Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Gottfried

As a graduate assistant just starting, I get the opportunity to know John Wooden. I mean, are you kidding me? How great an opportunity that was.

Buster Keaton

It was an event when you could get all three of them on the set at the same time. The minute you started a picture with the Marx brothers you hired three assistant directors. One for each Marx brother. You had two of 'em while you went to look for the third one and the first two would disappear.

Allen Iverson

I've been seeing a different side basically all year long. His demeanor is totally different from being an assistant coach and the Maurice Cheeks that I got to know throughout the years of him being here. I expect it because he has a different role now.

Joe Theismann

There are excellent football coaches out there, and excellent assistants that could do a good job. But it's going to take time. With Tice, you have an excellent football coach. I think he should be given a chance to come back and coach that football team.

Therese Fowler

As with many teens, my first jobs included babysitting and mopping floors at McDonald's. Since then, I've held jobs a diverse as selling used cars, selling apparel, cosmetics, and real-estate, substitute-teaching six graders, teaching undergraduate creative writing, and working as an editorial assistant for a literary magazine.

Tom Gill

At my time at Hylton when I was assistant principal, I could see his intensity and the kids were well coached and well behaved and that caught my eyes then.

Sathya Baba

You may be very wealthy and have servants and assistants to help in a few tasks, but your own work you must do yourself.

Anne Robinson

I was thrilled when a designer shop assistant said I was a size smaller than Madonna!

Martin Luther

We are but the instruments or assistants, by whom God works.

Rob Sumner

Our defenseman couldn't get there because he was getting blocked. There was a scoring chance created off of it and they scored.

Al Wolski

The monkey is kinda off our back. The first win is always the most important. To be so close to it so many games prior, it gnawed at their insides and finally they got a chance to win. It's great for them.

Walt Jocketty

After a discussion I had with his agent, I think it would be probably less than a 50 percent chance that would happen.

Bruce Aylward

Now it's simply (about) getting the financial resources to get this thing finished. You'll never get another chance like this.

Brandon Warren

Tennessee let me know when they have a good tight end, they know how to use them. I'm really looking forward to my visit because it will give me a chance to hear how they intend to use me and take a look at the new system they are putting in place.

Gary Scelzi

Running late tonight gave us a chance to run in perfect conditions, ... I know we won't have conditions like this tomorrow but we did learn that this racetrack can hold a lot more than we've been giving it.

Jeff Banks

Right now, Tyler is doing good in a lot of facets as far as pass protection. Matt's showing a different type of quickness to the hole since last year even. He's really running at a high level. And Marcus has shown some maturity. He knows everything he's doing, he's making the right reads. He's going to the right keys in pass protection. So that gives me a chance for our offense to be able to depend on him.

Richie Zisk

Realistically, when you have a chance at the end of the season to be playing for a championship -- if you get into the championship round, that's tremendous. But just to be in it at the end is what you really want to strive for. It's a lot easier to teach when you're in a competitive situation.

Bill Cowher

The run he made the other night was a classic example of being patient. It was an inside run that he ran inside. But when he has a chance to get outside, he knows what he has.

Eli Juarez

A new coach, a new system and a young 6-foot-and-under team. I'm extremely proud of what we accomplished this season. We lose only two seniors and we're still learning. We can look forward to a good season next year.

Henry Uhegwu

That was a big win for us. We prepared for them in two days, but the coaches gave us a really good game plan and we stepped to it. This is our season, we're trying to turn things around.

Jeremy Mayfield

Coach Sampson was a major, major, major part of me signing.

Mike Bibby

Coach said it was the first time in 20 years he had seen that.

Hosea Berkley

Coach (Paul) Hatcher said the streak had to end sometime. I just wish it wasn't tonight. But everything happens for a reason, just like we won 85 games in a row for a reason.

David Ryan

Coach McCaffery was great to us this year. It was a great year, and right now he's our coach.

Chris Beard

Coach Knight has always had great respect for the Delaware job and thinks it would be a great situation for someone.

Taurean Green

Coach kind of got upset that we didn't listen to him. We can't let half our shots be threes in the first half.

Gary Foster

Coach (Ken) O'Donnell always tells us stories of the old teams. It's inspiration for us that we can be the stories for the next kids coming up. We want to win the game so we can show those guys that we're still here. The game is dedicated to them.

Roger Clemens

So they gave me some medication and I'm going to treat it and that's all I can tell you from there.

Jose Vivas

The way I see it, God gave us life for some reason and took away life from others for some other reason. It's a mystery. Only God knows why.

Laura Wade

I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.

