Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Barrera

It is a great opportunity for our players to compete in what should be a fun tournament. Each school will have two teams and play four games each and the winners of the two brackets will play for the tournament championship. Everyone will get a lot of playing time and it is a great way to start off the spring.

Darius Kasparaitis

We want to show that we can compete with the good teams and we can be there and we're (in this position) not by accident. I think tonight's game proved it, that we can play at a high level.

Linda Hill

Our kids have to work doubly hard to compete with schools that require their students to take debate as a class.

Wes Miller

Our goal was to try to compete every game and then try to be there at the end of the year. We now have that chance.

Frank Schade

Over the years, to me at least, you can compete at a pretty high level with out big men. But if you don't have a point guard, it's tough.

Ken Blanchard

Our 'franchises' never talk to each other. They compete with each other and criticize each other. We've got to stop this ridiculous fighting over rituals and regulations.

Robbie Lawler

The past is the past. I'm just here looking to compete and no matter who it's against, I go in to fight hard and do what I have to do.

Brandon Flowers

You can't compete with hip-hop. That doesn't mean I don't want to be as big as a rap star. I do - I'm always competitive. But there's this weird perception of me as someone who's sitting around plotting like a devil. It's not like that.

Kristy Curry

Today really matters. If you want to compete for a Big Ten title, we can't lose today.

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.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Bobby Lamb

We signed 23 last year, and this year we signed 12. This year we were very selective because we were looking at taking one at every position, basically.

Nikola Tesla

The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Octavio Dotel

What I saw today, it made me feel good. It made my work for the last nine months look good. I've been waiting for it.

David Akers

It's not going to be easy, but I think things were encouraging. It's better than what it was last Sunday, by far.

Douglas Conant

Learning to celebrate success is a key component of learning how to win in the market.

Dontrelle Willis

Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.

Mark Martin

I've turned over a new leaf. On TV, Kenny Wallace said I was a pessimist after Charlotte, so I got mad. Now I am so excited about coming back that I just can't stand it. I wish we were starting tomorrow and I'm going to win! That's the new me.

Satchel Paige

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.

Laura Wilkinson

I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.

Jimmy Fallon

Jeb Bush gave a speech yesterday. He had a pretty rough time. He accidentally said that ISIS has 200,000 men instead of 20,000, and then he mispronounced the name of the terrorist group Boko Haram. So if history has taught us anything, Jeb is well on his way to winning the White House.

Katarina Witt

I can't say, 'It doesn't matter if you win or lose.' It's not true. You go in to win.

Bobby Bowden

As good as we were, we didn’t win a National Championship until 1993, mainly because we kept losing to Miami on missed kicks. I used to get mad because nobody else would play Miami. Notre Dame would play them, then drop them. Florida dropped them. Penn State dropped them. We would play Miami and lose by one point on a missed field goal, and it would knock us out of the National Championship. I didn’t want to play them, either, but I had to play them. That’s why I said, When I die, They’ll say, ‘At least he played Miami.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Bobby Cox

This year is different, ... We have 11 for about four.

Alec Baldwin

One generation might like you, then 15 years later the next is responding to somebody else.

Aldous Huxley

It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.

Aldous Huxley

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.

Albert Einstein

I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.