it,

Jeff Sessions

I feel strongly that the military deserves a lot of credit here.

Maurice Cheeks

Kyle?s in better shape than a lot of these guys here and that?s what I pointed out to them. A guy who doesn?t have to be here and is here, and in better shape than some of the other players, is a credit to him. I think some of those guys have to look at him and see a player who?s here who doesn?t have to be here and in the shape that he?s in now.

John Hammond

Someone deserves some credit. I know Carlos gives a lot of it to his dad.

Katie Douglas

That's what Indiana is know for. Just clawing. Just being relentless. ... You have to give them credit for not giving up in the second half.

Scott Gernander

Even though we haven't seen a lot of it, I was a little disappointed at how we handled their press.

Donald Copeland

It is disappointing, but the way he's handled it shows what type of man he is. He's never made any of this about himself. For him, it's all about the team.

Willie Randolph

I don't look at just where he's playing, it's how he handled himself. He has a lot of poise for a young player, and I like that.

Jonathan Diamond

It is not something handled by this office.

Cheryl Stewart

I need to have a strong faith, because no one else could handle this.

P. J. Harvey

If you can handle the time, it's great. But it's tough on the families. You have one or two kids, you are travelling around all summer. It takes a lot of time.

Nick Hardwick

I know I've seen what the league has to offer for the most part, and I know I can handle it.

Jon Kitna

In this league, you've got to have strong leadership; you've got to be able to handle the ups and downs, ... Nobody had been through the ups here. We didn't have that structure set up to back the leadership that was in place. The inmates were running the asylum.

Mark Schmidt

In this league, you have to handle runs. You've got to find a way to win.

Tom Stern

It was tough for every wrestler to get through (to state). There are a lot of kids that aren't going who could be.

Brian Idalski

This is special because it's my alma mater and being to be a part and have that success here. We didn't get here because I'm a genius. This is a players' accomplishment and a testament to the kids we've had play here.

Bow Wow

My fans saw 'Roll Bounce,' but also that older crowd who might not have been familiar with me on the music tip saw 'Roll Bounce' and loved it. 'Roll Bounce' opened up that door for me to have older people love Bow Wow and opened up that door so all of the kids would love Bow Wow. My fan base is really diverse; it's all ages and all colors.

Jason Dominick

This win is a real tribute to our kids. We lost a lot from last season's team and these kids really put in the time during the summer in order to get back to this point.

Brad Goreski

I was a little chubby, rosy-cheeked kid.

Butch Cassidy

Kid, the next time I say let's go someplace like Bolivia. Let's go someplace like Bolivia.

Busy Philipps

I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid, and was always doing bits for my friends and family.

Joan Bonvicini

We did everything we possibly could with what we had. These kids aren't used to losing, particularly like this.

Jamie Oliver

Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.

Michael W. Smith

Is it going to win an Oscar? Probably not.

Brian Blessed

Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

Carroll Shelby

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races

Jamie Redknapp

You want to win things and I am at a club where we have the players to do that.

Baltasar Gracian

Leave your luck while still winning.

Boris Becker

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.

Bill Hybels

Everyone wins when a leader gets better

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Edward Abbey

The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.