Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mardy Collins

We want to try and embarrass them and beat them by 30. They gave us a pretty good butt kicking. I give them credit, they played well, but we came out with no energy, came out flat, and let them do whatever they wanted to do.

Don Maestri

We accomplished a lot this year. We won 14 games, which I think is overachieving. We beat (ULL) twice and Western Kentucky, which was a big win for our program.

Ruth Shields

We always have a nice little rivalry with them so it's a nice way to start the season, beating a county rival,

Jay Graham

We always had a (player) within an arm's length of (Kirstein). We respect his game. We wanted to make sure that he didn't beat us.

Jose Gonzalez

We always had a guitar at home, but it wasn't until I was 14 when I picked it up myself when my father handed me these sheets of music of the Beatles and some other classics. That's where I learned all the chords and learned how to play and sing at the same time.

Eric Devendorf

We always feel like we can beat (anybody). We have the talent. It's just the chemistry. We need to play together and play well on defense and then the offense is gonna come.

Louis Navellier

I've been investing in the stock market for 27 years and, within that time, have helped investors beat the market nearly four to one.

Micky Ward

I never lost a fight because I wasn't in shape or because I wasn't ready. I lost because I was either beaten by a man better than me, or it wasn't my night.

Scott Found

The only difference between the Commonwealth and Cedar Run is that for the past seven years, Albemarle has gone to states and no one has beaten them. In the Cedar Run, I think everyone is more evenly matched. There is no team that everyone is going to lose to. It is so competitive because everyone is fighting for a spot.

Brittany Woolley

We struggled at the beginning and I think we just ran out of time at the end.

Kevin Wallace

We still need to come out with intensity at the beginning of games. We need to carry the second half of games into the first half of the next game.

Porter Erisman

We're in a phase where Chinese companies are beginning to think with a longer-term perspective. People are starting to see that operating in a good, ethical and well-mannered way helps you survive in the long term.

Doug Michaels

We're in a period with some of the most disruptive technologies I've ever seen, and the Internet is the most disruptive. The beginning of the new millennium is not the end of this period of change, it could even be the beginning of change going into hyper-drive.

Shawn Baumgartner

We started out the game down 8-2. We were up by 20 at the beginning of the fourth.

Steve Bietau

We started off playing well in the doubles and won there, but at the beginning of singles, things went in the opposite direction.

Brett Sommerville

We started focusing on defense, and really working hard in practice. It was a change from the beginning of the season when we were a little lackadaisical.

Pete Costanza

When you take over in the middle (of the season), you don't know what kind of groundwork was set. We were able to set the groundwork from the beginning (this season) on what we expect of the guys, how we're going to do things, what type of players we want. This definitely is the direction we want to go and feel good about.

Harry Morgan

If I had had to struggle at the beginning like most actors... I'd never have stuck it out. But having such complete success at the beginning, I was stuck with being an actor for life.

Alan Bennett

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

Al Ries

It's better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.

Akio Morita

An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

Akio Morita

The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.

Akio Morita

The public does not know what is possible. We do.

George Foster

We want the players to have a framework to evaluate business opportunities put in front of them. The sporting theme (inspires) much more passion for a lot of people, but a lot of sporting ideas go bankrupt, so passion is not enough. You've got to have revenues come through the door and you've got to contain your cost.

Richard Williams

We want them to have a real-world experience, which means working with people from other schools and cultures, which gives them an experience of diversity. Some students never would have considered a career in international business and exportation without this kind of exposure.

Mike Clasper

We want to streamline the management and admin staff of the business and get our managers closer to the business to deliver that better leadership and get the right people in the right jobs.

Ido Hartuv

We want to see who in the group supports his (Robertson's) statements. Those who support the statements cannot do business with us. Those that publicly support Ariel Sharon's recovery ... are welcome to do business with us.

Jenn Davis

We want to take this as far as we can. We hope to play three more games. Right now, our goal is to win (Saturday) and get to the state tournament.

