Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Robinson

Would you rather get drafted later and play quarterback or get drafted earlier and play quarterback and some other things?

Charles Woodson

It's not too much pressure. That's what we drafted him for. You throw him in early, and you hope that midway through the season, he's playing like he's been there before.

Kevin Williams

The Yankees drafted you in the second round.

Max Starks

This is a team that uses high picks on linemen. When they drafted us, they expected us to be successful. And right now that's apparent.

Rich McKay

The misses are hard to recover from. And the pressure on the player is tremendous. Typically, a player drafted No.1, 2 or 3 is on that team because they weren't very good. Now, everybody is labeling that player as the savior. He's just a rookie. That's not fair.

Jake Delhomme

There is something about guys that either don't get drafted or get drafted late and have success. You really kind of pull for those guys. We were lucky enough to get chances. Kurt Warner is the same way. Marc Bulger and that guy from New England (Tom Brady).

Matt Smith

Getting drafted by these guys was a dream, and now being here is a dream. It's a great feeling.

Willnett Crockett

I expected to go third round or somebody would invite me. I'm just glad we all got drafted. Knowing I got drafted in the second round and being able to go home and play, that's a good thing.

Willnett Crockett

I always thought I would get drafted or somebody would invite me, but just to know that I got drafted in the second round and to be able to go home and play, I think that's a good thing.

Alan Bennett

At eighty things do not occur; they recur.

Barry Corbin

For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.

Jim Waggoner

The percentages say that the day after Christmas, the market goes up. Eighty percent of the time, stocks rise.

Manu Ginobili

We are a team of (13 players) and we lost eight back-to-backs? It can't be that hard. The legs help, but it's in the head, too.

Tim Parmeter

We started off on a spurt, but every time we got up by eight or 10 (points), we let them back into it.

A.J. Jones

We started off all eight together, did some medium turns, then four went over to a jump.

Ron Duchesneau

We spent the first six to eight months of the SOX project figuring out how we were going to do this.

Luis Walter Alvarez

One indicator of Ernest Lawrence's influence is the fact that I am the eighth member of his laboratory staff to receive the highest award that can come to a scientist - the Nobel Prize.

Luis von Ahn

My first computer was a Commodore 64. I got it as a present from my mom when I was eight years old, and all I wanted to do with that computer was play games.

Kevin Quinn

We started the program nine years ago with kids that were just learning to play hockey, so this is a fulfilling day for me and a lot of original parents who helped for the organization. We're extremely proud of these kids, particularly, and for all the people who laid the groundwork.

Robbie Stancil

We started out in a match-up zone. But we've worked and worked and worked on our man defense, and we did an outstanding job with it after the first quarter. I think we got Murdock extremely frustrated, and we kept (Marietta's guards) pretty contained.

Sam Allardyce

Where our finishing was very, very good last weekend it let us down tonight. We really should have put the game away in the first 90 minutes and we haven't done that and have paid a heavy price for it. We are extremely disappointed.

Don Flanagan

We want people to come support us, and I think they're going to see a great game. They are an extremely quick team that plays hard. It should be fun to watch.

Gene Kimmelman

We'll be extremely disappointed if antitrust officials do not require more substantial divestment of assets.

Kevin Norrish

US product markets remain extremely weak at present, with most of that weakness focused in gasoline markets.

Jan Nash

We're doing extremely well ... it's so exciting.

Jim Sweeney

We're extremely glad to get the win, ... but we're still making too many mistakes.

Scott Shockley

We're extremely disappointed that the governor vetoed an important property rights piece of legislation, and we'll work to override the veto.

Kevin Matthews

We struggled with their press in the second quarter and then we gave up way too many baskets in the third. I need to figure out how to teach the girls to handle the press better. But overall, I was encouraged.

Richy Brooks

We are a team that is still trying to find its identity. We are trying to find the right people to put in the right places with the right combination of people that will help us the most, but we are starting to figure that out I believe.

Martina McBride

At the beginning of every week, I like to sit down and figure out what I'm going to make. I probably try at least two new recipes a week. But I have my standbys - jambalaya, meatloaf and mashed potatoes.

Lesli Linka Glatter

I like to really know what every scene is about, what the text is, what the subtext is. Then I figure out how to express that when I'm shooting.

Lee Bermejo

I've wanted to write ever since I've gotten into comics. I wrote little things for myself when I was doing mini-comics and things, before becoming a professional. But I just figure at some point or another, I've got to make the leap. I just have to do it.

Gretchen Rubin

I'm always trying to figure out ways to keep hold of memories. My one-sentence journal, for instance.

John Baldwin

We want to put our mark on the sport and push pairs figure skating to next level.

Derek Hall

We have security in the building. No alarms were sounded. We're trying to figure out what happened there. There was no forced entry, no vandalism.

Ron Beard

When he figures out how incredibly good he is, he'll be unstoppable.

Phil Rosenthal

We want to thank all of you for nine wonderful years.

Antony Garrett Lisi

Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

Betty Comden

Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.

Marcus Giles

It's just a finger. It's not a hamstring or a knee. It's just a finger. I've got nine more.

Drake Bell

'Drake and Josh' was strictly nine to five. We'd go in and know what we were doing, and 'Superhero Movie' was just nuttiness every day because there's a joke every ten seconds.

Alex Rodriguez

I've always said that for a short series, because of Randy, we become more problematic for other teams. But at the same time, you've got to go out and play nine innings.

Mark Eaton

After nine years I think it's time to give someone else the chance.

Pat Hill

I've been here for nine years. Nine years is a long time in one place.

Alain Vigneault

You shouldn't need a carrot. There are eight, nine teams right now that are in a tight pack and we're right up there with them.

The Eagles

Until we prove otherwise, they're simply the premiere 3-A team around here that I know of,

Jonathan Demme

We pretended it was a world premiere concert.

Steve Coogan

I don't go to premieres, unless I'm contractually bound to.