Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Kohnen

We like to outlet and run. But you've got to have the ball. Mascoutah has some great athletes and they made it difficult for us to control the boards. We did a better job of blocking out in the third quarter and were able to push the ball.

Denny Green

He'll be one of the best athletes they've got there. He can dunk a ball any way you want to dunk it. Absolutely. He's got exceptional speed, exceptional jumping ability. He'll be a regular gym rat.

Kevin Meyer

He knows we need to get him involved more. He is one of our best athletes and we need to find ways to keep him out on the field.

Scott Touchette

We thought we would have a pretty good chance to win the meet. We have a lot of quality athletes on both the boys and girls teams.

Bonnie Rosen

I thought our effort on Wednesday night was excellent. We played another well executed game in both skill and game plan. The energy level was pretty high, and the team play was strong. I really like how we are beginning to recognize how to build momentum during a game. Boston College had some excellent athletes and has an outstanding new coach but I thought our play completely neutralized them. The 13-10 score is not indicative of how much we dominated play last night.

Charlie Coe

I think we've done pretty well. I feel like we've got a lot of the kinds of players we went after. We've got some good athletes in here.

Dave Stilley

I think we showed what superior athletes we are. We weathered their storm and that's all they had. You could see them fading in the fourth quarter.

Wilson Pickett

I think what they're doing for College for Kids is magnificent. These retired football players, baseball players and all these athletes seem to be getting into this.

Karl Dorrell

I think what's happening is that we have better athletes on the offensive line than we've had before. They can get up and on their guys better, cover up their man better.

Brian Perry

The older they get, the harder they are to find parts for,

Riley Wallace

(Substituting is) our job. They need to play hard and we need to watch them.

S. Walker

Once you hook them up and they start pulling that sled, they just want to go and go and go. The hard part is to reel them in.

Brian Fanelli

Once you get down by 12 or 13 and you get it all the way back to two it's hard to sustain and keep going.

Clarence Curry

Once you get a taste of making it in the NFL you don't want to go back. I just want to play hard and become part of the organization.

Joe Ayoob

I wanted to be the role model, to be the leader of the team. It was kind of hard.

Paul Johnson

So sometimes it's hard to know who's got the ball.

Francis Mathew

Sorry is too simple to say, but we make it to hard because of Pride in Us.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.

David Berry

Sometimes I get lost in the books, if they're good,

Italian Proverb

The stitch is lost unless the thread be knotted

Chris Lynne

Zach had a lead, but we lost that with seven seconds left.

Dean Koontz

I fell in love with her for her sense of humour. If she ever lost her sense of humour, I would have to dump her. Then I'd kill myself because I couldn't live without her.

Daniel Handler

All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found

Elijah Wood

I watched the Lost series in the US and it's great.

Mitch Albom

Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all.

Rob Patek

Right now it doesn't mean a whole lot because we lost (at state). But when I look back on it, it'll be nice. Right now I'm not thinking too much about the records.

Jake Hutton

My senior year, I lost a lot of weight. Maybe that's why. Maybe they thought I was too small or something.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

John Sullivan

You smile with just the mere mention of his name.

Antisthenes

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

Barbara Jordan

Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Baruch Spinoza

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Arthur Miller

A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.

Arthur Miller

I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

Mike Richards

That's when we needed to make a run, right there. That's when we needed to make the plays to get it closer.

Brian Dawkins

Did I do everything I needed to do?

John Wooden

Be at your best when your best is needed.

Bob Zeh

That was typical of our night. Whenever we needed a big shot, we couldn't get one.

Ruth Ozeki

You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed.

Jon Darbyshire

In the past, it was something they needed to address, but they didn't have to.

Jon Mills

I made some putts when I needed to make them,

Matt Hasselbeck

That is no big deal. They were kind of stale anyway. They needed to be changed.

Steve Largent

It's amazing, when I look back on my career, how often he was dead-on in his prediction of what we needed to do to be successful,

Ashton Eaton

I want to see where I measure up against everyone in the world and everyone who has ever competed in the sport, and there's that innate sense of wanting to challenge myself. I'm competitive in all aspects.

Arthur Ashe

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

Jamie Foxx

I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.

Carroll Shelby

In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it.' He said, 'I didn't ask you to make it; you work for me.'

Charles Barkley

There's nobody you'd rather beat than your good friend.

Jason Collins

I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay. I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation. I wish I wasn't the kid in the classroom raising his hand and saying, 'I'm different.' If I had my way, someone else would have already done this. Nobody has, which is why I'm raising my hand.

Conor McGregor

I always think street but train sport.

Boris Becker

So this is it. Match point for eternity.

Bobby Knight

Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.

Brian Bosworth

When you're 20, we all make stupid and impulsive decisions.

Jane Austen

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

Douglas Adams

So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly?' I asked. He looked at me as if I were stupid. 'You die, of course. That's what deadly means.

Cory Doctorow

The opposite of esprit d'escalier is the way that life's embarrassments come back to haunt us even after they're long past. I could remember every stupid thing I'd ever said or done, recall them with picture-perfect clarity. Any time I was feeling low, I'd naturally start to remember other times I felt that way, a hit parade of humiliations coming one after another to my mind.

Cory Doctorow

It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.

Clive James

Men never sound more stupid than when they're telling you they're a very complex personality.

Clint Eastwood

I found out that a lot of my liberal friends weren't liberal because they weren't liberal about approaching anybody else's ideas, or at least standing for it. They started getting really animalistic about, "I can't even associate with this guy. He's stupid. He's an idiot."

Darcy Tucker

I know it sounds stupid, but we're just playing. We're playing hard, but we're just playing.

Darcy Tucker

I'm on the third line. I'm a crasher. I know my role. I'm just trying to help. I'm not stupid enough to think I'm great out there.

Robert Foster Bennett

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

Rene Descartes

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

Thomas Paine

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

Thomas Sowell

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

Richard Stallman

The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful language is. Once you learn Lisp you will see what is missing in most other languages.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights.

John Wesley

I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar need feel a certain respect for those who confide in him.

Michael Tilson Thomas

The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me.