Mark Adler

We always hope. So far we've been OK.

Louise Jameson

I only have three scenes and each is a turn and she gets progressively drunker. It's all terribly funny and its main challenge is that it's so far away from what I usually do.

Dave Rose

We are a far better team when we get out and score in transition.

Flip Saunders

We are at the tip of the iceberg as far as where we are and where we could be.

Flip Saunders

We still only had 10 turnovers for the game. They were magnified as far as when they happened a little bit. When you're playing well, they try to throw everything at you. From that standpoint, as I say, the more things that are thrown at you, the better prepared you are come playoff time.

Jimmy Garris

We're in favor of (the recommendation); it just doesn't go far enough.

Lodrick Stewart

We're in (a tie for seventh) place, but that's not that far out of a really good spot this year.

Dave Haywood

We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Tim Short

We've won playoff games before, but not down 18 on someone else's home court. Yeah, this is pretty special.

Mike Pomerenke

We've won more games this year than we'd won all of last year already. And you know, that's a huge improvement.

Chris Bosh

You don't have to appreciate me - I hope you underestimate me. That way, when I have a good game, it'll hit you even harder.

Chris Bosh

I've modeled my game after Kevin Garnett and Tim Duncan.

Chris Bosh

I know how the game is played, and I'm always working on it.

Eddie Kaye Thomas

If I have the TV on, it's either a Mets game or 'SportsCenter.'

Arne Jacobsen

Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.

Denzel Washington

Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.

Denis Waitley

A winner concentrates on that which is goal achieving rather than tension relieving.

Denis Waitley

The reason so many individuals fail to achieve their goals in life is that they never really set them in the first place

Denis Waitley

Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves.

Denis Waitley

Achievers can almost literally taste success because they imagine their goals in such vivid detail. Setbacks only seem to add spice and favor to the final taste of victory.

Denis Waitley

Be willing to wait longer for you goals to bear fruit than you had anticipated.

Denis Waitley

Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others.

Deena Kastor

A goal is just an awesome way to force growth on yourself.

Zell Miller

What has happened to the party I've spent my life working in?

Robert Gottlieb

Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.

Frank Beamer

We'll see what took place and I'll talk with everyone about what happened before I make any more statements.

Diana Henderson

We are getting real weather. That has not happened for a while.

Nancy Donovan

Unfortunately, I think what's happened is, there's been so much underground work done to prepare the surface that you don't see a lot of that from the roadway.

Bill Tierney

We knew what happened last year. We lost to this team 17-4. We knew how they could score, and we knew we had to not let that happen to have a chance.

Robert Lanza

It's just a real shame that this has happened to him.

Hans Eichel

It's a shame it happened like this, but we have to respect it.

Hal Brown

A lot of them you don't get to know because it happened so long ago, ... We're so lucky to be able to honor (the past presidents), to meet them. Because of their leadership is why we're here today.

Lorraine Bracco

You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't get me wrong: It's nice to get a paycheck. But if you don't really do anything it's not very satisfying.

Mike Heffernan

We're in significantly better shape than we were last year,

Gene Stephenson

We're in last place now in the league. Twenty-nine years we've never been in this situation in this league at 2-6, I know that. Right now, we're just not very good.

Bill Trumbo

We're in a much-improved spot from a year ago. At this point last season, we were 0-4.

William Shakespeare

This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable.

Shawan Robinson

When you think of those overtime games, some of the others that were ours to win going into the last minute or so, I know ? we all know ? it would a be a different season if we had him.

C. S. Lewis

Here at last is the thing I was made for.

C. S. Lewis

Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things.

Jimmy Johnson

We have to find some speed and turn things around. Thankfully, we had a strong start to the season, so this last month we really didn't have to race our way in. But we've got to find it in a hurry.

Alan Jay Lerner

I could have danced all night!

