Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Bowden

We've got 119 I-A schools. Out of 119 of us, I'll bet you 100 are fighting an attrition battle. You've probably got 19 lucky teams. Boy, they're lucky. They've kept their offensive line healthy all year, they've kept their running backs healthy, and they're probably playing for Southern Cal and Texas.

Alan Faneca

They're trying to create seams, create that little hole, and their backs are trying to read it and hit it. That's their scheme. It goes to personnel and schemes. We counter-block a little more than some teams do. It's a personal preference.

Eric Thurston

They (the players) left it on the table and they turned their backs and when they came back to the table the trophy was gone.

Bob Baldwin

They seem to be coming in waves. When the rain comes, they're up here, and when the rain backs off, I guess they go back.

Ron Massey

They put some people in the box trying to stop our run, but I thought we did a good job staying on blocks. The backs did a good job finding the hole.

Jerome Bettis

They put me on their backs and made sure they wouldn't let me down. I played this game to win a championship. I'm a champion, and I think the last stop is here.

Norm Ornstein

It's not in the backs of their minds about Jim Wright, it's in the front of their minds, ... They see the parallel here and they want to be sure this doesn't happen.

Joel Sawyer

It's no surprise that trial lawyers in the Senate who are lining their own pockets on the backs of South Carolina's businesses would want to delay much-needed reform of a broken workers' compensation system.

Tom Feeney

It's the kind of thing that shows they're turning their backs on the things that Ronald Reagan and those who built this party care deeply about,

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Michelle Duffourc

The mix is very different than what it was before, as it was at least 80 percent tourism and convention business. Now it is one-third tourism, one-third relief and recovery and one-third families coming back and forth.

Yvette Jones

We're happy the judge ruled in our favor but we're dealing with members of our family and alumni, I'm just hoping that in the next coming weeks, months, and years we can rebuild that relationship.

David Mendoza

We needed a good start because (the Patriots) were coming out fired up, ... We wanted to show that we're ready, too.

Bryan Price

We hope to see some real signs of the rotation coming to life in the last month. Or, inevitably, you're going to have to make a decision.

Nigel Gault

Energy prices were rising before Katrina hit, and while those costs didn't make their way through to finished goods in August, we have to expect higher core inflation in coming months. Firms are saying that they've absorbed so much already that they have to pass on these costs.

Peter Costa

Emotionally, there was a sense this week of people wanting to get home and be with their families. In terms of trading there was not a lot going on and the volume was really low. I think you'll start to see some money coming back in when earnings get started ... and when there is some progress with the Middle East.

Alfred Kugel

Earnings are coming in 'in line' with expectations. We should still be up 15 percent year-over-year and that's better than we did in the first half.

Robby Wine

Even today with the rain we had last night, the field's playing 10 times better. We're just jelling. Our team is coming together. The defense will be OK if we keep water on the field and the hops true.

Jack Wilson

I guess you just keep on going out there every day.

Michael Harris

I honestly thought it was over. I didn't think I could come back, to be honest. It turned out to be a sprint to the finish. I guess that's the way I operate.

Bob Williams

I heard this big loud thump. And, I guess that's when the tree hit the house and the lights went off for two hours.

William Rice

I haven't had the rice pudding of my life today. But I guess I lost that opportunity with the end of my childhood.

Edgardo Alfonzo

I have to talk with my wife about it, but I'm 90 percent sure I need to go play, ... If I stay (with the Giants), I guess I have to play harder and work harder to recover that playing time I lost.

Mathieu Garon

I haven't talked to (Murray) yet so I guess I'll find out Wednesday and Thursday,

Steve Mitchell

I kind of feel that this is our season to shine, from the make-up of our team. I guess we'll see how well we can swim.

Justin Arthur

I just went to roll around with him for a little bit. He got his first points. And dislocated my elbow. I guess that was the passing of the torch.

Frank Wood

I'm really not sure. I've put together seven wins in a row six of them by knockout. I guess the right people were watching,

Petter Solberg

When it's been wet and raining and muddy, it has been our rally.

Lil Wayne

Rain on my head; call it brain storming

Peter Kropotkin

Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration - which have been raining down by the hundreds of years annually - as in terms of the manifold personal sacrifices sustained by those who commit themselves to revolutionary agitation.

Peter Kreeft

If you want to get wet, go out to where it is raining; If you want to be a saint, find one and hang out with him.

Pema Chodron

We could learn to stop when the sun goes down and when the sun comes up. We could learn to listen to the wind; we could learn to notice that it's raining or snowing or hailing or calm. We could reconnect with the weather that is ourselves, and we could realize that it's sad. The sadder it is, and the vaster it is, the more our heart opens. We can stop thinking that good practice is when it's smooth and calm, and bad practice is when it's rough and dark. If we can hold it all in our hearts, then we can make a proper cup of tea.

Peter S. Beagle

All lives are composed of two basic elements," the squirrel said, "purpose and poetry. By being ourselves, squirrel and raven, we fulfill the first requirement, you in flight and I in my tree. But there is poetry in the meanest of lives, and if we leave it unsought we leave ourselves unrealized. A life without food, without shelter, without love, a life lived in the rain—this is nothing beside a life without poetry.

Pearl Bailey

I never ask myself how I do what I do. After all, how does it rain?

Rachel Cohn

No--when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it, because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life. (Nick, page 156)

Pippa Middleton

Whatever form it takes, camping is earthy, soul enriching and character building, and there can be few such satisfying moments as having your tent pitched and the smoke rising from your campfire as the golden sun sets on the horizon--even if it's just for a fleeting moment before the rain spoils everything.