Daryl Patton

We're a pressure team. We're going to give up some big plays at time but overall ... we gave up some big plays but the kids responded usually with something positive right after that.

Robert Atkins

When I meet vegetarians who might have diabetes, pre-diabetes or massive obesity, I tell them they would be better off if they gave up their Vegetarianism.

Flip Saunders

The only negative was I wanted to play Carlos (Delfino) and I didn't. I think he could have probably helped us. We went with Mo, and Mo gave us energy.

Caitlyn Jenner

'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

Ethel Andrus

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost;/ but what I gave away will be mine forever.

Dana Trumm

We gave some of the junior varsity players an opportunity to play varsity today. We did real well. The whole idea was to give them some experience.

Jason Witten

Seeing some of these guys is pretty special. They've done a lot for us, the young players.

Gilles Muller

I see these guys in a different way,

Albert Pujols

This is something I can do for my country. Definitely, I want to participate in this. It's big for me and I'm pretty sure that's the same way a lot of guys look at it.

Chris Ault

That Virden keeps showing up. He has done a very nice job. He might be the most improved secondary guy we have got.

Brandon Sanderson

What wasdat, sir? What wazzat sir? What wassat, sir?” “Wayne, what are you babbling about?” Waxillium asked. “Practicing my pretzel guy,” Wayne said. “He had a great accent...” Waxillium glanced at him. "That hat looks ridiculous.” “Fortunately, I can change hats,” Wayne said in the pretzel-guy accent, “while you, sir, are stuck with that face.

Junior Seau

I've tried to bring the mentality of the outside linebacker to the inside and the rough, tough style of an inside linebacker to the outside. The middle linebacker always has been known as kind of a big plugger. Outside guys are known to be able to run. I just try to make big plays wherever I am.

Al Franken

One thing I've noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.

Charles Barkley

If Michael Jordan was a damn plumber, he couldn't get a date. Any guy got $500 million looks good.

Jason Bateman

Guys like Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Sacha Baron Cohen, they do things you love to watch. I like to do the other half.

Stacy Kim

Probably the toughest part is knowing that I have to play well. That's the one skill that I am still working on.

Arthur Mitchell

Walk into a room, knowing you are somebody, somebody special. Don't ever let them smash that or pull you down.

Brian Johnson

My willingness to explore and work freely is not without risk, and at times, I find myself caught in a bind... Knowing I can fix whatever goes wrong allows me to paint, not without thought, but without hesitation.

Bryant H. McGill

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

Charles Babbage

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.

Diane Ackerman

The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.

Booker T. Washington

Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.

Booker T. Washington

Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.

Bobby Knight

Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Shane Olivea

This is probably the worst performance we've all played, together, in the last two years.

Brooks Bollinger

This is so tough, ... People on the outside don't realize how tough it is to get to the playoffs. Last year, we were one victory away from a championship game.

Brian Tracy

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Jane Jacobs

A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.

Channing Tatum

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

Janet Jackson

I truly felt that was going to be my last tour. So here we are again and I'm saying this will probably be my last tour. That's truly the way I'm looking at it.

Cardinal Richelieu

I do not sleep to let others sleep in the shade of my waking.

Arianna Huffington

I have one piece of advice for you: sleep your way to the top.

Diane Cilento

I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don't, I don't think you've ever really lived.

Billy Bragg

A nation with their freezers full are dancing in their seats, while outside another nation is sleeping in the streets.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I can't sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.

Bill James

A chart of numbers that would put an actuary to sleep can be made to dance if you put it on one side of a card and Bombo Rivera's picture on the other.

Bill Hicks

Nonsmokers--this is for you and you only. Ready? Nonsmokers die every day. Sleep tight.

Brother Lawrence

Were I a preacher, I should preach above all other things, the practice of the Presence of God.... Those who have the gale of the Holy Spirit go forward, even in sleep.

Bruce Campbell

People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with.

Terry Francona

Once you give up five, ... if they peck away and get one here and get one there, it makes it tougher to win.

Carole James

It was the toughest work I'd ever done.

Ashton Irwin

If things are going bad and life is tough, hang in there. Ride it out. Come out on top.

Steve Barrow

We think it is unlikely, but it's a tough call.

Jason Smith

We just need to keep doing everything we're already doing. Play tough with hard-nosed defense.

Sugar Ray Leonard

The Ricky Hatton that beat Kostya Tszyu in 2005 can beat Floyd Mayweather, he was so focused and in such amazing physical shape that he would have given anybody at that level a tough time.

V. S. Naipaul

I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.

Hillary Clinton

Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times, but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top,

Jack Rio

He said he'd be back. That's a tough man.