Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Campbell

I've beaten him -- that gives me an extra edge.

Roger Federer

This is how it will be in every match at the Open. I'm ready for the pressure, ... It's a good feeling that I have. The players, I know them all, I've beaten them all.

Josh Miley

That's just extra motivation for me. I want to prove the coaches wrong. I've beaten a couple kids who were ranked in the Brakeman, but I like the underdog role anyway. There is less pressure this way.

Alton Merkerson

As strange as it sounds, Roy wasn't motivated for those two fights. Roy is either self-motivated or he's not motivated at all. For those fights, he was bored. He was tired of pleasing other people. The second Tarver fight; he figured he'd beaten Tarver the first time when he was weak and had trouble making weight so now it would be easy. I didn't get what I should have gotten out of him in camp. And with Glen Johnson, it was the same thing. You can't make a fighter train if he doesn't want to. He might come to the gym but he won't work right while he's there.

Ben Braun

We felt if we had beaten UCLA, we would have won this thing (the regular-season title). So it's probably fitting that we're playing. I just hope we get our legs back.

Howard Davidowitz

Sears is an American institution that's getting beaten up, ... The company is trying everything it can to stay in business but it's still losing market share everywhere.

Katie Smith

Obviously, these guys have beaten them before at their place. I wasn?t with them at the time, but we know it?s doable. I think it?s going to be another knock-down, drag-out (game), but I think we have the confidence and the tools to get it done.

Retief Goosen

Obviously it was a great round, I don't think it will be beaten for awhile,

John Calipari

Obviously, Houston gave us a game. (The Cougars) could have, should have beaten us they played so well.

John Wells

A show like 'True Detective' is definitely a drama.

Jimmy Rollins

This is definitely what you play for. Everybody knows it's football season, but when you have a race like this, it's hard to turn around from it.

Jim Smith

This is definitely what we anticipated all along. It just took a little longer than we expected. We're elated that the commissioners saw the wisdom of the entire plan and voted accordingly.

Jeff Gordon

This is definitely the smoothest that I've ever seen this place. I'm still not sure what the race is going to be like, but I think it's going to be good because the track is just really, really fast right now.

Daniel Wilson

This is definitely the right time to get started.

E. O. Wilson

This is definitely the most talented, smartest and mature team I've been on since I've been here.

Daron Rahlves

This is hard to swallow. It's not the way I wanted it to end. If you win a gold medal at the Olympics it doesn't matter what else you've done. I definitely wanted to walk away from here on top.

Chris Young

This is really a loose bunch. They keep saying to me, 'Coach, we've got to be your favorite team of all time.' I told them 'I don't know. You might be the dumbest.' They definitely have the most fun.

Tony Stewart

This is one of those days, I don't want it to end, ... I don't want to see the sun set. It's definitely the greatest day of my life, professionally and personally up to this point.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Curtis Armstrong

I've been going to this high school for 7 and 1/2 years, I'm no dummy.

Don Bowers

The worse the hurricane does to us, the higher the prices are going to go.

Lysle Brinker

This is a tax story. What we don't know is how long the higher tax rate will be sustained going forward.

Rich Olson

That took the wind out of our sails. It just made the hill a lot higher to climb.

Jack Schrader

From top to bottom, I just don't see how there could be a better league in the nation.

Brian Kilrea

He's their Danny. I think he's been a top goaltender in this league for years,

Nate Robinson

He played like he has been in the league for 10 years.

Lastings Milledge

I want to get to the big leagues as quick as I can. But I want to stay there. I could be ready now or I couldn't be.

P. G. Wodehouse

Half a league Half a league Half a league onward With a hey-nonny-nonny And a hot cha-cha.

Mike Powell

I love gaming, I'm actually more of a nerd than a metal head and if you see me at shows chances are I'm by our merch table playing league of legends on my laptop or playing super Nintendo or Playstation through an emulator. My Nintendo pretty much raised me.

Paul Jewell

Our only objective at the start of the season was to stay in this league and we should do that. If we don't it'll be the Devon Loch of all Devon Lochs.

Tony Dungy

Smallest packet of scheduled stuff I remember getting at a league meeting.

Ted Lyons

I lost the good stuff on my fastball. I had to come up with something to keep me in the league. The knuckler rescued me then.

Bob White

It was very frustrating. The talent doesn't match the attitude.

Annika Sorenstam

That's just match play, ... That's what makes it so exciting.

Natalie Grinham

At the moment, because it is the pool matches it is quite a long day ... we don't just wake up and play one match during the day, we play three.

Rick Woodard

We missed the playoffs. Ideally, each match is a stepping stone to the next one.

Retief Goosen

I wouldn't say we feel like we're the underdogs. Obviously on paper we look like we are probably not as strong a team. But in match play, it always can turn around so many times, like we've seen in the Ryder Cup.

Michele Compton

If they don't find a match soon, all three could die. It is just that urgent.

Sam Sides

She's always aggressive. Sometimes she tries to do too much, but she'll give you 100 percent. She's tough to match up with because she's so aggressive.

Elena Dementieva

She had a match point, but I never give up, ... You just go for it.

William Shakespeare

Shall we play the wantons with our woes,And make some pretty match with shedding tears?

Alice Cooper

There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.

Mahela Jayawardene

We know it is a period that we have to rebuild.

David Cutcliffe

That's probably the one position that has stayed the same the most over that period of time.

David Greenberg

They can be done in a short period of time,

Javier Solana

We would like very much to support President Abbas at this period of time. This is what we are going to do today.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Damon Lindelof

I always remember liking school.

Billy Childish

I did not like prizes at school. I didn't like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The reason I hated them is that I don't like being tested, failed or falsely praised by anyone.

Bobby Fischer

She and I just don't see eye to eye together. She's a square. She keeps telling me that I'm too interested in chess, that I should get friends outside of chess, you can't make a living from chess, that I should finish high school and all that nonsense. She keeps in my hair and I don't like people in my hair, you know, so I had to get rid of her.

Brie Larson

For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school. For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.

Brendon Urie

I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.

Ludwig von Mises

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

Charles Spurgeon

We must school and train ourselves to deal personally with the unconverted. We must not excuse ourselves, but force ourselves to the irksome task until it becomes easy.

Ryan Longwell

We had no shot of making that one. It was just out of sequence.

Edgar Bronfman

between very long shots and very, very, very long shots.

Dwight Johnson

We'll have another shot at it, I think.

Susan Estrich

I don't like cheap shots, I really don't.

Spike Jonze

I'm always inspired by other filmmakers, whether it's a shot or the way they handle tone.

D. James

He's very tough. He does so much out there and he can get up a shot at any time.

Helen Darling

He said we need to get more shots up. We're getting used to it.

Bethenny Frankel

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.

Justin Gray

I take tough shots all season. I do take a lot of them. You end up making some.

Michael W. Smith

Is it going to win an Oscar? Probably not.

Brian Blessed

Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

Carroll Shelby

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races

Jamie Redknapp

You want to win things and I am at a club where we have the players to do that.

Baltasar Gracian

Leave your luck while still winning.

Boris Becker

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.

Bill Hybels

Everyone wins when a leader gets better

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Edward Abbey

The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.