Alan Clark

The only solution is to kill 600 people in one night. Let the UN and Bill Clinton and everyone else make a scene - and it is over for 20 years.

Al Jourgensen

I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena.

Al Hirschfeld

The opening-night audience is mostly friends of the cast and backers of the show, and they cometo applaud their money.

Chris Abani

Elvis, stop dat! You know it is taboo to whistle at night. You will attract a spirit.

Chick Corea

I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.

Edward Hoagland

Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling.

Edith Stein

And when night comes, and you look back over the day and see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you planned that has gone undone, and all the reasons you have to be embarrassed and ashamed: just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him.

Eddie Huang

Soup dumplings, sitcoms, one-night stands--good ones leave you wanting more.

Leonard Edelstein

We were supposed to be ready to go in 48 hours, but it took a little longer.

Eric Munson

We'll see what happens. I'm just going to try to be ready when my name's in the lineup, and we'll see what happens.

Steven Gerrard

We are all ready for the second leg,

Charlie Sheen

I'm here and I'm ready. They're not. Bring it.

Jim Epperly

We're going to have to be ready to go.

David Brown

We're doing great. We're ready, we've got 100-percent deployment ready to go at about 9 a.m. tomorrow morning.

Joe Torre

We're fine. We're ready to go. Everybody's had enough work.

Jeff Mathews

We're ready to make our point. We're ready to get it on and get it done.

Joe Torre

We're ready to go. We're as ready as we're going to be.

George White

When you start to know what you're doing and why you're doing it, it makes it better.

Morris Peterson

When we were off to our 1-15 start I think that's when they did the poll.

Becky Hammon

We're starting to come together a little more. We're starting to put it together.

Keith Guttin

When we get that done, we'll start turning it up as a team.

Bryan Ferry

It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.

Lawrence Frank

We're starting to see what we need to do to win.

Terrie Archer

We're starting to get some of the registrations in.

Kim Smith

We're starting to get on a roll. Things are going well for us.

Gary LaGrange

We're starting to get back to work today.

Alan Pardew

I don't like people who drain my time and energy. If you've seen the Harry Potter films, we use the term 'dementors' - people who can draw the life out of you in terms of your energy. So we eradicate the 'dementors', encourage the positive people, and that spreads around to create the team spirit we have here

Alan Hansen

I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.

Alan Hansen

The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.

Alain Prost

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.

Alain Prost

It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.

Alain Prost

When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.

Alain Prost

You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise.

Al Michaels

There are a number of teams that would become vastly improved with Drew Bledsoe.

Al Michaels

The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling.

Corey Brewer

We're in the tournament to win it all.

Pat Summitt

A lot of this tournament is about where you play and not who you play.

Inaki Saez

You don't give anything away in a tournament like this,

Michael Collins

This is the one tournament where I tell folks, this is not a sport.

Brittany Wilkins

At least we got our tournament jitters out.

Jim Taylor

It was an outstanding tournament and Clarkston is really tough,

Ronnie Brewer

The SEC Tournament is important for our fans.

Yani Tseng

The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.

Kipp Schreiner

That's Melissa (Martin). She's won just about every tournament we've been in this season.

Chogyam Trungpa

If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time.

Nate Turner

For me, it's one win. We've still got unfinished business.

Brandon Sanderson

Raoden looked up at his friend. "We're not dead, Galladon, and we're not damned. We're just unfinished.

James Whistler

Frederic Leighton to James McNeill Whistler: 'My dear Whistler, you leave your pictures in such a sketchy, unfinished state. Why don't you ever finish them?' James McNeill Whistler to Frederic Leighton: 'My dear Leighton, why do you ever begin yours?

Russell M. Nelson

When priorities are in place, one can more patiently tolerate unfinished business.

Phil Jackson

That was all well and fine, but there was still some unfinished business, I felt, with the Lakers,

Havelock Ellis

Liberty is always unfinished business

Marian Wright Edelman

Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Never show unfinished work.