Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Leiter

He was a rock star. The little bit of attention other guys or I would usually get would suddenly be zero. He'd be miserable but we'd be left alone.

Ted Fiore

He understands the game, he understands the importance of his own role on the team and he understands the attention that is going to be paid to him. And he is certainly willing, and also capable, of sharing the scoring.

Emily Campbell

I always tell my students that an audience will decide whether or not to listen in the first 10 seconds. So they need an attention getter, to tell a joke or a personal story, or to use a quote.

Colin Campbell

He was very soft, sweet and he gave Diana all the attention she lusted after,

Chris Hardwick

I got more recognized for that commercial (Miller Makes It Right!) than any tournament I won, ... The 1960s was the glamour decade for bowling. We got as much attention and money as any sport. And there were no helmets, so we were easily recognizable and would get stopped everywhere.

Tom Collen

She's battled at times this year just because she's the focus of attention defensively. And we simply haven't done a good job of getting her the ball. I think at times that has frustrated her.

Pokey Chatman

She knows she's drawing the most attention ... But it's not going to change her game.

Frances Dansby

She just happened to be sitting in front of me (in church) a few times. I noticed that the hair on her head looked so pretty, and I called her attention to it. That's how it started things off.

Sandra Lerner

I have a long attention span, and I am also a good scientist, and there are a lot of problems that remain in the organic agricultural movement that the government does not invest in solving.

Bobby Bowden

I want both of 'em practicing with a No. 1 mentality.

Joe Faraldo

This is a reasonable solution. We'll both lose some things through arbitration, but that's what a negotiation is.

Rodney Melville

that the trial is fair both for the defense and the prosecution.

Adam Ereli

That's not a concern, frankly. I think as a result of our discussions with Governor Richardson, I think we both share an interest in seeing North Korea make the right decision with regard to ending its nuclear program and choosing a path of reintegration with the international community.

Adam Ereli

That's not a concern, frankly, ... I think as a result of our discussions with Governor Richardson, I think we both share an interest in seeing North Korea make the right decision with regard to ending its nuclear program and choosing a path of reintegration with the international community.

Larry Kruse

That's just John. And Sean was the catalyst both days.

Trent Green

That's going to be a great test for both sides, ... We take a lot of pride in our run game and they take a lot of pride in their run defense. So that's going to be kind of a marquee matchup in terms of how this game goes.

Trent Green

That's going to be a great test for both sides,

Steve Rixon

That's not to say he can't do that. I'd say you want both of them in your World Cup squad.

Curtis Sumpter

That's what we came here for, ... We wanted to help put Villanova back on the map. We wanted to be a part of something special.

Kelly Mathews

That's why they're No. 1 in the state. We came out hot hitting our jump shots, but we knew they would make their run. Once they get a lead, it's tough to catch them.

Ryan Potulny

That's not at all true. We had the deal started before that announcement even came out. That had nothing to do with it.

Liz Shimek

That's just something that kind of comes with the package. As a freshman, I came in and said one of my rules was to rebound. But that's what it's about here, everyone doing what they can do to win.

Henry Uhegwu

That's how we want to play. We know they can score, and we know we can score. So we just want to play at our pace. Things just came together tonight.

Greg Williams

That Murphy is everything we thought he would be, ... does a good job, but in the end, we came out on top.

Jamie Thompson

You never want to forget where you came from, and for this team, remembering November is a very important thing because we were not doing well, we were not having fun and we were not playing good hockey. To turn it around like we have is very nice, but we still have to remember that in November, we were a terrible hockey team and we have to remember the reasons why we were a terrible hockey team. It's because we weren't doing the little things that we're doing now.

Sepp Blatter

The only way to fight this is to do exactly what we have done when it came to violence. We have to take away the points because it happens in those leagues where the money is sufficient so, even if you gave a fine of $100,000, it would be paid the next day. That does not change the attitude, so you have to go into a sporting sanction.

Ric Garcia

Douglas came out fired up and we couldn't meet their energy level. Nicole had two fouls early and we sent her to the bench. And we struggled with their 1-3-1 (defensive scheme).

Donald Trump

We have a special site, a special location. We have a neighborhood that at first was concerned but now has embraced us for the most part.

Allan Payne

We will have discussions with everyone concerned about the future shape of the IRB series.

Jim Williams

We are working on that, we're concerned about that, and the last thing we want to do is discourage traffic. We've got to come up with solutions that meet people's needs.

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Mark Oaten

What are the kind of words that somebody would use which could then be implied to be incitement? This will be hard legislation to draft.

Joe Aquilante

Whatever we learn on the track, we put into the cars. Everything is evolutionary. We work hard to have the pieces come together.

Bart Szarko

Tony worked so hard in camp. We're hoping he comes back. The timetable says he will. He's a leader.

Mark Dantonio

Tony plays so hard and he is so smart. He is a winner who makes plays and has made himself a starter this spring.

Larry Scott

We've been testing the systems and they have been better than 90 percent accurate, which is better than the human average. We haven't set a hard deadline, but next summer is realistic. We want to make sure it is completely reliable.

Courtney Hill

We tried. We worked hard to get the word out. We did interviews, we did CNN, we went everywhere, but we didn't have any luck.

Fannie Goodwin

We tried to send a message because we heard they had a (tall) player and we were shorter than her. We had to work real hard on defense.

Doug Piquette

We just made way too many mistakes to win the game. But the kids battled hard and competed.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

Alexei Mordashov

My wealth is reflected in the price of Severstal, and the number of shares I have in my possession doesn't have any impact on the company.

Irv DeGraw

I would like to think they can get in the 20 percent range, but with that number of shares it could be difficult.

Bill Gates

I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Roy Keane

You shouldn't have spoken to the players like that. No, you should have.

Ned Colletti

Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot of different criteria in judging players. I think I use, um, esoteric qualitative mathematical review times five. That's one of them.

Jessica Savitch

The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.