Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lou Brock

I believe we need to make some radical moves to get the attention of everyone.

Jim Calhoun

Certainly Hilton will come in with a lot more attention than he had before. A full 40 minutes of focus is what we?re going to need.

Thora Thibaut

Basically, I teach people how to train their dogs. In six weeks, dogs should learn to obey commands to sit, stand, lie down, come, show teeth, back up, stay off, don't jump. Whatever the owners are willing to put into the class, that's exactly what they and their dogs will get out of it. Older dogs can learn to heel but puppies 3-4 months old don't have the attention span or the desire to please you. When they're older, they can take a little more pressure to learn.

Kevin Callahan

Basically, every team has contacted us wanting information on Miles. Some teams, like Miami and Denver, have been very interested. This is the first time we've had this much attention on one of our players.

John Knight

Because we are a small business, we know the value of personal attention specialized to meet unique communication needs. We know you don't get that kind of attention or service from larger telephone companies.

Julien Pain

No one has paid attention to it. But now people are realizing that freedom of expression throughout the world is at stake.

Mark Twain

My experience with Providence has not been of a nature to give me great confidence in his judgment, and I consider that my wife crept in while his attention was occupied elsewhere

Joe Moreno

My Dad was not a man who looked for a lot of attention or hoopla, but the family is so pleased that he is being honored. He was one of the most respected coaches in the community, and had the biggest heart in the world.

Mike Rogers

More than anything we are paying attention now. Our intelligence gathering is better focused and funded.

Pat Noonan

I'm trying not to think about it, because we've got a big game in New York. Going into their home opener and trying to get three more points on the road is our main focus right now. I just have to worry about staying healthy for that game. Once that game is over, then I can concentrate on that Jamaica game.

Paul Patton

I must now focus on rebuilding my private life.

LaVar Arrington

I looked forward to the focus on me being turned back on football.

Alyssa Lampe

I just focus on winning and not about gender too much.

Mike Lorello

I'm kind of glad. As players, you want to focus on one thing. That's playing the game.

Brian Cashman

I have no information on it. I will focus on that tomorrow.

Ned Hill

In Detroit, there is a focus on how things used to be. In Indianapolis, there's probably an optimism about what the world will be.

Stewart Cink

I'm not a numbers guy. I'm just going to go out and grind my rear end off on every shot. If you focus on a number you think you have to shoot, that just puts more pressure on you and there's already enough pressure in a major championship.

Peter Laviolette

I mean, it's a great accomplishment any time you win your division. I think the focus for us is to keep winning games and playing well. Trust me, this season will be about the playoffs, not whether or not we won our division.

Bobby Robson

The first 90 minutes of the match are the most important.

Morris Chestnut

My idea of a perfect holiday is spending time with the family, waking up on Christmas morning or Thanksgiving morning, watching football all day, having the family come over, people you haven't seen.

Michael Beasley

We had a lot of football players on the team then. Once we got out of football mode we started making strides.

Justin Timberlake

I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don't do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being interested in music.

Gordon Ramsay

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It's not a job, it's a passion. When you become good at it, it's a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

Tommy Felty

They're a good football team with a quarterback who throws the ball well, a strong fullback and two good tailbacks. I think they're still in the process of trying to find the right chemistry, and we hope it lasts one more week.

Jimmy Henson

Wow, what a football game. Our kids stepped it up big time and made the big plays. They fought tooth and nail until the last kick.

Craig Bellamy

Everyone in football knows what John Terry's like off the field

David Letterman

Congratulations to Ohio State, your new college football champions. Coach Urban Meyer may be the greatest football coach of all time. Don't confuse him with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio. That's urban quagmire.

A. E. Housman

The goal stands up, the keeper / Stands up to keep the goal.

Mark Blondin

The goal of your union is that you do not take a step back in your standard of living when you go into your retirement years.

Brad Shaw

The goal at the end of the second period really hurt us. Good teams get things done at key times in the game.

Sean Kelly

Even with their second goal I knew we could do it, ... We've been there before and Kerry hadn't. That was important.

Donnie Henderson

It'll always be a goal until I get it. It's always an honor to hear your name.

Ken Blanchard

Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.

Margaret Thatcher

No great goal was ever easily achieved.

Julianne Hough

I figured out if I have a good goal in mind, then I can actually achieve it.

Paul Klee

In my productive activity, every time a type grows beyond the stage of its genesis, and I have about reached the goal, the intensity gets lost very quickly, and I have to look for new ways.

Ayn Rand

Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it.

Tom Hardy

Every time you need protein, get yourself a boiled egg in. But your main meals would be chicken, or hummus, or white fish. You can lose about a pound a day. But you can do this stuff over a period of time, and you can have your happy days. It's about motivation and it has to be something that's realistic for you to keep up.

John Wooden

The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.

Joe DiMaggio

You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'

Joe DiMaggio

Motivation is something nobody else can give you. Others can help motivate you, but basically it must come from you and it must be a constant desire to do your very best at all times and under any circumstances.

Josh Fox

I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.

Paul Bloom

If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else thinks that they do.

Mike Ditka

People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time.

Kim Clijsters

These were the moments when I was disappointed and frustrated, when I got so low because it seemed all my hard work had been wasted. But the moments passed, and the motivation to go back to rehab was there again.

Buddy Guy

I said, I'm going to stand up and somebody is going to pay attention to me.

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.